A checklist for every 'startupper' ...

4 or 5 things which I keep on reminding myself...
On the things you do ...


http://youtu.be/ZjcgggYsXvU

 On the importance of hiring A+ players...
And a word of mouth advice on the importance of setting monthly targets and constantly following it up ...
and last but not least the following quote ... " The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. They are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. "

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dots getting connected ????

When I resigned my day job , I had absolutely no clue as what I was going to do...Now as I am on the verge of making 4 others to resign their 'high' paying jobs , I doubt whether the dots are getting connected...

'thotz..' :)

Just read this somewhere -- "Failure is when you give up, everything else is only a difficult situation".. 

Neither have I entered a difficult situation , nor have I started ( let alone think about failure ).Just noting down a powerful statement which I came across.

When I announced my decision to resign , and go wandering in the uncharted territories , one of my colleagues advised me not to hesitate to get back if things did not go well...And my reply was 'May die out of hunger , but there won't be a turning back.' . To be frank, it was rather a casual statement and was not a much thought one..But the power of those words still captivates me and comes to my mind every time I think about a risky idea..



The words are at times so powerful to drive your thoughts  , of course only if you care to be honest to it..The other occasion when I had a similar experience was during a casual talk with one my friends - I casually remarked -If it all there would be a second company in my career , it would be mine. And perhaps that sentence, which might have come straight from the heart , which might not have had much rational processing , helped me incredibly  to decide to put in my paper.

This has been a strategy which I have been using quite well...to blabber about things which you doubt you would do , normally things that you know that you have the least chance of making up your mind to try it out...and people come back reminding you about those , and it gives an incredible push to your motivation levels..