Each time I read about entrepreneurship, I wonder if perhaps the idea may be oversold. The road to entrepreneurship is a hard one. It is similar to the stories of people winning a lottery. We are only aware of the entrepreneurs who have succeeded in life and made it big. However, the harsh reality is … Read more
A time of crisis: We all have this situation – the crisis quote focuses on what we make out of it, how to make the best of the situation we are presented with.
Failures are hard to deal with. It is worse when you start worrying about your emotional connections to an outcome. The results will do enough to hurt us and make us feel sad. If we start worrying about letting ourselves or others down and move into the rabbit hole of an emotional conundrum, there’s no hope for success.
This article relates to the product development journey in an early stage startup. You can easily extend this to innovative developments in product where you’re focusing on agile developments with continuous feedback. However, make sure that you establish the ground rules between production code and experimental developments so that people know the value of a beta.
This discussion is around Dhirubhai Ambani’s quote “Ideas are no one’s monopoly, Think Big, Think Fast and Think Ahead”. The beauty of this quote is in challenging a concept of ideas winning the world. It tackles the notions of talent vs hard work, action vs words and more of these misconceptions which stand in the way of your success. Join our discussion with your comments and thoughts below.