Learnings of a 20 year old building successful
startups without external capital.
Thousands of days and nights coding, building the product, sharing it with my network and reiterating the process again and again continuously.
Many times crossed the 100 hour work week mark just to stay afloat and build the right thing faster.
Keeping calm and waiting for the right person to come by. Not every person is a customer.
Believing in data, research, user feedback and personal guts to build my startups.
Ignoring naysayers and negative people daily, and show them the success of my work instead of wasting time arguing.
Best fact, now all my products are used by 100s to 1000s of people daily, organically.
I bootstrapped and never took external capital at least till now,
because that would've changed the power dynamic, and might've prevented me from becoming profitable. I wanted control in my hand. Hence, I invested my own time & money. P.S. I received several term sheets from investors anyways.
I sacrificed going out, partying, watching movies, wasting time on leisure activities and sorting my priorities very clearly. Only work.
Time was limited and I had a future in the past.
I had to build it the way I wanted.
Hence, I made the choices purely based on long term impact and logic instead of personal satisfaction or self pleasurable emotions.
I believed in these 3 to transform my way of thinking: It all starts with the basics
No abusive language, No bad thoughts, No bad sights.
I started staying close to the right people who thought clearly and made the right choices in life.
I left all those who didn't have any future and were basically homeless according to the habits today.
I made efforts to connect to the right people and talk with them to gain the right mindset.
I excercise almost daily, sometimes things get skipped as I'm still trying to figure things out.
#entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #young #youth #students #college #university #founder #founders #journey #learning #educate #GrowthMindset #hardwork #story #sacrifice
startups without external capital.
Thousands of days and nights coding, building the product, sharing it with my network and reiterating the process again and again continuously.
Many times crossed the 100 hour work week mark just to stay afloat and build the right thing faster.
Keeping calm and waiting for the right person to come by. Not every person is a customer.
Believing in data, research, user feedback and personal guts to build my startups.
Ignoring naysayers and negative people daily, and show them the success of my work instead of wasting time arguing.
Best fact, now all my products are used by 100s to 1000s of people daily, organically.
I bootstrapped and never took external capital at least till now,
because that would've changed the power dynamic, and might've prevented me from becoming profitable. I wanted control in my hand. Hence, I invested my own time & money. P.S. I received several term sheets from investors anyways.
I sacrificed going out, partying, watching movies, wasting time on leisure activities and sorting my priorities very clearly. Only work.
Time was limited and I had a future in the past.
I had to build it the way I wanted.
Hence, I made the choices purely based on long term impact and logic instead of personal satisfaction or self pleasurable emotions.
I believed in these 3 to transform my way of thinking: It all starts with the basics
No abusive language, No bad thoughts, No bad sights.
I started staying close to the right people who thought clearly and made the right choices in life.
I left all those who didn't have any future and were basically homeless according to the habits today.
I made efforts to connect to the right people and talk with them to gain the right mindset.
I excercise almost daily, sometimes things get skipped as I'm still trying to figure things out.
#entrepreneur #entrepreneurship #young #youth #students #college #university #founder #founders #journey #learning #educate #GrowthMindset #hardwork #story #sacrifice
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