Some notes from my entrepreneurship career

1. You need to tell yourself you want to work for your ideas.
2. Get some idea that’s great and shows you a projection of good revenue.
3. You are in a way to find your team and you found some to start with. They are your partners with different set of working behavior. But they are really great.
4. You think your ideas are great. That’s true. All most all agrees. But nobody wants to pay you for that.
5. You found you are not able to tell your client that your solution for them actually worth some money & hours of great labor. But your clients don’t think so. There are always one to tell them that you are really really bad.
6. After working for some more time on that concept, you really think it is not going to workout, you really need something more attractive.
7. Your partners are in doubt as you. You put and mixup all your ideas.
8. You really got bunch of ideas and work on each of them.
9. You meet a lot of other corporate biggies who really appreciate you and your work and express they want to help you, if you need any.
10. You really get some of the good VC funding option. But you feel it is not you cup of tea and you really do not need it.
11. But in spite all these good things, you realize that your actual business is going down. You are really frustrated.
12. Your and your partners’ family put a lot of pressure to actually get out of this and do some other job. you use immense energy to make them agree to your passion.
13. Some of you think you should do some part time job to at least have some steady income.
14. You suddenly get a lot of inquiries for your business.
15. But time and again it didn’t happen or was getting late, because your prospect has shut down his business or fell ill or got through an accident. You started blaming your luck.
16. But you always read a lot of inspirational stories of great leaders and entrepreneurs. You feel energetic. I can do. It’ll surely happen. All I need is push it a little bit harder.
17. Then suddenly you realize, you should provide just as much as your client asked you. Not more than that, just because you think it is going to help your client. You should suggest only a bit extra. If they agree, charge a minimal, don’t give it for free. Charges may be reduced, but do not give it free, because your time worth it.
18. Gradually you feel that you are a known face to all. People are talking about you. They are interested to take your services. They pay you money.
19. You really pushed your marketing effort harder. Your every process does marketing for yourselves. And you are amazed to see great talents are interested to work with you, at least on part-time basis.
20. Then you realized that you are now successful business because you stick to a single idea for almost two or more years. You learned a lot about how to run this business. People are really admiring you because they think you are successful and doing a business for almost 2 years.
21. Then suddenly you think about all those moments, you thought you should quit.

These are those few key experiences I’d been through my journey as an entrepreneur. A lot of these can match with your journey. All I’ve to say is any idea can be successful, despite of huge competition. Only you need to stick to your idea for that little more time and put efforts after efforts.

# I’ll love to hear your stories also. Please comment below.

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