Once upon a time in 2013, I quit my job as a glorified developer in a startup to start up on my own. I assembled my dream team and created AlterSense. AlterSense taught me many things and is still teaching me new things everyday.
Well the dream team and the product we created failed. So I along with the most active member of my dream team we started the new AlterSense. We started creating another awesome product. Which also failed to reach an minimum viable product.
As time passed the team broke and I decided to call it quits and continue my life as an IT slave. That lead me to meet some guys who wanted to develop an ambitious product, which needed a huge workforce to realize. We failed in obtaining any investment for that idea and we shelved it.
We then did a couple of services to raise funds and with it we started a working on another original idea. Which hit the market two months ago and is still struggling hard to reach hundred downloads.
The product hit the market and I thought that I could apply what all I have read and learnt so far into it and guide it towards success. I now feel silly that I thought so poorly and planned so ineptly.
The market hit us with a million bullets and bombs that we were not shielded for. They took heavy toll on us and our sprint collapsed and we are stumbling. The essence is that we are still moving forward but in a slow pace and we will, borrowing from Elon Musk, keep on moving forward till we are totally incapacitated.
Entrepreneurship, to me, is like addiction to gambling. Once you start losing you get this strong urge to keep on playing till you get back everything you have lost and gain more.
Stumbling forward till I make that my own dent in the universe.
Well the dream team and the product we created failed. So I along with the most active member of my dream team we started the new AlterSense. We started creating another awesome product. Which also failed to reach an minimum viable product.
As time passed the team broke and I decided to call it quits and continue my life as an IT slave. That lead me to meet some guys who wanted to develop an ambitious product, which needed a huge workforce to realize. We failed in obtaining any investment for that idea and we shelved it.
We then did a couple of services to raise funds and with it we started a working on another original idea. Which hit the market two months ago and is still struggling hard to reach hundred downloads.
The product hit the market and I thought that I could apply what all I have read and learnt so far into it and guide it towards success. I now feel silly that I thought so poorly and planned so ineptly.
The market hit us with a million bullets and bombs that we were not shielded for. They took heavy toll on us and our sprint collapsed and we are stumbling. The essence is that we are still moving forward but in a slow pace and we will, borrowing from Elon Musk, keep on moving forward till we are totally incapacitated.
Entrepreneurship, to me, is like addiction to gambling. Once you start losing you get this strong urge to keep on playing till you get back everything you have lost and gain more.
Stumbling forward till I make that my own dent in the universe.
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