Gyaan Sutra

Anoop Radhakrishnan, writes, rather rants about his experiences as an entrepreneur. He writes

An important element or characteristic for starting up is the ability to accept and adapt to extremes. You must be comfortable with the possiblity of stupendous success and the possiblity of festering failure…you must be able to handle both. The latter may be easier to handle than the former for the entrepreneur. Success and growth is the tougher to handle…because then you evolve from being an entrepreneur to an administrator. You have to evolve from being Brahma to Vishnu..from creator to preserver.

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There is one thing which always comes to mind when I read a rant from an entrepreneur. Though I can’t remember where I read it, but it went something like this. Every entrepreneur should always remember that all the time you are competing with somebody who is more productive, more efficient, more intelligent, more experienced than you are, and no matter how good you get, there will be people like that. And every day that I spend sitting idle, that person is still working…