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Six out of Six

That is the score of the sales effort so far. :-))

And with every client, we have just understood our scope even better, and learnt so much about what we can do.

So while yesterday morning started with a very low feeling, as I felt nothing was going right, and everything was just an illusion; it ended with a high, where we could see real future... and a BIG opportunity.

Life has suddenly got a little busy. It can't get better... or can it?

Learning through talking!!

The beauty about talking your idea though people is that you learn so much more about what you intend to do.

So I got all decked up for the meeting... business formals et al (though had to do away with the tie coz Ravi was in business casuals). Met two middle aged men... maybe in their mid to late thirties. Initially, their attitude was neutral... it was like - lets see what these guys have. As we took them through what we do... and pulled up one anecdote after another, their eyes widened... Those anecdotes that we came up with... some of them even surprised us. {Ravi was at his creative best today :-).} We got to know so much more about what we are doing today. Really, every customer meeting has been a revelation... not because we have got any specific input on what we could do, more because, as we try to explain what we are doing, we just come up with cool shit - that makes the picture of what we are doing even clearer (ofcourse to us)!!

They seemed sold on what we are doing... and promised to get back to us with a plan for taking this forward. Loved it!!

The more I am getting into this, the more confident I am getting of the opportunity and our ability to pull this off. But above all, just the process... the feeling of living these moments... they are worth any and everything I could otherwise make or do.

The sheer uncertainty of not knowing what will happen tomorrow has a thrill of its own. Each day you wake up not knowing what state of mind you will sleep in. For that matter, even when I go to sleep at night, I do not know what new surprises life has in store for me for the following day. So, as of now, I am living by the day... day by day :-)

Cheers!!

Early days...

I met Ravi at ISB. I was just about aware of him till the end of core terms even though we were in the same section. However, a certain entity called Shivani got us together for a certain ELP (ISB's answer to summer internship :-p) with a certain Ajay Shah who was in the Economic Council of the Ministry of Finance.

Needless to say, the ELP went nowhere. But Ravi and I became good friends, and we spent a lot of time at the Atrium talking ideas till wee hours in the morning... once in a while joined by intellectuals, some of who happened to be big shot professors in leading schools across the globe.

The last two months at ISB were spent coming up with ideas on different things we could start out with. We did come up with some really cool ideas... but never really went ahead with anything. Looking back I realize the reason why we could not start out then. We lacked the attitude, and were too comfortable with our lives to do anything, leave alone start out - and we said, we did not have a 'good' idea. You do not need an idea to start out. You can start doing what hundreds of others are doing and still make it big. Google wasn't the first search engine. Mittal wasn’t the first guy to make steel. Every area, no matter how saturated we think it is, has an opportunity. An opportunity to innovate and make a difference, and leave your mark.

So entrepreneurship is more about attitude than aptitude. There will always be a reason for not starting out... as someone once told me while I was preparing for IITJEE, in the end you will either have results... or a reason! You make the choice.

I hope to capture 'our' story through my eyes and keep a log of the highs and lows of starting out through this blog.

Cheers to a new beginning!