In 2011, I left my home to a city where i prepped for IIT JEE. I eventually didn’t appear in the examination and became a software engineer with a regular tier 3 college.
I never had any interest in coming back to village.
You may ask, why a hate for this!
It’s not really hate but it’s more towards things I want to do in my life.
I like to be with high quality people and don’t like to be reminded reminded where I came from.
I want to see forward and walk towards my goal and coming back to village and meeting everyone is not one among them.
It’s California, Silicon Valley. That’s where I belong. I feel that’s the place where I will be able to do things I want to achieve. That’s where I can explore full potential of MixCommerce. The SaaS company I a building in Marketing and Sales space.
I continued to work for 8 years.
Most of the years, I didn’t consider to work. I tried making enough revenue to make myself survive while not loosing the focus.
There was a moment when I was making 2.2L per month and I was shouting “Why we are having this money in bank account, Let’s diversify.”.
We did diversify and started HiCoder, An education and technology company where students that are good enough can learn applied software engineering and pay us after getting job.
We ran 2 batches and realised it’s not a good business model but it’s more of social cause. The idea was not scalable and it had some core issues that were not in our hands. We exited that and I went Bangalore for the next expedious project.
I appled for YC and got rejected. Haaah, They asked the college name and of course I was from tier 3 college. LOL. I wish i had IIT Degree to show YC, Just kidding.
I pursued the idea anyway. I am currently executing.
It has been 2 years, We have 18 products, in the google sheet. 2 products in Beta and I am now working with a European company to fund it.
I am not considering to work with India clients (Businesses or Individuals) as they are often low paid, projects don’t complete in time and clients suck blood out of my engineers, designers and content writer (yes, I have a team to execute the project).
A lot of entrepreneurs schedule meeting with me to talk and discuss their Idea but I am cancelling more of them. I am famous, on Google. LOL
People find me searching on google “Status resources in Bangalore” and they try connecting me. A lot of entrepreneurs connect me and try to meet me. I really don’t want spend a lot of hours listening them so I ask them to mail the questions and context and most of the don’t.
Simple Logic: If they don’t have enough patience and resources to write a detailed mail, I don’t have time to listen to their idea.
To be honest, I don’t get enough time and it takes good amount of time to be mentally balanced and keep focused.
Every person I meet takes 1.5 hours on average and the conversation goes intense. After intense conversation it takes another hour to cool down and focus on work.
So, I prefer to talk important stuff on email. (Inspired by Mark Cuban from Shark Tank US)
Anyway, Let’s come back to the topicabout my visit to the village after 8 years.
I didn’t visit the village because of mindset. A strong mindset requires protection from other bad vibes and villages, at least mine doesn’t have the right mindset.
It’s quite rare to find intellectual. The problem was if I visit and meet people, they will generally talk their stuff, appreciate low grade shit and I don’t want to be in that atmoshphere,
My mindset has grown by being with right people, forcing myself to be spend most of my time with them and automatically becoming their average.
I am sure you might have heard “You are 1/5 of 5 people most”. I do follow that quite that.
Once in a while I analyze myself and check if I haven been living among average people, if I do then I consider to push myself to higher levels.
One thing to note is that people who are currently smart are necessirity destined to be smart post 5 years. I look for those opportunities and push myself to higher extent.
People that are higher level can be found in events, online video or best among all in a better city.
For me, Bangalore has been a decent place for 2 years but now I am getting bored of meeting average entrepreneur or seasonpreneurs, motivatedpreneurs. Motivatedpreneurs is someone who got motivated and quit job without having a clear plan and has higher chances of getting back to job.
I have a lot talked with the average VCs and VC partners, I didn’t find any of them interesting. Neither for funding nor for advice.
Warning: They are often talkative, superior in terms of attitude and often have a very poor mindset in term of funding a startup/business. Yep, I am talking about VCs in Bangalore.
So I have been living among a lot of average entrepreneurs and average VCs. I want to do better.
I want to live among entrepreneurs who have “been there, done that”. I want to now avoid average entrepreneurs and VCs.
I want to talk with entrepreneurs that are
- Profitable
- Wise and clear about business
- Has capacity to execute
I want to meet VCs who have funded startups with at least 5M USD and wise enough to speak only when they understand the industry or let the experts execute. I have a lot of respect to their position but I have also seem a lot of businesses dying because they were VC funded and didn’t make to the market because they blitzscaled too early and lost all the money and faced early death.
If you want to understand this more then you should watch Silicon Valley or Halt and Catch Fire.
Once again, let’s come back to the topic village.
Pre B.tech, I lived in a city for one year and in childhood I lived for another year. I guess. I faced a lot of issues and partiality from relatives. It felt too bad while it was happening to me but then when I see today, I understand that the reason why my behaviour is generally good towards everyone because the childhood has shown me result of that.
I guess it proves the saying “Everything happens for a reason”, LOL! I am not sure about that TBH.
One thing is sure, you take shit when things aren’t in your control, but the moment you get control of your live in your hand, stop taking shit and live the way you want to.
Anyway… The next game is either or them
- Go to Silicon Valley, raise fund and build MixCommerce.
- Remain bootstrapped, do shit with consulting/freelancing/part time roles/ and fund the team to grow mixcommecre.
The decision is clear than
- I will be applying for US business visa (10 Years)
- Focus on a single consulting that pays decent than working on multiple projects
- Focus on MixCertificate, It’s feature complition, page creation for SEO, page maturity
- Focus on MixCommerce ecosystem
- Build mini products/SEO focused products by with side interns (SWOT, Email Signature, Presentation Lead Generator, SEO tool with KE API, Marketing ROI Calculator, Loss of Conversion due to Page Speed Calculator, Loss of Conversion due to Slow Landing Page Convertor. Backlink tracker and backlink anchor tracker at 9.99/month).
- Get the MixCertificate webpage content and blog original content done
- After MixCertificate V1 feature is completed, run facebook ads immediately and test with real customers
