#Averagepreneur- The EQ part of it

Recently, I got an opportunity to interact with few of the brightest founders/investors of the startup ecosystem. Everyone shared how they all faced failures at some or the other point in their journey. But this is in retrospect, when they are successful and their failure is like a medal that motivates everyone. Inspired , I started searching for their real life emotions when they were small/early/making mistakes-how low were they? Am I equally bad/vulnerable? Did they face the same challenges? I really could not find much. That's how I thought to document my journey as an #Averagepreneur when we are very small, vulnerable, making mistakes as a startup and entrepreneur.

As most of the generic knowledge around entrepreneurship- forming A+ team/culture, scaling up etc is available online or accessible through books like Zero to One/Lean startup etc I would not like to touch them. These are great source of wisdom and everyone must read it. I doubt if I have the knowledge or wisdom to help anyone with that, so keeping it for some other decade.

Averagepreneur is mainly the emotional part of an entrepreneur's journey who is average (till successful) and trying hard but yet to make it big. It is not about Harsh Jain of Dream 11 in 2018 or Vijay Sekhar Sharma in 2017 but more about them some 5/10 years back when they were trying hard, getting dejected everyday and were facing the emotional roller coaster. Emotional story of maybe other 90% entrepreneurs who started with VSS and none of us know their name today because they failed. I hope, I am not part of these 90%.

First of these posts (around 5 post series) will be "90% Startups Fail "- I knew before I started but did not "FEEL" the mathematical implication of it.

I will publish one story every fortnight which can be helpful for anyone who plan to startup sometime or just want to casually read the other side of entrepreneurship. I will be very happy if there are more people who would like to share their emotional stories as #averagepreneur. Give a like/comment on this post if you like to get the updates and Linkedin algorithm will take care of it in future.

P.S: Making it a public announcement so that I am under social pressure to publish every alternate week. Also, these are honest stories which may have grammatical/punctuational errors- "Bhawnao ko Samjho", it is acceptable from someone who got 75% in English consistently in 10th/12th and Verbal reasoning section of XAT :)