Starting Small.
I'm a believer in starting small. Everything I've achieved has started in with one small step.
After 8 yrs in my dad's socks biz, I had an 'idea' to start an online contests site. I was unsure if it would be a success & hesitant to start working on it. One day, I told my dad about the idea. He smiled, looked at me & said, "Alok, everything starts small. Just try it."
After our successful sale of mobile2win, I wanted to get into online gaming. Dinesh Gopalakrishnan & I started games2win with borrowed games & a URL! I remember we would get 20-30 visitors a day. When we hit 50 visitors, we celebrated. We have 125 million downloads today.
I started Art of Living meditation in 2001. It took me 11 years of 'tapasya' daily before I even met my Guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. Post that meeting, everything changed.
Lessons, takeaways:
- DON'T be obsessed to start with a Bang. You, your passion, a great idea & PLAN is good. Start small.
- Don't care about people joining you. "Jodi Tor Dak Shune Keu Na Ase Tobe Ekla Cholo Re” (If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone) of Tagore is my favourite line on this
- Take your time. You can't grow a Rose Garden in a day. All great things comes to those who wait.
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