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- 13 Dec, 2025 *
We’re fairly small, and have a long way to go, but here are some things I’ve learnt this year.
- Reframe projects as a who? question rather than how? question. Who will be able to solve this? Who do we need to hire? Who do we ask for help? and followed by how can we incentivise them to join hands with us.
- Everything is a startup is a bandwidth problem; and thus in most parts a cashflow problem. If you have bandwidth, there is always one more client to talk to, one more candidate to interview and one more project to deliver. Not having bandwidth is definitely a problem of not solving things creatively or not delegating enough or not forming p…
- 13 Dec, 2025 *
We’re fairly small, and have a long way to go, but here are some things I’ve learnt this year.
- Reframe projects as a who? question rather than how? question. Who will be able to solve this? Who do we need to hire? Who do we ask for help? and followed by how can we incentivise them to join hands with us.
- Everything is a startup is a bandwidth problem; and thus in most parts a cashflow problem. If you have bandwidth, there is always one more client to talk to, one more candidate to interview and one more project to deliver. Not having bandwidth is definitely a problem of not solving things creatively or not delegating enough or not forming partnerships.
- If there is no one telling you what to do, it’s very easy to be penny wise pound foolish while appearing busy at work. A honest reflection will tell you if you are doing the most important thing or not. Be aware when you find yourself trying to save days but waste months or years.
- It’s inevitable that the firm adopts the speed / ambition / culture of the founders (and founding team). Important to hold yourself radically accountable to yourself and others.
- It’s all about packaging. Fasting is also just a missed meal.
- Small outcomes can be attributed to luck, but large outcomes have very strong correlation to merit, extremely large outcomes again have very strong luck component. Compare among companies / people in similar sectors / job and you will see the correlation with merit. So if you are not succeeding enough, likely that you don’t work as hard, or sacrifice enough, or are not willing to do emotionally uncomfortable things.
- It’s very hard to hold strong positioning between two things — A and B. Either you are A or you are B, nothing in between is perceivable.
- Beyond a certain size / revenue, companies are very complex to understand. Any simplistic reduction of a company for the sake of comparison (financial or otherwise), is bound to miss out on nuances of why they are able to make a sell, how their customers perceive them, why is talent attracted etc. Even insiders of an industry will find it difficult to understand a company in a short period.