Saturday, December 06, 2025 | 03:50 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Have you royally ruined up your start-up? Here are lessons to learn

Never ever think that you've nailed it

Image
premium

Shival Gupta | Tech in Asia
The previous month turned my whole belief system on its head. I realized that I had never been so wrong in my entire life. It was a rare incident of reflection that will stay with me forever.

“Make the car run before racing it on a race track.”

Vijay Anand of The Startup Centre gave me this brilliant piece of advice when I just started Zeading in August 2016. Because of my tragic influence on myself, I chose to unconsciously ignore it and, worse, gravely misunderstand it. I had already failed spectacularly working on my previous startup three years back while I