Saturday, November 17, 2012

Enthusiasm Killer, Killer Enthusiasm

..was kinda annoyed several days ago by something totally unrelated to work, so I wasn't exactly in a perfect mood>>

With that said, I personally really like how my teammates are hyped about my new start up  RAIKOM (BigData "side project" I "found myself" working on) but with my a fore mentioned attitude I nearly killed such enthusiasm in an occasion on that night.

So I thought, I had to fix that, the most important thing to a start up is not the idea, not the investment; but rather the entrepreneurial spirit or simple the enthusiasm. Idea's change (or rather pivots), money comes eventually but the essence of having your own way is the best part!


To Co-founders...

You two need not to “ask for” anything that you believe that it is appropriate and you feel enthusiastic about. So be assertive. You want something, even if somebody -or everybody- disagrees on initially that shouldn't make you feel down or discouraged.
You think it must be done, reason us into agreeing with you (but don’t be a dictator; Most scary dictators are women by the way! kidding :p). 

........Work should be fun, before anything else!


To fuel your enthusiasm...

...which is believe me, if just one is radiating with enthusiasm "infects" others too! One should work on one or too aspects that he/she is would go "banana's" in excitement beside the actual grunt of building a start-up  which is not always exciting; specially if its the initial incorporation / governmental work!
Basically what would be the most exciting thing that you could be engaged to at work? Got that in mind? Now do it!

True you might not be able to embody that dream for a while, as your just starting now, but who cares! I really love building computers, and I always have a “configuration” of my perfect PC, always update it for fun, and when Its actually time to build one I have a well-rounded plan.  In fact that made me adept enough in building machines I can now configure servers for different kind of usages, I never thought I would need that someday but here I am with a natural "thing" for building machines!


Come at me bro....

And how about this: 2 days ago we met some mentor in a dinner event (YAL GEW ... Google that :p ) and he told us that a start-up should always have multiple added values, ultimately those should also be advantages over competitors too.
Thinking of it as a competition where you are confident that you're going to implement some aspects that you can excel in (even though you might just not recognize those yet). 
Make no mistake, I don't mean being over-confident with an "empty magazine", rather knowing that you still have tricks up your sleeve, which are probably a fruit by your expertise of the start ups concept or perhaps some unfulfilled need that you can address. Now its all about proper execution!

.......Its a challenge, but that’s the cool part!

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Mohammed said...

Wonderfully written. Very motivating.

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