Being An Entrepreneur…

You’ll be disoriented all day

I hardly sleep much these days and keep forgetting everything else but for Mammoth and my family. My extended family (huge in India), friends have started giving me sh*t and I sometimes feel really guilty about not talking/ spending much time with them.

You’ll become a Zombie

Since majority of my team is in US, you’ll see me slogging every morning till 3:30 or so. My mom thinks I have dark circle under my eyes (and I used to think these things only happen to women).

You’ll fail often

There are often days, when we look analytics and different funnels and realize the best sign-up flow we thought of, didn’t really work. Infact conversion went down. Holy F*ck ! What were we smoking when we did this? On other days, after sending out multiple emails to tech bloggers and magazines, none of them revert. And the sense of failure and helplessness again creeps in.

You won’t earn anything (monetarily) in the next few months

 The text alert on the phone on the 28th of every month (my salary got credited, yippee); which gave me so much pleasure and multiple reasons to go out, drink, party; has stopped. I don’t get a salary and already feel like a retired person (who’ll possibly never get another salary).

You’ll do stuff that you don’t like

I don’t know many designers who like to code, look at sign funnels and conversion charts. I also don’t know many designers who have to test out features, write to bloggers, make a sales pitch. Why me?

But !!!