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3 Books I Wish I’d Read Before I Launched My Startup
After failing, I knew what didn’t work. After reading these, I learned what could’ve.
It was not so long ago. I was 26 and miserable. By the time, I had already two unsuccessful job accounts and two devastating business failures.
What did I lose? Roughly $4000, friends, loved ones, and four years of my life. It could be different. I could have prevented all that — only if I knew a few things.
Coming from an Indian lower-middle-class family, my relationship with money had always been, well, complicated. Though my father is a small-scale business owner, his conception of money and entrepreneurship has never been that rich. As a result, despite flourishing well in the early 2000s, we had no sense of security.
The apple didn’t fall far from the tree, either. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. Not because I loved it or knew anything about it. No. I was as disconnected from my father’s business as virtue signaling celebs from reality. Instead, it was because I despised the life of an employee. Hustling 9 to 5, six days a week? Nah, I deserved better than that. I WAS better than that.
Doesn’t make any sense. Does it? Trust me; at the time, it seemed very sensible to my ‘sharp’ mind.
