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+ Stopped newspaper which costs just Rs. 165/- per month
why ? because my kid used to ask me “Cheese Cube” everyday while returning from school which cost Rs. 10/- per piece. So I thought if I discontinue newspaper it would help me take out around 50% of the monthly cheese cost. Obviously I don’t want my kid to suffer because of my craziness.

+ Asked car/ bike cleaning guy to discontinue which costs just Rs. 200/- per month
apart from saving money one other reason was he was not doing it properly and then i though i can clean it myself whenever needed.

+ Haven’t purchased any new cloth for myself and for my wife since last 1+ year. Somehow managing wearing same old clothes again and again and keeping the best out of those for ‘meetings’

+ Thought of selling my car

+ No outing … no vacation .. whole family is suffering

+ Looking at wife’s face (and wasn’t able to give her anything) when she look at facebook photographs of her friends who went to vacations, birthday parties, etc.

+ Kid ask for accompanying him for swimming … and i say, “after funding i will promise i will join you”. Once I was going to meet to a possible investor … kid asked me …. now will you join me ?

+ Very small incidence happened recently. I asked my wife lets go for “paani poori” … She loves a lot …. But said, lets wait for few more days.

+ Wife supporting a lot … otherwise it is just not possible at any cost

I have a startup and things have started working well after I decided to move out of job.

Being a first time entrepreneur I may be thinking in wrong direction or may not at all looking at some bigger picture or may be ignoring something which is very basic but important.

Hence I think a mentor can play a role here.

So my question here is, how do I find out a mentor ? Or rather, how do i “choose” a mentor ?

Does getting incubated helps (in India) ? If yes, again, how do I choose one ?

I want to share something about someone

Right time to share because otherwise people will think I am making stories

It started in his early days. He was a kid.

He was in 5th standard when he started his first venture. During summer vacation he started a comic library. He used the terrace to display all the comics and maintained a register to keep a note about all users.

2nd thing he tried when he was in graduation. He got in touch with someone in Singapore and wanted to sell a hardware device which was supposed to protect data. But because he didn’t got any support from family he was unable to actually get into that. Why family didn’t supported is a different story.

3rd was after his first job and was related to mobile value added services (VAS)/ game development. Without any experience/ background in business he got in touch with very senior guys in telecom domain. I think that was a good achievement.

And then Microsoft came into picture and rest is what everyone knows.

This guy is Ruchit

Co/Founder of eventNu & 9slides

So what I wanted to say is, the entrepreneur bug is within since childhood.

Be the entrepreneurship wins.

All the best.

Early stage startups usually do not have enough funds to offer to experienced guys and hence working with interns make sense to some extent.

On the other hand, for interns it make sense because they get first hand experience of real world that can help them when they complete their studies and move out of their colleges.

So its a a win-win situation.

But working with interns could be very challenging. Its important that they properly understand the objective, importance and are also as excited as the founders are.

I happened to read a post here and found following interesting points:

# Get Them Excited
# Get Them Doing Real Work
# Give Them Instant Feedback
# Make Them Feel Awesome

Thanks to Benjamin Pollack who shared his thoughts.

back again after a looooong gap

hope to write something soon

much awaited site SakshamGarg is now launched

i always wanted to catch various moments related to my kid. was doing same for some time and now finally got some time to launch it.

i hope Saksham will like this (obviously once he starts understanding all these things)