Tips for Startup Success: Mentorship, Perseverance, Focus

We all know that having— founding a company and then building it to scale is hard, but perseverance goes a long way. Focus goes a long way. And so a lot of the times what happens is that founders try to do things by themselves for way too long. And that's when you usually find, you know, lack of motivation, being demotivated because things are not working, it's not going fast enough, yada yada yada. I think that At the beginning, it is actually very beneficial for you to start hooking up with mentors and people. It doesn't have to be paid because usually you're tight on money in the beginning, but looking at people who can actually help you get through certain stages. And it could be, you know, somebody who's ahead of you at a time. You know, if you're not in a founder institute program, you know, look it up. I think there are so many ways that you can leverage, you know, the the knowledge that you can surround yourself with and tap into that. Because I, for many a times, you know, when I felt like giving up or things are not working, and then I just called somebody and told them, and they're like, why don't you— and they're like, oh, I never thought about that. And that really helps you, you know, for another month or two. And so that I would suggest, you know, going, because it's really not a sprint, you know, it's a marathon. It, you know, overnight success is not a thing. And so we think it's overnight, but when you look back into the stories of, you know, these founders that are successful, firstly, you'll see that they started, you know, a long time ago. And then, you know, when they really decided to focus, you know, things happened. And also remember that a lot of these startups that you see on the news may not be here the next 5 years. And so you need to look at, you know, your long-term goals and focus on that and try to just get closer by any means necessary every day.