Anything you do, studying in a college, playing in the mud, doing hard paying job or flirting with your girlfriend.. every job has lots of funny and emotional moments. But when we talk about start-up entrepreneur, things look funny as its all opposite of what the world thinks.

Considering about start-ups (referred here as ‘We’), here are the few facts gathered from few start-up friends and vheeds:

1) We pay salary, but don’t take any.

All the cash that comes in flows in paying employees salary, scaling up our servers and making the product super cool. Months or sometimes years get passed when founders are not taking a penny into their pocket. Thanks to our friends and family who bare all our personal expenses and preventing us from bankruptcy.

 

2) Talk about millions and billions when we even don’t have thousands.

• “Facebook bought Instagram for billion dollars? You know dude, Instagram is cool, but they didn’t even have a business model.”
• “I don’t understand mate, why investors are dumping millions and millions in Flipkart as they are not making any profit yet.”

Hell lot of conversations involves millions and billions, but everything pauses when we see an alert email for our credit card’s second month due.

 

3) Business Plan Document. Business Plan, What?

When filing for incubation or acceleration program or showing demo pitches to investor, after answering all the pre requisites in a form, there was always an attachment field “Submit Your Business Plan Document [BPD], Bang, TRAPPED! It was too complex than our 20 mark university question.

 

4) Talking about Equity and ESOP with others.

Every time we speak about shares and equity with our any friend, they used to give us a weird look like some zombies from other planets are talking to them.

 

5) Lot of Biographies

Hell lot of! We read biographies right from Steve Jobs to Narayana Murthy to Gurbaksh Chahal to Varun agarwal. Although we never studied our college text books with this interest in a whole semester but reading biographies are like enjoying with your girlfriend in dark night. I personally recommend DREAM (Gurbaksh Chahal) and How I Braved Anu Aunty and co-founded a million dollar company (Varun agarwal).

 

6) Felt comfortable with a laptop rather than a pillow when we sleep.

Who told only an expensive mattress and couch can get you good sleep? Still we are not sure how many nights that we slept near our laptops.

 

7) We drive without destination.

Whenever we lose our mind or out of patience, we used to go for a long walk. After some 40 to 50 minutes of the walk we will be out of limbo and realize that we are almost out of town. The result: Mind relaxed and Ready to go for the kill.

 

8) Networking, Networking & Networking .

We will meet a lot of people in a week on the name of networking but when it comes to meeting any girl or acquittance, we doesn’t have time. So unless someone have a great Business idea or you know a VC, it’s hard to catch us on weekends. You will find pictures of ours with people from different companies and won’t be able to attend the meeting. Even if you do attend the meeting, it will be boring. As we love discussing on business plans and getting excited about its execution strategies.

 

9) We motivate others even we hadn’t started up(mine case) or failed.

We always talk about entrepreneurship with everyone even we are in stealth mode and we know that other guy is thinking hell about ourself. But who cares, we live our passion.

 

10) Mid 20’s, young and Entrepreneurs too but we don’t have a girlfriend.

I didn’t get that its only mine case or of any other start-up. Mystery remains unsolved. Still we can’t figure out the reason or able to find the root cause for this world’s biggest problem. One of my friend even tried a poetic approach, but we guess nowadays girls are not recognizing the talent. What, want to read that poem?

Alright, here you go.
“You are CSS to my HTML, and my BODY is incomplete without your SCRIPT”

Wow! How romantic he is, come on my developer give me a hug!

Moreover, I recommend you to read my previous post why-dating-an-entrepreneur-is-a-bad-idea for clearing this point.