Myths of Starting Up, Busted here

Has the last love story been written? I'm always a sucker for these entrepreneur-psyche-yourself-up stories. ABDC: Always be double checkin'.

Bhavin, I am not a Novelty Writer. I am an entrepreneur attempting to share my experiences. There is no 'sales' pitch in the numbering of the blog

Well, I have raised venture capital 7 times for 4 start up's. 2 of these companies were acquired - by the Walt Disney Company and Norwest Venture Capital. My learnings in all of these are that the moment Value seems to start building, your colleagues, your partners, the industry gets a whiff and VC's start calling.

In none of my 7 raises did I have to do door to door selling.

When I did, I never raised money!

I think this policy goes agains human nature. Numbers are a great mnemonic aid.

I used to study for math tests in college and the last thing I would do is remember the number of properties in a definition of things, e.g. a field, which I think numbered eleven. That way if I was asked to check whether some structure was a field I would know if all the properties were exhausted or not without having to recall them all. You can call that a lowbrow way to study for a math test, but it worked great for me.

Why deny to the entrepreneur what you give willingly to the Platonist? Titles are intended to mainly to attract interest. You can't fit an argument in there any way you try. The Seven-Fold Path, the Ten Commandments, etc. were named so to command attention. Let a hundred flowers bloom under a thousand points of light.

Got it. Thanks.

I've never tried this, but a common trick among lucid dreamers while they're training themselves is to drink a lot of water before bed. The idea behind this is to associate the feeling of needing to pee with dreaming.

So any time you feel like you need to use a bathroom, do a reality check to see if you're awake or not.