Saturday, 7 October 2006
Cake making and early stage startup.
When you start the task of making the cake, a few people are willing to help. They claim it's not as fun as doing the other things they could in the meantime.
When the cake is ready, smells and appears appealing, however, irrespective of what they had done while the cake was being made, they want in for a piece of it.
Similarly, while starting a company, everyone you need to do the task shies away -- as if you are begging them to do you a favor. However, when you prove the model, and there's enough money for everyone to pay their mortgages, everyone wants to see how they can join-in the party to have the fun with the green.
Lesson: Everyone wants to see the proof of what's in it for them.
- Kaleem Aziz.
When the cake is ready, smells and appears appealing, however, irrespective of what they had done while the cake was being made, they want in for a piece of it.
Similarly, while starting a company, everyone you need to do the task shies away -- as if you are begging them to do you a favor. However, when you prove the model, and there's enough money for everyone to pay their mortgages, everyone wants to see how they can join-in the party to have the fun with the green.
Lesson: Everyone wants to see the proof of what's in it for them.
- Kaleem Aziz.
