‘Sugar and Spice and Everything that’s not so nice’- A book that reflects upon a Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey of Start-Ups: Authored by G. Ramachandran
For those who say success breeds contentment I may be the anomaly that
just got added to their list of discoveries.
Plush corporate corridors, expensive suits, jet setting across
the world in five-star comfort and luxury, I had it all. But had I reached my
destination, was the question that plagued me then. If this was what people
aspired for, why was I not engulfed with happiness,elation and the desire to
rest on my laurels?
While people regaled in
the word success and all that it entailed, life for me proved to be a bundle of
contradictions. It gave me a harsh jolt when I was at the very pinnacle of
success, leaving me vulnerable and reactive.
What was it about the success that lashed out at me and shook me and never allowed me to rest on my complacency? I could sense a high degree of restlessness, and a deep craving to give it all up. This recklessness was not looking for an anchor in the mountains and sainthood, albeit that had its own charm, but that was not what I had in mind then. The gnawing feeling that I was consumed with, compelled me to give up everything and start my corporate success story from scratch. Somewhere down the line, the fascination of a regular job and working for others had lost its charm. I wanted to venture into what would be MY enterprise.
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| Sugar and Spice and Everything that’s Not So Nice: A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey of Start-ups! |
So was I the starry eyed individual who believed that a leader in the corporate world had the pre requisite and stamp of success to make his mark in the start-up world? In hindsight, probably yes, as part of the bravado stemmed from that. The rest, I must admit was passion and the confidence to branch off on my own. The excitement of jumping headlong into the vast sea of possibilities that was beckoning me, to launch my own voyage of discovery and success, made me heady with exuberance.
The birth of an idea can be both extremely invigorating and incredibly risky, more so, when it involves embarking on a start-up. At the beginning of your voyage you are like a rudderless ship steered by the winds of your passion and where being “at sea” assumes a poignant, realistic proportion.
The picture of the choppy sea and the wind lashing at the stern of the ship was not out of a novel that I was reading, as I soon realized. I could feel the cold damp
was not looking for an anchor in the mountains and sainthood, albeit that had its own charm, but that was not what I had in mind then. The gnawing feeling that I was consumed with, compelled me to give up everything and start my corporate success story from scratch. Somewhere down the line, the fascination of a regular job and working for others had lost its charm. I wanted to venture into what would be MY enterprise.
So was I the starry-eyed individual who believed that a leader in the corporate world had the prerequisite and stamp of success to make his mark in the start-up world? In hindsight, probably yes, as part of the bravado stemmed from that. The rest, I must admit was passion and the confidence to branch off on my own. The excitement of jumping headlong into the vast sea of possibilities that was beckoning me, to launch my own voyage of discovery and success, made me heady with exuberance.
The birth of an idea can be both extremely invigorating and incredibly risky, more so, when it involves embarking on a start-up. At the beginning of your voyage you are like a rudderless ship steered by the winds of your passion and where being “at sea” assumes a poignant, realistic proportion.
The picture of the choppy sea and the wind lashing at the stern of the ship was not out of a novel that I was reading, as I soon realized. I could feel the cold damp
If you believe that every start-up has to traverse the road from zero to hundred then this book will serve as your guide to get you there!
As for me "am I a successful failure? With success in success and success in failure, with a unique success failure travel map?”
I leave it to you to judge me and my serial entrepreneurial journey.
Read on and live my experiences as I foray into the start-up world and its clichéd universe to discover my own significant meanings through my successes and failures!
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