subject: How To Win When You Are An Underdog? [print this page] Stay grounded and focus on how to reach your goals
What are the goals you want to achieve? What do you think you can do to get there? You don't really need to change the world in 3 months. This type of overnight success concept seems to be the new virus that is spreading around infecting many start-ups. Many VCs and popular technology blogs would want us to believe it. It is almost like brain washing. If you believe in this, you are heading towards disappointment because the odds are really against you. Stay grounded in reality! Build your start-up one step at a time with clear goals and detailed steps on how to achieve them. Don't waste your time talking about how you want to change the world when you have not even figured out how to stay alive in the next 3 months. Don't set goals that are so big that you cannot realistically achieve it in any given time. Set goals to solve your immediate problems and work out practical ways to fulfill them. When you have clear direction based on these goals then start working your butt off to get them done. As your start-up grow, your goals will naturally become broader because you will now have more resources such as money and manpower to achieve them. With this approach, changing the world is a natural progression of your growth and no magic is required in between.
None of the points above are of any order. You could be working on multiple points at any one time or just one. If you combine point 2 and point 4 of this article, you should be able to see clearly if you are contributing something significant or new. Even if you are not innovative, if you could figure out point 3 and point 5 as you press forward, you can still win the game as an underdog. The points listed here are not some academic theory about how you can succeed as an underdog but rather guidelines that we have figured out so far. We are trying to implement all these guidelines ourselves as we press on ahead and we hope that it will be useful to you as well.
How To Win When You Are An Underdog?
By: Ivan Tay
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