jodhpuriGuy | Avi Mehta

Ever since I was in my my third year at DAIICT I decided that I will start my own company some day. The stories of various people who have chosen similar paths and succeeded inspired me and motivated me to work towards my goal.Today I have completed my Masters and I am going to join Microsoft in a couple of months. I am really excited about the job but somewhere I feel that I did not do justice to myself and to my ambitions. I did not work hard enough…

I was thinking of various things that I might have done differently to be in a different position. I’ll list two of them here:

• I should have spent lesser time online reading news. I am hooked to Google Reader Full time. I follow more then 70 blogs through it and go through more than 400 blog posts/News items every day. This along with the number of times I just refresh the reader page amounts to a lot. I could have spent this time elsewhere with better returns.
• I should have stayed focused. I started a number of projects in the last one year. Many of them were to just learn something new and some were with the aim to create a new product. I hate to say this but I did not give enough time to the projects that had the potential to be something. May be I’ll start giving more time to each of the projects that I start. I’ll also try to reach a milestone in fixed time duration and worry about the last 10% of the features later on.

The two reasons mostly sum up my complaints with myself. So why did I writing them here?

So that I can come back in a year and see how much I have changed things and if I improved from what I am right now. :). Hopefully the title would then have to be corrected to “Why I can not be an entrepreneur for now. What did I do wrong?”

Happy New Year to everyone!