Welcoming 2015 with a Sunrise

We slept at nearly 2 o' clock in the morning after walking through a mile. It was 1st Jan 2015.

All of us went to the beach that midnight, to see the fire crackers and the joy of new year. The sparkling of fire crackers, for 10 minutes we looked up in the sky. We all were really enjoying the moment. It was nice and fun.

Then we returned to our hotels, it was late around 1:30 AM. Sitting on our bed, me, Anup and Ankit decided to watch the Sunrise. I really wanted to, as it inspires me. The soft red color Sun, rising from the horizon and reflecting through water, which later will glow so brightly that it's hard to look at.
It says, you can be weak or posses less skills and quality now; but that doesn't mean you will be like this all the while. Try and give time to yourself, practice, persevere and be patient, you will reach where and what you are determined of. This view fills up energy in me to grow and glow. That's why I really wanted to go to see the Sunrise.

Darsh and Binay were tired and they didn't want to go. We decided, we will try to wake them up, if they don't then don't, but we three will go. :-)

Slept at 2 might be, I don't remember that whether we actually slept or not, but at 4 AM, we woke up, tired and went to the beach.

August 4 2015

I hear my senior executives talking to people in English and have a very good conversation with them, like for an example by the end of the conversation they mention that how it was good to have you on the call/conversation, this clearly reflects the quality of conversation and creates a bonding between them professionally.

Am I not enjoying the work at this moment or I am getting weak in coding? I don't like to code in any language any more. I just like to think about the logic, design the system and write the SQL queries.

I am still dangling with the thought that what is better for me? The technical part which I am finding I am not good at or the one which is more managerial stuff. I am not good in english and communication hence I can't go in front to the clients or our customers because I may lower the quality of the organization, I am not a perfect professional with the quality of the professionalism.

My problem: Conversation and Communication in English. Here is where I lack. I need to make myself good at this one.
I will work on it.

Integrating linkedin is really taking me time. Have I became lazy?
No I wasn't lazy, I was not clear what to do exactly. After discussing it with my colleague, now I know what to do and how?

I was able to achieve something today i.e. to display the authorization box to the user.
But today was not so productive too. After the lunch I took a break to play an addictive game, then worked something related to CRY, then browsed through social media. In this way I spent 3 hours of my time and did almost nothing kind of.

Sales call

August 9th post:

Today I called all the students who have registered themselves for the platform, ReCoin Lab. Some were excited, some where okay and some where like I don't know who you are!

Sometimes it was embarrassing to talk to some as they were least interested in the conversation, there was this guy who showed interest first then he told if I can call him up after sometime, then after 2 hours when I called him; he simply disconnected the call.

These are called sales call, you are not going to make all of them, turn into a success sale. Somewhere you need to keep trying and pushing to make your initial sales. Yes I know these are not the part which you have ever done and are comfortable to do. It's okay, you can take this as your practical MBA course. If you fail, you may fail but you need to come up with strategies and build those around them.

I need to make a lot of sales call I guess in upcoming months and keep trying to get all those call towards affirmative directions. Sales call are the most tough part in the business until and unless you create a value which is really required and there is demand for it.
Yes I need to focus more on the product which I am trying to build and keep improving the quality of it.

Marketing will automatically happen when there is a quality and once I have a brand value, most of the marketing channel targets will convert to successful sales as well.

Next day edits (June 26th): Some of the students were asking if this is an online platform!

Failed #5

Okay I failed, I left Delhi, a good paying job and came to Kolkata to start something of my own, to create something but I failed bad. It was not okay and comfortable to accept that I failed, but the reality is I did.
Now what?

From last 10 days I was drowning in my own darkness and heavily low in energy. I don't know what to do now and what to do next! Completely feeling lost somewhere. Talking to near by people and friends is only helping me cope up with the situation.

What are the points which led to this failure:

• I thought I would be able to start this thing but I was wrong and then I remember that one should never try to start a company all by itself, he or she needs more than one co-founder to keep the enthusiasm level high. 
• Moreover before starting up I should have done a ground study and research properly, I don't know how to conduct that as well.
• Checking whether the idea will work or not? conducting surveys and getting feedback from the potential users that whether they will be willing to pay for it or not.
• Is there any already working model (i.e. competitors). If so then that will validate that there is already a market for it, but now I should have looked that what they are offering and how they are offering? Might be my way would be incorrect.
• Location - yes it matter a lot because the mentality of the people depends as well, sometimes the community is not ready for that kind of product or service, hence one needs to identify where it will work. One can even solve this problem by educating the community about the product and services, spreading awareness about it, but the choice is always on the others hand whether to buy it or not.
• Hope - perseverance, I have less patience i.e. it would help me to go for a long run. An empire can't be built in one day, it takes time. I get fragile and impatient. I still haven't found a way how to fix this problem in me and figure out the process/ steps to follow to achieve where I want to reach.

Collectively all this has resulted in my failing, but at the end the major question is: Have I given up?

Starting-up and learning on ideation phase

Even 1 new registration fills so much of encouragement in me. When I open the form link to check how many has been registered yet, if the number remains the same as the last one then it really hurts some where, but if the number rises, then the encouragement and excitement gets multiplied with the increased number count.

Now this is dealing with a venture, when you start something there is a huge anxiety which we have and that thing spikes when there is a positive thing happening in the process. Now what to do when there isn't any positive happening and more drastically if there is a negative happening, then how you are going to deal with the your mind and fight with your anxiety.

First stop the thought because they are not going to help you anyway - meditate or best do a yoga.
Second instead of thinking useless thoughts, you need to brainstorm, now if you choose to do that in your mind box then it is of no use. Brainstorming should be in reality, not abstract. Take out a pen and paper, or white board and marker, start with writing there. Use colors (different color pens or markers), sticky notes like stuff. Don't represent your idea in a black and white fashion.

This brainstorming will help you think through the hurdles and sketch out what you may do next, hence in a separate paper list to-dos out of it.
Now, finding out how much time will it require to complete it. This is called effort estimation.
Last part, sequencing - until and unless you don't sequence it, how will you know what to do first and then after. You will be directionless.

Will soon post some image to this showing sample on how brainstorming looks like.. ;-)

Preparing the path to uncertainity

Soon I will be leaving my job to start something new in my life. Yes that's exciting as well as daunting too. Previously I was financially dependent on someone else now I have to take responsibility of my own income.
Throughout these years when I have been frustrated about not being able to make it through with an idea, now is the time when I am taking a full on complete risk to work on this venture, name: ReCoin Lab

This is a whole and sole try to entirely change the foundation of human grow in our civilized society i.e. education system. Every child goes through it, learn from it and that's where he or she get her nature shaped into.

While talking about today's education system, it's really lame and outdated, now there are a lot different sources from where a student gets to learn. Online courses, information on Facebook, video tutorials on YouTube, and etc. Lots of things are there. Now what content one needs to curate to, has become a huge question out there. One can either evolve or may get completely distracted using these information, the only thing which matters is where is the attention.

What is my vision is to convert the present way of learning i.e. where we make students sit in a closed room and expect them to be creative to making things happen in practical world and then helping them to learn, which is learning by doing.
One can understand a topic only when there is a curiosity in him or her, without actually giving a real world taste how can we generate curiosity in someone's mind!
Once this curiosity is being created, then reading about the topic, gaining theoretical knowledge will help them connect the dots.
Creating the dots is hardly done through sentences (i.e. theoretical knowledge), the impact comes from real world objects, hence practical exposure should come first and that's what ReCoin will do, flip the coin.

Habit Tracker version 0.7.4

Releasing version 0.7.0 which had the 21 days progress bar - that functionality didn't worked well. There was a slight glitch in it. Fixed it after 10 days.
My perception regarding 21 days was like keeping a challenge in-front of the user. But that didn't work. Two reason:

• 21 days should be used to build a habit, not to track something. That's the concept behind it.
• Plus, user don't know how to use the app or are not aware about the purpose of the 21 days functionality in the app.

I have decided to break the app in 3 different module. Habit building, Tracking something, & Challenge and Grow ;-)
Building this structure will take time.

First thing which I need to incorporate in the app is Tutorial - this will help user to understand what's the purpose of the app and how to use the app. The app with Tutorial version will come to the market on 2nd April 2017.

A new idea which came in my mind today was - Track with your friend. If you and your friend are tracking a same habit or an activity then both can be notified on completing it everyday i.e. when the user mark as done, this will trigger a notification to the friend, asking "your friend marked for today, have you?"
This may encourage friendly competition among two of them and hence will help them achieve the goal or task through surrounding support.