So here I go....

I worked with a couple of startups during my graduation, and I realised what kind of life I wanted to live. I enjoyed working with startups and wanted to build one of my own. I tried all possible combinations, joining various groups of 5,4,3 and even 2. But it just wasn't working. Many times I could convince half of my family and many more times I could not even do that. Then I realised the problem. The problem was me. I was not prepared to walk down the path. I wanted to start, but not badly enough. Eventually I was forced to walk down the path I had decided not to take. I joined a company.

I joined a company big enough to make you feel big. You could enter office whenever you wanted, get a coffee at 1100, lunch at 1300, again a coffee at 1500, snacks at 1700, dinner at 2000. Then a cab to drop you back to home. I was getting a lot of comfort in writing a piece of code that was not going to make any difference in the way people were living their lives.

I sensed somehow that I did not belong to this system. I was not happy with the way things were going around me. A lot had to be done by someone. Why not me?

Thinking to find a solution was not simple. Being a part of such a cozy and comfortable system, you tend to sleep. I did not want to sleep. I decided to leave and then think. I decided to try out the last combination, a group of 1. I resigned.

It's rightly said that when you do some thing good, a lot of good things happen to you. I found two friends who had already resigned and were having the same vision. We founded maxHeap Technologies.

We were three, we were the team and we had started. We started to think about problems that people were facing. And after a lot of discussion and survey, the problem of telemarketing spam topped the list. Ban Karo was born.

We enjoyed building it, the night outs, the day blackouts. We enjoyed every byte of it. Because that is what life is all about.

When should I start?

After having passed 22 good years of my life, I have often wondered about the following:

Q1: When should I start? and when will the right time come?
Q2: When would that right person(s) come with whom I can share my vision?
Q3: Will I be successful?

I have been trying to find the answers to these questions. I've even tried to find questions not even thought of. When is the right time? Will the right time ever come to pass? Will I be able to start? If not, then what will I do? Am I going to live & die in a way that I don't want to? What is my destiny?

There've been many times when I've decided to start and many more times when I've decided not to. Many times when I could convince half of my family and many more times when I could not even do that. So what is the reason? Is my family right or am I not confident enough to convince my family, my friends and the people that influence my life? Or do too many people influence my life? So it's not me who does that. If I cannot convince the very people closest to me, will I be able to sell my product to a stranger who has not even heard of me?

It's only now that I've started getting answers to all of my questions.
A1: The time is now. Time never comes, it just goes.
A2: People are here; have a look around.
A3: As I know the answer to the first two questions, success will definitely follow.

Life has started getting simpler. And my vision is clearer. Ways and paths are opening up. People are starting to get convinced. Are they the same people who were against me? Have the people changed or have I? Whatever I have started now, I'm doing it with people with whom I can share my vision. And that, in the end, is what matters most.