I run a startup. And today opportunity knocked on my door. Right in my phone – someone had called me up and offered my startup a ridiculously awesome opportunity. And I had to turn it down, because we were not ready.
Needless to say, it was a bitter 2 hours for me. 8.30 a.m – an acquaintance called and offered me a good opportunity for the startup to grow at ridiculous pace. I told him to give me a couple of hours to check to see we were all systems green for this opportunity. Within that 2 hours, I had checked, double checked and triple checked with all my colleagues, to see if we were good to go. Alas, we were not. You see, one of the requisites for this opportunity is that we were live and open. We were not. 10 a.m, I rejected the opportunity and helped in giving it away.
And this isn’t the first time this has happened. Over the last 1 year, we’ve been afforded opportunity after opportunity – so much so that I have once considered myself a very lucky man. And over the past 1 year, I’ve had to turn down opportunity after opportunity, some big, some small. And all for the same reason. Today’s opportunity is as large as they come – someone wanted to offer my startup a booth at CeBit Sydney for virtually free * It burns me even now, to think that I had to put on a smiley face and offer this opportunity to someone else I know .
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