Exciting Times...

These are exciting times at techTribe.  We shipped our second major release last week, and the feedback from the users has been awesome.  It wasn't a huge surprise, since we've been taking feedback from users daily, and incorporating them into the product cycles, but nevertheless, it's always good to hear positive things about our efforts.  We also heard some feedback about things members would like to see changed - and we're working on them as we speak - hopefully release this weekend :).

I've also been spending a little time on the upcoming book - How Innovators Connect.  I recently spoke to Joe Kraus (founder of Excite, JotSpot/Google) who is an incredible and humble entrepreneur, and Ram Shriram (Seed Funded Google).  Both were just remarkable learning experiences.  In the conversations, we spoke about how life at a startup is so different and how as Entrepreneurs, we are the biggest optimists out there. 

In the life of a entrepreneur at a startup, there are always exciting times when we feel like we're going great guns, and there are times when it feels like the mistakes we've made are going to be a huge issue.  Its been my experience that there's always lessons on both ends of the spectrum.  I've learnt that it doesn't make sense to take either to heart, and equanimity is the only way to be. 

At techTribe, there's been several things we've done right, and a few we could've done differently.  It's interesting to be able to see the mistakes we've made in the last few weeks - but very critical that we acknowledge them.  It's important for me to not come down too hard on ourselves on mistakes, as long as we take corrective action.  The ratio of good decisions to bad ones has been very favorable, and that's all that matters.   For me, the ability to make a decision based on information available, rather than  swinging in a  pendulum cycle is a lot more important.

Talking to Joe Kraus, I learnt that we were about to make a mistake on a business model - which probably saved techTribe 3 months - not development time, but revenue time.  That's the other part of entrepreneurship - the need to network and LEARN - every single day.  Every person I talk to, every situation we face, every place we're in - there's something there for us to learn - all we need is the ability to listen--to the whispers of the universe around us.

It's mid December, and I'm off to India again for a couple of weeks - to stay connected with the techTribe community.  People seem surprised at how I manage to be in India every other week and not get tired of it - to them I only have one thing to say - YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE INDIA AT THIS MOMENT - the passion, the desire to do something, the hustle and bustle of young professional life - it's addictive.  I'm rarely tired in India, even after long days made up of 14 hours of meetings, and 4 hours of phone calls to the US.

These are exciting times. 

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