Hey Hunters, I am super excited to launch my first personal effort on Product Hunt 🎊 🎉🎁 🎈 I started my career about 8 years back as an Investment Banker at J.P. Morgan. I worked there for 3 years but that life wasn't for me :/ Ever since, I have been trying my hand at entrepreneurship over the past 4-5 years and feel that I have finally found my calling. I enjoy "going to work" and that continues to bewilder my friends :P As entrepreneurs, we have about 95% failures and 5% successes (at least in my experience). While we hear about the successes, we often don't hear about the things that went wrong. Even if we do, they are about the Musks and Jobs of the world. I yearn for real stories I can learn tangible things from. So, about 3 months back, I decided to give it a try myself by sharing the lessons I've learnt as an entrepreneur. A typical story I share, would include: - A theme around a concept of a startup - My first-hand experience I don't give advice but share my stories - each person can then adapt it to their contexts. Advice is rigid, boring and doesn't lend itself across scenarios - hence, un-useful. To finish my clearly excited monologue, here are a few examples of my past stories/newsletters: 1. Theme: Failure - My first mistake as entrepreneur: Link 1 2. Theme: Personal story - Chasing happiness: Leaving a 100,000-pound job to pursue entrepreneurship: Link 2 3. Theme: Some success - I got 4 new customers and a 10x return by building a side project Link 3 4. Theme: Community building - Step-by-step story of how we built The Remote Clan Link 4 With that, I will be eagerly waiting to answer any questions/comments that you folks have. Vamos!

Congrats on the launch @karthik_sridharan!

Hey @karthik_sridharan! I've been following you and I personally love the way the stories are written. Looking forward to many more like this, cheers!

This is great Karthik. I've worked with you and have always enjoyed the way you think of problems. Read a couple of articles and it reads exactly the way you talk - very genuine! Subscribed!

Congratulations on launch, your product looks great!

Hey Karthik, Have been an early subscriber of your newsletter :) I consume a lot of content in the form on articles, books, Linkedin posts etc and what has stood out for me is how you treat your failures. From the articles (& posts), it seems you've had your share of failures but what is appreciable is how accepting you have been (at least it seems so to me) and believe that these are a part of the process. While I have come across other newsletters, I think you've certainly hit a few home runs over the past couple of months. Look forward to more!

What I like about your newsletter is the fantastic storytelling :) Whether or not I relate to the story, the smooth flow always gets me gripped to the end. It is so great to see someone putting themselves out there and sharing details in all candour. No external benchmarks, drivers, passions and other buzzwords. No preaching, just plain old storytelling.

I absolutely love reading about your entrepreneurship journey. It feels down-to-earth and honest. Strangely enough I am able to relate to many of the experiences you share. I am in the beginning of my career, barely completing my 1st year. However, for example the article about why you decided to pursue entrepreneurship really resonated with me. I did come across a similar situation with regards to happiness as you. I dealt it in a similar fashion. And I am happy now :P.

Very inspiring! Loved reading each one of your stories. Subscribed✔️

Love the takes across the various aspects of the startup and also the candour. I am just at the beginning of my career and it really helps to know how more senior people process decision. All the best!

Love the way how your stories are written without the use of any fancy words so that anyone can understand your journey! Great read!

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This is so interesting!!! Someone who wants to start a business can also try Microfinancial Business.