5 Secrets to Actually Making it Big in Business

3 min readDec 28, 2022

Starting with a 5 years old kid around the block to your beloved grandfather, each one of us is living our lives with something to look forward to. Hate to be “that” person, but today I am bringing it down with some harsh truths. Speaking with Polygon Technology Co-Founder, Sandeep Nailwal, who has seen the pinnacle of success and continues to do so, I realized there are a few fundamentals when it comes to playing in the big leagues.

1. Experience with failures

Being excellent learning opportunities, failures test your attitude toward any crisis. While during the crisis you knight feel extremely disheartened, how you decide to deal with the situation will have a heavy impact on your team and the future of your venture. This is something you can start working on even before you actually come across that inevitable failure. Look forward to failing because all it is an opportunity.

2. Don’t act on emotion

Not suggesting that you strive to function on a complete lack of empathy. Infact, on the contrary. However, running a business and scaling it will require substantially greater use of logic and data than emotions. Sometimes our past failures can haunt our present and bring resistance to important decision making processes. When things are not going right, try to be as empirical as possible- having a trusted team who can assist with making big decisions is definitely an advantage.

3. Focus on market research

Your service or product can not succeed without a proper need for it in the market. Most early stage startups fail due to a lack of market research or blind faith in a speculative market. Every business loses money at some point and recovery is also possible. But continuously pouring in money into a product that has no demand, no awareness in the market will drain the business financially. First, fully understand the market you are in, how it works and its highs and lows. Once you have enough research to back your idea, fine tune product features to give users exactly what’s missing in the current market.

4. Find a source of strength

Comfort is the enemy of innovation. Once you have that job which pays you moderately well, you have booked a fine new house in one of the metropolitan cities, you are now most likely caught in the rat race. If you start believing in the status quo, turning around will be painful. But if you know what you were born to do, find that strength to give it a shot. Know that the regret of not even trying will be greater than the comfort of a 9 to 5.

5. A burning desire is a prerequisite

Only people who are crazy enough choose entrepreneurship. You have to put in extremely long hours, lose the sense of night and day, live in constant chaos, deal with not being able to catch a break and realize that you can still lose! Eventually, the hunger for money, independence and innovation will die down, if being an entrepreneur and being able to deal with high-risk situations is against your grain. There is nothing wrong with a regular corporate job that pays well, allows you to go on vacations and get back home in a timely manner. Get to know yourself first. Figure out if you do have that undying passion, and if you do, nothing can stop you.

Everything starts with yourself. Entrepreneurship is great if that’s who you are at the core. Be you, be unstoppable.

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