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The Failures and Success by Mohammed Razeen
My first step into entrepreneurship; It’s Rises, Falls and The Lessons.
Between 2013 and the last quarter of 2014 I startup my own business in partnership what was then called the Business Process Outsourcing (call center), BPO for short. However, for historical reasons I didn’t go into my partnership agreement, contract was not with my partners but with a local agent. I won’t name it here; let’s just call it Global Tech Solutions.
It was about data entry (captcha filling and proof reading), the production was done on a very minimal scale one hundred thousand Indian rupees which is almost six thousand Dirham. Contract was under name of my brother Arsalan Patel as I was not eligible to be an Investor because of adolescence. I was 17 at that time.
The company was named as StepOne.
Another year and half after starting the company, it ran without profit and fail to thrive. In fact, I have spent my time and money differently. With the StepOne demise, it left me demotivated. I quit with a heavy heart. I was broken, and I accepted, that I made a mistake (when you make mistakes, keep in mind that it doesn’t define who you are as a person. Try not to jump on the conclusions about your worth or value. No one’s perfect, and that’s okay. There are no mistake, only lessons).
Unfortunately, building an unorganized business relied on miracle. This marked the moment of company’s failure. It took me few years to realize there is nothing called miracle and luck until you do hard work.
Here’s the part I find cause of failure: over excitement, lack of experience and knowledge, no proper planning, no strategies, feeling boss (leadership failure), exhibit poor management, inability to compete with deadlines, engaging in wrong group of people, untrusted attorneys and decisions without thinking/consulting. If none of it would have happened StepOne hadn’t given up.
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The past is done and at some point, it’s time to move on – which is also something I had to realize after my failure: Now I have the mindset: “Accept the situation and make the best out of it.” Of course, I’m not done yet. Somehow again I convinced myself to start again from the scratch. Thus, I recommend to stay in a mode of hungriness. This time I would learn from my mistake and create an enthusiastic image. Yes, I believe in myself and I destine for success. I will rebuild my company, even vision will call it is still my first step “StepOne”.
“Uthaunga kadam fir se or mil jayegi manzil, maza to tab ayega ke pair me kuch thakan rahe…“
Early in 2015, I started working with Mena College of Management-Dubai initially as Tea Boy (Yes, this is should be called as “The Beginning”) I choose to be a Tea Boy at first because all I was needed is the knowledge and experience. After five years of hard work and sleepless night. I adapted various skills, I tried learning by myself. Whatever I have learned so far, it’s all on my own by trial and error, and by doing this I learned from my failures leading me to improve myself. I learned that you have to be very careful while making decisions. I learned the way how organizations works. But that is still not enough. What I realized is that in order to find balance, sometimes important things need to sit on the back-burner for a while. You don’t have to keep all of your balls in the air at once. It’s OK to put some of them down for a while.
Keeping a journal of your thoughts, ideas, feelings and perspectives can be recommendable in the process. Brainstorm and present those ideas with and to your mentor and loved ones. The resulting cheerleading effect will create even more distance between the old and the new versions of yourself – confidence, there you are again!
Every one of us knows the situation of a friend telling us that we should simply forget about what happened whenever we experience failure. It’s a nice reflection of their support but still: it just doesn’t work like that. First, your brain does not want to forget since whatever it was that you tried implicated a whole lot of work. Second, you don’t want to forget as well. What lessons can be learned, if we keep refusing to actually learn from our mistakes. Try to review the situation: What did you do well? What is it you could have done differently? Lists like these will help when analyzing the situation. Side note: Don’t focus on the fear. Yes, failure often causes insecurities which is totally understandable. But why not change the game? You should rather take these disappointments as wins so you understand that there were still successes that came from the experience.
Moving on can be quite difficult, when always being reminded of what went wrong in the past. Sometimes, it’s good to go out there and to have a little break. Clear your mind so you can think clearly about your next steps. It’s possible to take on a traditional job for a while in someone else’s company or to go on an extended vacation. Even a volunteering program in order to transfer the focus from yourself to another person can be quite beneficial. Get yourself some space to think and regain some sense of satisfaction. In fact, it’s more than necessary to fully recover from what you and your business have been going through. These new challenges will stimulate creativity and motivation.
The real mentors of my life are: Taught me to be the best in your field, these are people who are advocates and who have me backed up always.
Naushad Patel: My inspiration and the great person whom I call Dad; Intikhab Chougle: CEO, Shabeen Management; Munaf Wadkar: Landscape Engineer; Nazir Hurzuk: Finance Manager; Fahad Wadekar: Head of Admin; Prof. Ghassan Al Qaimari: Dean/President; Mr. Ahed Yahya Hamarsha: Businessmen; Ms. Leslie Lingan: HR Manager.
Postscript: I should have made more of a fuss about the success and its failure. It took me more than six years to differentiate between Entrepreneurs and Businessman – thankfully I understood that I should keep learning all the time or I might never have achieved it at all. Success keys, but that is a subject for another article, at another time.
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover captured a photo of what appears to be a purposefully carved doorway leading somewhere deep into the Red Planet last week.
The image was captured by the Curiosity rover’s Mastcam on May 7 as the rover climbed Mount Sharp. According to Gizmodo, the grainy image has piqued the interest of conspiracy theorists because the formation does not appear to be a naturally occurring phenomenon, but rather as if a doorway was purposefully carved into the side of the hill.
But NASA scientists are tempering expectations.
“It’s just the space between two fractures in a rock,” says Ashwin Vasavada, a project scientist with the Mars Science Laboratory.
“We’ve been traveling through an area formed by ancient sand dunes.” The fractures in this area are mostly vertical. “I believe we have either two vertical fractures with the middle piece removed, or one vertical fracture with the blocks slightly separated.”
Experts believe that what is going on here is the human brain’s tendency to see familiar shapes when looking at unfamiliar environments. According to Gizmodo, a squirrel and a spoon were also thought to have been seen on Mars. It’s not just limited to Mars, either.
In December, China’s Yutu 2 lunar rover photographed what was described as a “mystery hut” on the moon’s furthest side, and Chinese scientists were willing and ready to examine what appeared to be signs of extraterrestrial life.
“An obtrusive cube on the northern skyline drew their attention,” the scientists explained at the time. “This object struck the winding skyline like a ‘mysterious hut’ that appeared out of thin air.”
However, upon closer inspection, which took the rover more than two days to complete, it was discovered that the shape was just a trick of the camera, lighting, and perspective, as the “hut” was revealed to be nothing more than a rock.
Skeptics are really not convinced, and many make the argument that nature, despite numerous examples to the contrary, doesn’t tend to make straight lines like those seen in Curiosity’s photo.
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On Saturday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into clear skies above the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, capping off a coast-to-coast flurry of launches just under 24 hours apart.
The 230-foot rocket fired from Launch Complex 40 at 4:40 p.m. EDT and delivered 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit less than an hour later. It was the internet-beaming constellation’s 47th launch.
It came after another Falcon 9 rocket launched the 47th batch of Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Friday. SpaceX has delivered 106 Starlinks to orbit in the last two days, bringing the constellation’s total size closer to 2,500 operational satellites.
Saturday’s Cape mission featured a brand new booster, which flew flawlessly and landed on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship shortly after liftoff. It is expected to return to Port Canaveral for refurbishment early next week.
If schedules hold, the Space Coast will host a doubleheader next week.
On Wednesday, May 18, another SpaceX Falcon 9 will launch the company’s 48th batch of Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center. Because SpaceX has not yet confirmed the existence of this mission, details are limited, but liftoff is expected between 4 and 6 a.m. EDT.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will take Boeing’s Starliner capsule on its second demonstration mission to the International Space Station 36 hours later. The capsule is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Complex 41 at 6:54 p.m. EDT. It is Boeing’s second attempt to reach the International Space Station with an uncrewed capsule after a 2019 test flight failed to meet objectives and had to return to Earth.
NASA chose Boeing and SpaceX to transport astronauts to the International Space Station after the space shuttle program ended in mid-2011. So far, SpaceX has transported five crews, while Boeing could transport its first before the end of the year if Thursday’s mission goes well.
Launch Wednesday, May 18
- Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9
- Mission: 48th Starlink launch
- Launch Time: Early morning TBD
- Launch Pad: 39A at Kennedy Space Center
- Trajectory: Northeast
- Landing: Drone ship
- Weather: Forecast expected Sunday
Launch Thursday, May 19
- Rocket: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
- Mission: Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2
- Launch Time: 6:54 p.m. EDT
- Launch Complex: 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
- Trajectory: Northeast
- Weather: Forecast expected Monday
A hoverboard was once a fictional levitating board used to transport a person from one place to another. As seen in the movies, this is the future to replace all modes of personal and public transportations. Scientists and engineers endeavor to make it a reality, but there come many challenges. An average flying hoverboard has to be lightweight, consume less fuel and should be able to fly for a longer time to cover long-distance travel. There have been a lot of prototypes that became successful at some point, but were not launched commercially because of their limitations being in the developmental stage, the exorbitant price, and pose risks to users.
Some companies are investing a lot of money to make it work publicly. Here are some of the prototypes that had been developed so far:
1. Jet-Powered Hoverboard by Zapata
Franky Zapata always dreamt of flying, but because of his disability of being a color-blind, he was never qualified for being a helicopter pilot. After being disqualified, he didn’t stop there and focused on jet ski racing and later he founded his own jet ski company Zapata Racing. But even after making a career in jet ski business he never gave up on his dream. Using various models of jet engines from an airplane and a platform, he designed EZ-Fly, which was capable of flying 80mph (129kph) at an altitude of 9,000 feet (2,743 meters). Along with the hardware and computer program, Franky developed a steady algorithm to keep the board as steady and safe as possible to fly. This prototype is still at the development stage and costs around $200,000 to $250,000.
2. SLIDE Hoverboard by Lexus
The world-famous Japanese luxury car company, of course, tried their luck in this futuristic innovation. It was originated from a corporate project to develop a premium sedan. Inspired by the movie Back to The Future II, Lexus has announced the Lexus SLIDE hoverboard. It was built for scientific achievement, and not for public sale. This slide relies on Flux Pinning and Meissner effect. And this all worked because of the superconductors inside the board. Superconductors are conductors that have no internal resistance as long as they are kept below a certain temperature. It creates a magnetic field by passing an electrical current between the ground the board. These magnetic forces between the board and ground repel each other and so the board is lifted above the track. It was tested by a pro skateboarder Ross McGouran at a custom-built skate park in Barcelona, Spain.
3. Omni Hoverboard
Catalin Alexandu Duru, a Canadian inventor tested a new type of propeller-based hoverboard prototype and achieve a world record. Omni doesn’t use magnetic field technology and instead, they focused on quadcopter technology. Their startup Mark-1 already made a world record for the longest hoverboard flight and they are already working on Mark-2. Mark-1 prototype can fly up to 1min 30sec for the distance of 905ft but they are constantly improving their system and technology to last their battery for a longer time. Currently, they are working on flight efficiency and stability until their batteries become powerful enough for commercial use. The only drawback of this propeller-based technology is it makes the hoverboard very noisy.
4. Hendo Hoverboard
Arx Pax, the company behind the Hendo Hoverboard tried to make the futuristic fantasy of riding on a hoverboard across the town. They are mainly focused on harnessing the power of electromagnets in developing their hoverboard technology. The basic premise in this technology is called Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA). It uses disc-shaped magnetic hover engines located at the bottom of the board which works on a custom-made track that allows the board to levitate by using magnetic fields which unfortunately limits its application. Moreover, it’s battery only lasts just a few minutes, and the price for the hoverboard starts at $10,000.
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Maherrabiya Rehan Shaikh
September 11, 2020 at 12:26 am
So pleased to see you accomplishing great things. Alhamdulillah
Iqbal Vanoo
September 11, 2020 at 2:11 pm
I give it a thumbs up Razeen for your rise from a humble beginning with a sheer grit of moving on in the face of failure.
One piece of advice or you could call a positive criticism is; as you now are in the social media, you need to organise your thoughts, sort the content, break them in meaningful sentences.
Wish you all the successes for your hard work.
Khalid Mukadam
September 11, 2020 at 2:30 pm
The one that differentiates successful entrepreneurs from remaining, is that they keep on attempting till they succeed.
Alhamdulillah, you have that quality.
May Allah bless you in both worlds.
Abdul rehman
September 11, 2020 at 2:42 pm
Excellent evaluation of success and failure in entrepreneurship, its realy motivated me.
Asif Burud
September 11, 2020 at 4:18 pm
Excellent
You will be the youth inspiration in upcoming days
Cheers
irfan kadarna
September 12, 2020 at 2:49 am
excellent bro go a head,you such a greater person,god will give you more success in your life
Adil Shirgaonkar
September 12, 2020 at 4:59 am
Masha Allah.
May Allah be pleased with your efforts and take you to your desired destination or the best known to HIM.
Honestly speaking, needed such kind of motivational content to inspire and regain myself.