Startup Lessons From India's Freedom Movement


Maximize resources:

They learnt to maximize their resources as a means to live in the jungles, scavenge for food and dress in simple handspun cloths.

The majority of their looted wealth was reserved for arming themselves to the teeth, training camps for new recruits and providing food and water to the famine ravaged country folks in order to maintain their loyalty to the movement.

Learn to identify your organization’s priorities and invest in them wisely.

Focus:

The sannyasis and fakirs gave up all accessories and walked to the corners of the earth for spiritual salvation. They lived in the forest where bliss was defined by one's active contribution to the movement.

They were brave fighter men and women who gave up their families and livelihoods for the motherland.

Naturally you do not have to go to these extents.

Where will you find jungles in urban populated cities, how would you live without the internet and above all how would you practice celibacy?

But your success would be directly proportional to the intensity of your discipline and focus.

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