A day in the life of an entrepreneur in 2022

Struggles of an average bootstrapped startup founder

So this has been a long pending post which I had been thinking to write. The exact heading of todays post is mostly inspired from today’s events. However, even before today, the long peding urge to take it all out of your heart was there.

Let the day begin.

Woke in the morning somewhere at around 7.30 AM but continued to lie down on the bed doing some usual mobile web browsing. Don’t ask me what, just dont. Next it was time to get freshed and to have breakfast. Mom had made Idli today after sometime. Perhaps the only good thing that happended today.

I started working for the day by going through Fiverr updates for yesterday’s job request that I had posted. Fucking guy from Bangladesh wants $400 to make a good design for our website. So I had to look out for other designers. There wasn’t any to get updated with.

Next what I remember doing was checking out for checking out for the MCA website for changes in the directors. Somehow suddenly, I got a message from the Indiafilings person that the update had been done. Yay! I’m a director now. Officially a Designated Partner in the company. But it was more of a relief than a cheer. We had been trying to get it done for past couple of months now, having begun the change of directors excercise in June 2021. That is how slow things work for us. And its supposed to be a startup where things are supposed to happen at lightning fast speed.

Next was a series of cold messaging attempts to certain pre-seed investors whom I thought were really good. Connected with them on Linkedin and Twitter, hoping for a response by the end of the day. I was also waiting for the rejection email from one of VCs that I had meeting with the other day. But it didnt’t come either. Don’t know for good or for bad.

Next inline was a something of a 1 hour+ call with sir. We spoke about changing of bank accounts, some discussion on development work and about hiring of a flutter developer. I continued my attempts of finding the right UI/UX developer on Fiverr, after the call but in vain. As if I was determined to make this even more worse, I tried cold messaging even more investors on Twitter and Linkedin.

Something happened inbetween when I was applying somewhere. I suddenly started feeling frail and dizzy, almost like I’ll fall down and lose my conciousness. I thought I’ll leave it and go for the lunch. I felt better having eaten the Idlis for the second time in about 4 hours. But got to say, they were delicious. Sometimes my mom makes really good food.

I laid down after lunch on my bed. I thought I should text someone, to see if I can make a good human connection that can allow me to perhaps confide something or just have someone to talk to regulary (yeah its definitely more than that). So I reached out, shared a few useful messages and links inorder to start a conversation, but to no gain.

Later I got a call from Sir again. I told him that I tried reaching out to banks but either couldn’t find the correct number or the number that I found was of no use. Later we discussed other things, including me not feeling well sometime back and my throat having some form of discomfort. He asked me to rest if required. So I took some more rest.

I started working again at around 4 PM with the guilt of having a lot of work to do and not doing it not allowing to either sleep or take some more rest. I was tempted to reach out to more investors by sending them cold messages. But then I thought let the website comeup. Good web design and content might make us more appealing.

Somewhere in the eveing I shortlisted a few more designers. Sent the shortlist to the signal group. Then I went after finding Flutter developers on Fiverr. And OMG! These guys are charging a bomb for the work that they might do. Not that they don’t deserve it, but still, really good money. It made me rethink my life choices of not going for a tech role or for computer science during college. Life would have much more easier, had it been the case.

Having seen the development fee charges quoted by developers on Fiverr, I thought I should finally make a job posting that had been pending so long. So I made some edits to the hiring poster that I made earlier on Canva. But the perfectionist in me doesn’t stop at downloading the design once. So, I re-downloaded the designs a few more times after making some minor changes in them a few more times.

Once the design was done, I copied the JD that I had recieved earlier and used it to the post job on Linkedin. Then again, posted the same requirement on Angel list. Well, someone should tell these guys to make job posting a bit more easier. (Well I see another startup idea here).

In between the postings, I wondered, why not look out for a job for myself. Then I thougt, I’ve already tried a lot and it isn’t quite working. So lets make the startup work. The hiring work got extended from Likedin and Angel list to whatsapp. As usual, I put it in the usual forwarding groups and forwarded it to two nice meaning friends that I can bank on always.

Thats it I thought. Its been 9.30 already, so no more work.

It was almost the end of the day and I didn’t recieve even a single reply from any of those investors that I had reached out to. Not even one. Neither from Twitter, nor from Linkedin. Another normal day in the life of an entrepreneur I felt.

Desperate to find some human connection, I decided to use the Bumble spotlight for the week today, hoping to make some connection atleast. But no. Nothing here as well. I swipped for 30 mins straight, but not a single connection.

Then to add more to it, mom started speaking to dad about the marriage thing. The leftover frustration from there was showered on me. I tried to get over it by watching a series. But then Netflix subscription got over because friend decided not to renew it for me.

So its then when I thought I should write. To summarize the entire day, it was more of trying hard to make things work, thinking over your life choices, seeing that no one really gives a fuck about you and yet trying to make things work.

I guess thats enough for today. Thank you, if you had the patience to read until the end. But going by how the day went, I’m pretty sure, no one is going to read this either.

Good night!