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A year of entrepreneurship

One year ago, to this date, was my first client meeting. And just the day before was my last day at my corporate job. The meeting went well - without a real promise of anything coming my way (I had to get used to this - meetings are only a first step - though the getting used took a long time.) As I waited at the bus stop after the meeting, I reflected on how, if this was a corporate meeting, a cab would be waiting for me and all I had to do was ask the cab to come to the entrance. And in this new avatar, frugalism was the name of the game. So, with the job, gone was the cabin. The position. The title. The designation. The corporate privileges which we get used to and sometimes feel entitled to as well. Gone was a huge team who would be the force multipliers, the executors, available for every discussion - now there was nothing. Just the wide world and a traveller with a bag and a journey. It was a new road, a new identity, perhaps a journey to find myself as well. At the