When Renuka and Bala arrived, I began the conversation and rambled a bit about how contests2win.com was growing and how our business was scaling. Then I looked at Renuka and said, ‘Ma’am, we need more money to grow. Can you please help us with a small round of funding just to tide us over for the next year or so?’ Renuka kept silent for a long while and then looked at me, smiled and said, ‘Alok, when we have small children, they fall when they start walking. As parents, we can easily prevent them from falling, but we don’t. Allowing them to fall is what teaches them to walk.’ That’s all that
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