The Control Factor

Owners of Nuffnang, your pain of running this business are felt by every entrepreneur. First, you will feel the pain of motivating a team of staff because it requires skills where you have to adopt the balance of keeping humans happy and work done. You pull out your gun and start firing them and you lose the respect and they become dead people, you give them the cozy little love and you see them behaving like what people who took things for granted.

Oh, Timothy is a nice boss, isn’t it? You’re just sitting there, in your chair, thinking, how to tell them to speed up their work. Speed is a relative term. The measure is different for everyone and trying to get them to not only read but produce your measure won’t makes you shiver but if you think you had the skills to motivate them then let me say at one point you would find the level of your skill has dropped. Brother, everyone had felt that pain. I’ve been there and millions would probably have been there. I’ve heard of stories of people got fired by the same company they founded. I hope it won’t be same case as you but you created this friggin thing call nuffnang and you haven’t a clue how to motivate staff because you have never work a single day in your life (I mean a corporation) haven’t a clue about bringing people forward in a corporate environment. The hype and all would push your energy from the start and you had probably closed a few deals and any sort of success is success now and you are enjoying all publicity no doubt. But you can start folding your tent if success has only a single meaning.

I know, you feel like some hunk, whose name is pasted on some kind of hall of fame now which you think is all quite good for the future. Don’t feel so. You’re not the first one to feel it. Many had done it; many achieved more than nuffnang and still fail. Infact the niche of nuffnang is so small, it ain’t gonna be climbing tall mountains. The people in America, in China, in Europe, they haven’t a clue about nuffnang and probably can’t even if they try to have interest. No really. It’s true.

I mean, sure, you still got a nice little office, somewhere in some tall buildings with windows staring across some of the best skyscrapers.

Keep cranking out your ideas and maybe more business would come in. Or maybe not. Control as they say is able to turn every nose of the people working under you or above you without being sent away. Now there are many types of control to learn as there are many types of people in corporation. Every corporation has its own unique culture and some you would like and some you won’t. But culture isn’t something you can share just like that.

One has to be in there, survive, share, work and then learn. Sure you would not believe it was the best environment but you absorb and you will happily implement the cultures when you finally run a corporation, not all but some of it. Meanwhile you find that your partner is making plans to kill a part of your idea, frig you up too with some politics. Now you realized you are working with retards and viability of the business becomes a question mark. Someone is making noise about something which added another touch of much need or not needed complexity and confusion becomes greater and greater as the environment becomes murky. Some think about dumping the whole thing and all these happens under the eye of your critics, ready to come with the tag “Destined to Lose”. Oh dude, don’t tell me it would be anything but perfect because then you would be defying history, right? Yeah, me too. I walked the path you are walking so instead of shouting Google.com’s success, try to steal just 1% of their market share and that would soften the pain greatly.

I know, the next thing you want to say in your blog is you don’t care about money. All you are keen is to sit in your office and chew gums and run the business, and you don’t care about profits. So hey, things would not be what you expect but don’t try to impress to the point of forsaking your humility and implementing hypocrisy. But look. The good thing out of this thing would be someone might offer you a job later on in your life and you could move back to the starting point where you suppose to start albeit with a mind lesser naïve and I’m sure even then you could chew your gum whatever flavor you like. Just need to buy.

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The Real Success Factor

You may notice the leader’s passion in this venture about becoming a force in the internet community. They are driven by money and status.

You may not have noticed since the beginning of the story, that what is lacking is the real passion of the entity creation itself and being passionate about the existence of this creation is so important because it gives one the energy to stir the ship in very difficult circumstances.

That one got overlooked but trust me, people who been there done that, would noticed. And I know the owners of Nuffnang are not freaking out. Why? Because the reality of the barriers ahead had not hit and of course you would not let it affect you more than what it might.

The real motive of any business must be making money. But that cannot be the overriding factor to the point of saying it out loud and broadcasting it on your personal blog. Guess what effect it might as on your potential customers? It isn’t a simple business such as $2 for a delicious bowl of Mee Pok Tah.

A business is a complex whole which main objective is make money but the real passion in doing so centers on a string of the creation of providing and that is the system of businesses which can circles community. But guess what you dudes are using to drive the core of the business? If I were to fast forward this and see where this would gonna end up, then what I see in a few years time is something not very big. Not good enough to be something that huge that can trudge the earth’s surface and have noise the equal size of your ambition in the monetary measure of the business.

Reason for this is because you had set yourself such a high standard when endlessly comparing yourself to Google.com and the owners of these some of the best enterprises where they are successful but albeit the best from a very big pool of failures and more so probably started off by some of the genius in the world.

Right you look at Mr. Steve Job, while admiring all his success about Apple and how it compete with Microsoft in search of the point where the next technology dough is heading, but the real right amid all these glamour are quietly happening.

It is like while i am operating the clutch and the gears of my car, i haven’t a clue what is happening inside.(for those who feel the need to get the better side of me and tells me he knows and why i don't, try make a living out of it then)

And though i know how to operate and enjoy the system which allows me to drive, there is something exist which i couldn’t see and the magic of setting up the system is not something I can create just because I can and love driving a car. You wait and see. There will be battles and your battle is going to be played not on a ground where you have time to learn but immediately in something as sexy as bonking a running horse. Just raw battles. And perhaps battles that had nothing to do with technology or your imagination of your expectations. Yeah. Armageddon is what I see. I am predicting skid marks and lots of it. Looking at a fine example like Google.com does not make your business follow suit.

Thinking of Google.com’s success would not be success just because one has thought enough of it. Sure, they inspire us with the grip and the influence it had around thee globe, but if only their success can be easily understood as the success of the Goreng Pisang stall in your local coffeeshop.

What happens is as the business prospers, investors inherit ownerships and trust me, when you attract big investors and allow them a foot in it, the end result is these guys who have the moolah once again raised their profile by arbitraging the potential.

The bigger the money, the bigger the power. The ultimate direction of the business is with those who has the next million buck buying into power, not less. Why am I saying so? Because the focus of your ambition are only as big as your ability to invest.

Anyhow, you are already in the game, so I am here to criticize you from now on, everyday on this blog and remind you the rule of the game itself. There are lessons to be learnt and I will use the story of nuffnang to faciliate this education to aspiring entrepreneurs.

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