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Today's Entrepreneur: Jayati Sengupta

No. 1 mistake: Trying to launch with a bucketful of features

Innovation series by Kristin Karaoglu
April 18, 2012 | Comments
Short URL: http://vator.tv/n/25d4

Today's Entrepreneur is Jayati Sengupta, CEO and Founder, Flipgigs. According to her VEQ Jayati is a thought leader and is good at product management and team motivation.

Vator’s community is the home to entrepreneurs who embrace their passion and follow their dreams. Our profiles allow members to express themselves by sharing their interests, lessons learned, as well as bits and pieces of their roller-coaster journey.

These profiles give entrepreneurs an opportunity to showcase themselves and tell their story. So if you are an entrepreneur, a serial entrepreneur, or even an aspiring entrepreneur, we'd like to hear from you.

I am a(n):
Entrepreneur

Companies I've founded or co-founded:
Flipgigs

Startups I worked for:
DeviceAnywhere, Flipgigs

If you are an entrepreneur, why?
I'm bursting with ideas!

My favorite startups:
Social Twist, Box.net, Pandora, Airbnb, Flipboard

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?
Frustrating 48 hour days and rewarding when you are told that you have one of the most beautiful and refreshing websites by dozens of people

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs make?
Definitely making a mistake of trying to launch with a bucketful of features when you should put out a few and test it in Beta

What are the top three lessons you've learned as an entrepreneur?

  1. I trust too easily so have learned how to always ask for references
  2. I run away with ideas and before long I have built this gigantic platform in my head which I have learned over a period of time to trim and cut back.
  3. I almost have no patience when work doesn't get done. I learned how to be a little more patient.

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