[balajiviswanath]

There are three essential things that are important in running a startup: Focus, Focus and Focus. ;-)

At a startup, the entrepreneurs could do build a million different things and I found it sometimes hard to curtail both my ideas and those of the other founders. For instance, in one of the months we toyed with 20 different technologies as each day some developer would come and say "why not we use platform Y & API from X to do Z?" then everybody would just start chasing all the APIs and build a simple prototype (that will get forgotten after the next day's idea). That is an extreme case, but you get the point.

Once you have focus and determination, the rest usually falls into place.