What is the most important entrepreneurship lesson that I’ve learnt from the businesses that I’ve run till now? Now that was something I thought really hard about last night. I have no idea why this question got struck in my head but it would not let me sleep until I answered this to myself.

I don’t mean to toot my own horn but it was good because it was inspirational to see how many times my ventures have failed but that adrenaline to take risks never faded. Now, by failure I don’t mean failure in regular sense. What I mean is that I started my ventures to make it big but I ended up selling nearly all of them.

For most people that would mean success but for me it means that it didn’t achieve the aim I started it for. Most people would be happy with the profits they make by selling out their ventures but I was always sad to see that I had to end up selling the thing which I started to grow big.

Thinking hard the reason why, I realized a very disturbing pattern in all the ventures that didn’t make it big under me. And the reason? I was trying to do everything myself. Yes, I was trying to micromanage.

I must add that I’ve always known that micromanagement is BAD and even told it to some people. Guess what? I never realized that I was micromanaging myself. I was so crazy to make the best of my venture that I wanted to do everything myself and take care of the minutest things myself.

While I did end up doing *something* but the fact remains that I was not really able to scale it up and never reached the level I wanted to.

There goes the most important thing that I can tell you — Don’t try to wear all the hats yourself. Know your core strengths and focus on them. For everything else, hire an expert.

Yesterday I hired one of the most talented designers who I know to design an upcoming project. I just told him the basic idea of what I want the design to do and told him to not ask me anything else and come up with something good. The design he came up with was, excuse my language, absolutely fucken amazing! He not only saved me a LOT of time and effort but he came up with something I could have never.

That made me think — had I done things this way earlier, could I have been a lot more efficient? No doubt.