HackerEarth is a platform with over 1 million users from more than 100 locations worldwide and 500+ paying customers from 20 countries. It has 117 employees across 3 offices and has generated early single-digit-million-dollars in revenue. The document provides advice and perspectives on entrepreneurship, including the importance of dreaming big, believing in yourself, gaining knowledge through hard work, choosing friends and ideas wisely, embracing competition, and viewing fundraising as a means rather than the end goal of building a successful company.

2. Some facts about HackerEarth
1. 500+ paying customers from 20 countries
2. 1M+ users from 100+ locations worldwide
3. Early single-digit-million-dollars in revenue
4. 117 employees
5. Offices in 3 locations
6. Partners in US and Japan

4. It’s important to dream
Dream fuels ambition, ambition breeds passion

5. Believe in yourself
This the biggest thing between success and failure!

6. Knowledge is power
You don’t become a physicist by just reading physics

7. Hard work is everything
No man every became successful without hard work

8. Try different things
The kind of exposure you can get in college is unparalleled

9. Choose your friends wisely
Your peer group is the limiting reagent

10. Be wary of fads
Weak people create these fads to protect themselves

12. Execution >> Idea
Some one has already thought of the idea that you have

13. TEAM defines a Startup
Strong teams can turn around bad ideas to big companies

14. Solve a Real Problem
It’s only the problem matters and nothing else

15. Competition is good – embrace it
Worry about a competitor only when they have a superior product

16. Fundraising is not even a milestone, leave alone the end-goal
It’s just another thing you need to do to build a company

17. Prepare for the grind
It’s going to take too much out of you as a founder

19. Money is just a consequence of your business, never the
objective

20. You never loose, you either win or you learn

21. Be kind, you will always get it back

22. It’s no point doing it if you are not enjoying it

23. Life is a marathon, not a sprint

24. The point is in the journey

25. The question is not Why Entrepreneurship
It’s one of the few ways in which you can create an impact bigger than
you

26. Why us?
We are some of the best equipped to do something like this

27. Why now?
Because there is never a better time than now

28. You either be the change or you stop complaining