Building in Bhilwara taught me something Silicon Valley can't: Cash Flow is Oxygen.
We didn't have burn rates. We had savings. If we didn't sell, we didn't eat.
Building companies like Maksoft and Hazel Infotech without external capital forced a discipline that is rare today. We built products that customers paid for before they were finished.
In the current "Funding Winter," these old-school lessons of unit economics are suddenly fashionable again.
