What’s the Real Value of a Failed Idea ft. Ritukar Vijay
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🎯Your First Idea Doesn’t Have to Work. It Has to Teach You Before building Ottonomy, Ritukar Vijay’s first big idea didn’t win awards, it didn’t even get a reply. As a first-year engineering student, he applied to KVPY (IISc) with an ambitious concept: capturing solar energy at night using geostationary satellites. The idea was bold but unstructured, underdeveloped, and incomplete. The result? Silence. But that early rejection did something far more valuable. 🔻 It exposed what he didn’t know 🔻 It forced him to think clearly about objectives 🔻 It taught him how to turn curiosity into execution When he applied again, this time to the Department of Science and Technology, the proposal was sharper, focused, and realistic. That application became his first grant, funding a robotic arm…