Archive for the month January 2020
If you did something right once, will you do it right again?
No guarantee.
But you can be more sure about it based on how often you do the thing in question.
It is a mix of skills and behavior.…
Startup founders, product managers, graphic designers, motion picture artists, authors, and other creative folks face this challenge often.
Where to find inspiration for their own work and creations.
Finding inspiration is not a problem. What we face is a problem…
Two things can change the trajectory of your startup and have a big impact on its growth.
How many customers you retain and refer to you, and how well you convert your leads and prospects.
If you retain your customers…
I work with startups at different stages of growth.
There are startups with predictable cash flow. There are also startups that are yet to create a sustainable system for growth.
The second type of startup is worried about where the…
Reading lifehacking articles online makes us believe that a successful and happy life is all about acquiring popular and seemingly beneficial habits like reading books, working out, sleeping for 8 hours, meditating and continuing with them.
We also like to…
Whether we like it or not, for most of us, many of our decisions are guided by prestige.
This seems spontaneous.
But it has a serious effect on how well we do in our professions but more importantly, on how…
First of all my advice is for people writing business books or books related to expertise.
Most people want to write a book for three reasons.
Expression, reputation, and money.
The expression part is easy and you get to do…
How many times have you told yourself?
This year I will do it.
It will be different this time.
And, then the year and another year goes by and your dream remains a dream.
The only way to really live…
When you reboot your laptop, all the processes in your RAM are wiped off, the RAM is cleaned up and then the computer makes a fresh start.
That allows it to work smoothly as compared to when their RAM is…
Shopify, valued at $50 billion, launched Build a Business contest for entrepreneurs in 2010. It played a big role in the growth of the then-nascent startup and has since turned into one of the world’s biggest entrepreneurial contests.
Baba Ramdev…
Are you a founder who is scared of sales?
Then this is for you.
Most businesses die because they can’t sell enough to cover their costs.
Especially in the early days when the founder is the only one doing sales.…
This post will tell you which courses to take, which conferences and meetups to go, which books to read in order to create a self-directed learning plan and get the maximum value out of them.
First of all, it depends…
In 2015, I conceived, published and pre-sold the first print run of a 100,000-word book in less than 5 months. I had never done something of that kind or scale before.
In 2017 LinkedIn chose me to be one of…
Start creating.
Words, video, voice, all are fine.
The form does not matter.
Do it for yourself but do it publicly.
That i.e. publish what you create.
Don’t worry if no one sees what you make at first.
It’s a…
Everyone wants to grow their business.
Almost no one wants to sell.
No doubt, sales can help grow a business fast.
But there are alternatives. Good ones.
One of them is identifying prospects and talking with them.
Do some profiling…