What you see above is the homepage of a company called /dev/payments circa 2010.
That company is valued at $36 billion now.
And, it is no longer called /dev/payments.
The company is Stripe.
One of the leading global payment processing…
Today I was talking to a founder I work with after I had sent her a note to hire a new team member.
She was skeptical about hiring because of current situations and market outlook.
I am sharing what I…
Do you want to make money?
Do you want to make lots of it?
Do you want a simple plan to do it?
If the answer is yes to anyone one or all of the questions above then this is…
“You can’t do everything.
You can’t do or know it all, at once.”
And, this is what I told when someone asked me, if she’ll be able to cross off an ambitious goal off of her list.
The person who…
First ask yourself if you are ready for it.
I wrote earlier that to write a good book
you need a strong reason to start and finish writing a book, and you should have something to say.
If those…
I am selective about who I work with.
This is because of two reasons.
#1
I value my time because time is the only thing we have got to live our potential and our lives.
#2
Because writing a book…
You are not someone’s judgement.
You are not your hardships.
You are not your triumphs.
You are not your past.
You are not your future even.
You are what you see
When you look at you in the mirror..
……
Social media is an echo chamber.
One that we live in for a good part of our day.
There we see most people are like us, and they talk and think like us.
It gives us a false sense of…
This is a good model for coaches, consultants, and service-based businesses.
SaaS founders, who are already running a startup and struggling to grow it, can also use it.
To put it work, you show the value of the software, tie…
You sell to get a job, even if it is not a sales job.
You sell to win a client.
You sell to get funding.
Your experience and expertise are the product.
The results you can create or the outcome…
A good book can change your life.
You don’t have to read 50 books a year to get value.
Non-readers can build a reading habit.
Here is how.
Start small.
Three minutes a day is good.
A single sentence is…
You did awesome work for a client or a boss.
They sang your praises over email or messages.
Now you want to move to a new role or get new clients and wish you had captured those praises at that…
You can’t just tell your story once and be done with it.
Unless the first time itself, the world takes note.
It’s rare. So read on.
To help people connect within you, tell story on a rolling basis.
Every couple…
People want to be happy and want to be entertained.
That’s why entertainment is big business.
It’s also tough.
That’s why today I am sharing how you can build a business by solving problems for people. In fact, this is…
During my teens, I wanted to become a professional model.
I also wanted to ace studies.
Both needed a different kind of mindset.
And these were not the only distractions pulling my mind in different directions.
I was in analysis…