Once you are an Entrepreneur, you are an Entrepreneur. You really wish not to go back to work for any reason what-so-ever. However, being an Entrepreneur opens you a whole new world of challenges. How much ever you plan, what ever you plan, you will come to terms with the uncertainty and this keeps knocking everyday in your journey. Over…
Category: Experience
The power of being unreasonable
There is one thing which I learned in the last ten years, being unreasonable. Even if it is not in the preview, often people go out of the way and respond to you when you ask. After I started sales for my product, in the last three months, I have only been doing reference sales. I reach out to people…
How to select the best idea to pursue?
When I decided to work on my idea, the first thing which came to mind is finances. How am I going to use less money and bring out the best product? The first thing I did is to lay out a 12-month plan. How much can I spend on myself for the next 12 months and what is the buffer…
Being an Entrepreneur – 1 Year Review
Last year, in August (precisely on the 11 August), I announced to the world, that I am transitioning to be an entrepreneur. When I started, had a very big idea to build a Strategy Consulting firm focusing on Ideation and Business Model Validation for start-ups. In the last one year, have done 4 in person sessions, 2 webinars and have…
the discipline of freedom
We all want freedom. Freedom from rules and regulations, freedom from family, freedom from teachers, freedom from friends, freedom from everything. But what is freedom? Is it only attributed to what and how we want? Freedom is an attribute of mind. The mind needs to have its control over all what is happening around us and that is what the…
Is Apple losing it’s IQ?
Yesterday’s Apple event was not much awaited (let us be honest about it, at least I was not) and what apple fans are looking for is the 10th anniversary of iPhone next year. However, as with each year, we did look forward to seeing if there are any pathbreaking innovations coming out this year. The two major features which were…
3 Questions
Before you start working on your idea either as an Entrepreneur or as an Employee, there are 3 important questions you want to ask yourself: Where do I want to be? How to get there? Can I get there? Very simple, but yet powerful. Where do I want to be? During the last week of December 2015, I was restless.…
Ideas as Platform
When we have an idea, we focus on building the product. What happens eventually is that the product gets into iterations and over the period of time becomes redundant for various reasons. What we need to focus on is to build our idea as a platform. Think of it as a broader solution and the products are offerings of the…
Articulating the why
You can be successful today only if you know what you’re doing and why The most important part of being successful is understanding why you are able to be successful. Success comes with lot of factors – Luck, Connections, Knowledge and being at the right place and at the right time. Apart from all these factors, there is one…
Blackbox Thinking
Every flight is equipped with a Blackbox, which records all the conversations in the Cockpit and each and every instruction given to the plane. There is no debate on how this is helpful to track how the plane has been operational. Our brain is our blackbox and it records each and every instance of our life, making us what we…