2015 is not over until its over
As December approaches and 2015 grinds to an end, a lot of the hopes and attention is shifting to 2016. This is rightly so. However, 2015 is not over until it is over. Things can still happen this year, the …
Excellence and Execution
I have observed a growing set of people who say they are committed to excellence. Trying to achieve the best possible result everytime. However, I also observed that even though they say they want excellence, the final result is not …
Retracting my steps
After the joy of seeing Jamsa take some baby steps, I got fueled up and motivated to scale it up, go bigger. It didn’t work out. We started by building out a bigger system that could scale properly – allowing …
When you do not have as much money as the competition
You should forget about out-spending them or competing on price. You should set out to out-smart them, out-think them. So, when all your competitors are running around and raising money, running all over the place and seemingly taking over the …
Hyping and delivering the real deal
I follow a lot of tech startups and companies around the world and humor myself with all the money they are raising from investors at really crazy valuations. These past 24 hours, after reading the Mashable article titled: High-flying tech …
Adding some value
I think we should be more obsessed with looking at ways to add value to people than collecting their money. Money is important of course, but not more important than adding value with your work. If you are too obsessed …
When we fail to hit the target
We tend to blame ourselves. Kick ourselves, bring out the hammer and start hitting down on ourselves when we fail to hit our set targets. It does not have to be like that. There are people out there, too scared …
Hope and Pray
Many people want to run their life with the hope and pray model. Living day-to-day just praying and hoping for a better tomorrow. There is no actual, serious steps been taken towards doing anything serious. Many graduates are hoping and …
Balling like Amazon
I recently read an article about how Amazon now more or less owns the internet e-commerce space (or at least in Europe and North America). The article points out that the quest to own online retail took Amazon a long …
Quality from quantity
A great way to find quality ideas and improve overall creativity is by simply trying to pump out as much work as you can. If you make an habit of increasing the quantity of work you ship out or decide …