The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something
Throughout our lives we have this sense of Deja Vu, of meeting people/personalities and you get this feeling man I wish never ever work with this person again. But heres a perspective, our experiences make us who we are. Instead of taking flight response and shunning to person, work with them for just once. You will learn a thing or two about human nature and dynamics of dealing with it.
I call it Pain Karma, the more pain you take today the lesser difficulty you will have dealing with them later in you life. So go ahead, credit some Pain Karma in you account.
Its been two years, since Fafadia Tech is pursuing its passion for helping small and medium enterprise becoming more efficient reliable and competitive. Following are some of the insights I would like to share with the world with having some success and many failures over course of almost two years.
- SMEs are man power & cash constrained
- SMEs are afraid of complex systems
- SMEs care more about service than product
They most certainly don’t care about your SaaS based business model, neither do they care if you Python based Cloud Computing infrastructure is relevant.
Its been couple of years since Joe Armstrong’s book has been lying in my bookshelf. Since I have time to upgrade myself time to learn little erlang programming. One of the things that attracted me towards learning erlang is the fact that it allows hot swapping. I can’t think of practical application but sure seems like an interesting feature. On the side-node Facebook’s Thrift has code generators for erlang. What this implies is you can have client binding in different languages.
Would like to blog more about it, as soon as I have something worthy.
Culture defines who we are, what we do. Its the essential DNA that dictates behavior when exposed to risk, taking action necessary to grab opportunity. Running a company over two years, I still have a dissatisfaction towards not having spent enough time thinking about the culture of company and figuring out competitive advantage.
When I look at companies I respect the most, it seems central aspect to their uniqueness was their culture. I see common patterns emerging with respect to qualities they lived by
- Focus on constant innovation
- Taking risks, and learning from failures
- Always looking at the big picture
Like most things in life simple things are often ignored. Do you work at a company that has revolutionary culture? Do you even think about it?
Since its raining heavily in Mumbai, I decided to take some time off from routine work and surf Quora. I must tell you, its a great site for discovering content. I used to use FriendFeed, Hacker News, TechCrunch for content. But I would guess I am spending more and more time on Quora.
So found this cool recommendation on Quora on list of must watch videos for Entrepreneurs. I am going to post bullet point from the talk
- Single most important thing while pitching to VCs: YOU!.
- 18mins ideal dropoff for VCs pitch.
- Integrity, Passion, Experience, Knowledge, Skills, Leadership, Commitment, Vision, Realism and Coachable are things that VCs look at.
- Garbing attention and taking VCs for an upward ride.
- The way to do this is: Preparation
- Good: Short, short bullet points
- Better: Just headline
- Best: Only images
- Structure of a Pitch
- Company Logo
- 30 sec elevator pitch
- 2 mins business overview
- Management Team
- Market
- Product
- Business Model
- Strategic Relationship
- Competition
- Barriers to Entry
- Financial Overview
- Use of Proceeds
- Capital & Valuation
Some more tips
- Use remote
- Handouts are not presentations
- Dont read you speech
- Never ever look at your screen
Some one on Quora asked Whats the best launch strategy? Robert as usual had an amazing insight. Summary of his answer was ask the right questions.
How do I make a product so strategically important that Steve Jobs buys it within a month.
Wow! Simply amazing, why didn’t I think of this before.
Seems like reduction, that I had learned in Algorithm’s class. So I guess its the art of asking right questions, one needs to master to innovate.
Mumbai trains are always amusing, considering that average mumbaikar spends 1/3 of their professional working time in trains things get pretty interesting. Today I boarded a train from Vile Parle at 8.48 around Andheri I met this gentleman
Prof. Sandeep Desai hes an engineer, MBA graduate from NMIMS and was a Professor at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research. What a stranger like me gets an impression of him when you see him hear and speak is strength in his intentions, passion for his mission. He goes an extra mile for his mission, he raises funds for building school for the under-privileged kids by literally begging in Trains. Hats-off and thanks for showing me what power of passion and belief can do. A great lesson in entrepreneurship and humanity in general.
