Startup founders and small business owners often squirm at the idea of having a CFO in their business. I mean I get it, the value of…
Fundraising is for go-getters, don’t waste your time and get ready!
“We are all better off the more entrepreneurship there is in the world”
We are thrilled to welcome Ken Chenault to the General Catalyst family as chairman and a…
What if what you believe to be true isn’t true at all?
In case you hadn’t noticed, 4 billion people, and counting are going to need more disruptive businesses and there is no shortage of problems for founders to address.
Becoming successful and living the good life would be a dream come true, for many of us.
Some of us work very hard at our jobs, and may not even be spending time with the people that matter the most to us.
Now that I have a nine-month-old, I feel sufficiently qualified to speak up about topics related to…
From 2012 through 2017 I worked for three venture capital funds: Tigerlabs, Beta Bridge…
The health of Bill’s wife took a nosedive the same week that Sanjay was fired. Her…
I need to get something off my chest. Being an entrepreneur is stressful on the best of days. Running a purpose-driven organization doubly so. Add in being knee-deep in a Series A round of…
Remember SkyMall, that magazine of novelties and trinkets that was in every seat pocket on…
Safdar Gohir now had the proper instrument. He concludes, however, that even without singularity AI will have a large impact on the nature of many jobs, and a significant impact on the nature of war. If people know of Uncle Saff, they are inclined to dismiss or…
How’d it go? You tell me.
“The haters, the doubters are all drinking champaign on the top deck of the the Titanic, and we…
By: Karen Jenson
Wake up at 6:30 and take 5–10 mins slowly waking up rather than jumping straight out of the bed.
Networking with like-minded people.
A review of two project / task management apps for organizing day-to-day to-dos as well as tracking larger projects.
“Fire is the most tolerable third party.” — Henry David Thoreau
I’ve been part of CodersFirst for 6 months now and it’s incredible to think how much progress I’ve made…
My experience in PRESTIGE HIJAB
There are a lot of startup companies out there — 75,000 plus according to AngelList. Time to break through the noise and find the top players.
How do you make money in a world where the cost of creation, duplication, distribution, and storage approach zero? It is a common (and tricky) question I get asked quite a bit after one of my sessions in “exponential thinking.”
I could not agree more with that 30 day challenge.
I started intentionally 3 new skills every month for the past 5 months now.
The experience has been phenomenal. You are absolutely right, it does change a life.
Why some people are hugely successful and others are not so successful? Even after finding the direction, identifying the path, many of us tasted only a moderate success. What makes a few of us as ‘Winners’?.
Quick note: I’ve stopped writing on Medium. You can read this piece on my blog here.
XAVION 2018
2017 was an exciting year for us. We launched StartupX Foundry on 2nd and 3rd May 2017…
A report about the development of Ely, a French start-up (without VC funding) made to remove…
This is the story of an amazing attempt to organize an ice hockey tournament high in the Himalayan mountains of Ladakh in India. The pilot program of The Hockey Foundation originated from a 2009 volunteer trip to Ladakh, in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, by hockey coach…
It was the year of 2004. The Internet was still evolving. Facebook was almost…
Are you an entrepreneur in the UK? Consider yourself lucky!
Homework. Many students hate it. Many have only one goal: get it done as quickly as possible because they’d rather do anything else with their time.
And I don’t blame them.
Here at Nellienoo we love nothing better than listening to a podcast, whether we are…
A hypomanic’s life is a rather interesting one. One day you are on a high and touching the sky, another day on an ultra low and want to crawl into a ball (I have since discovered that hunger and depression are half brothers, once you feel depressed, make sure to eat). There…
Business owners and entrepreneurs are not the same — but similar. Business owners are entrepreneurs whether they know it or not. If we think of entrepreneurship as a way of being, we can see a scale of entrepreneurism. The scale…
A bestselling book doesn’t need a bestselling cover designer or a bestselling editor.
What it really needs is a bestselling writer.
Medicilon has extensive experience of performing stability studies on active pharmaceutical ingredients, early prototype formulations and finished dosage forms. Stability testing is performed according to FDA-ICH guidelines, client approved protocols and…
Very intriguing point- the scary thing about this is that we won’t even know when this happens!
In the last lesson I told you how I decided to do something I thought would help me get the skills I needed to finally learn how to do client SEO..
I took another day job…
If, somehow, you haven’t seen the incredibly powerful Ted Talk by Simon Sinek, here it is. Go watch it. Now.
Many founders, especially ones with a technical background, come up with a great idea and immediately jump into building it. This is the quintessential Fire, Ready, Aim! and unfortunately it is really setting yourself up for failure. If you’re…
We always have this moment in our lives when we feel that thrill of excitement whenever we have this great…
And so it goes: poof!
[January 30, 2018] Welcome to our first issue of the year!
I was sitting at my kitchen counter about a half-bottle of wine deep when I just decided that I needed to put on a music festival. This was last August — I promptly sent a text to my soon-to-be partner Peter asking if he was down to create a major…
Anxiety:
NOTE: This post originally appeared on Forbes.com
As a CEO, smart time management is critical to success. Let me tell you a dirty little secret: It doesn’t always come naturally, especially to entrepreneurs…
Hello all,
The material you provide is valuable. But my focus is not on that first. It is on your working to bring this into a way of thinking for managers. My work is organizational consulting for large enterprise, and my books…
Setting your sales goals is a fundamental step in being able to set up day to day efforts — whether it is just you or a…
What a great story with ideas and insights from so many pros and industry leaders. There is also a consistent theme here worth noting — so many talked about the importance of learning, of interpersonal skills that not only put them in the center, but…
As technology grew, commercialization moved from the university research lab to start-up…
Millennials have such a bad reputation when it comes to the workforce. The old heads say we…
Music Industry Rule#9: 30 Minutes of Content
When someone gives your music a chance you have to take that opportunity to bring them into the artist’s world for as long as you can so 1 or 2 songs just isn’t enough material. You need to provide at least 30 minutes of engaging content to have a chance at turning a potential…
In order to be comfortable with the new things I must do in order to be rich, I will most probably need to do things which are forbidden according to my current Values & Beliefs.
New currencies. What can go wrong?
By Stephen Jackson
Il y a un mois, tu prenais de nouvelles résolutions
An entrepreneur’s primary role is to sell. At any given point the entrepreneur is…
Friday Inspiration is a selection of the latest innovative ideas we would like to share with our community every week.
The release of Bloomberg 2018 Innovation Index motivated this focus-article around the French…
Thanks Jim! So glad you were able to experience the medicine. Thank your for reading and sharing!
When you’ve always worked in the startup world business school can seem very foreign…
Finding the right money for your growing business is inextricably linked to finding the right audience who will pay you what your products or services deserve. As most entrepreneurs know, a growing customer base attracts investment. Being…
Thanks for reading and sharing Jonny. I agree that aya experiences are very tough to capture in words. I too journal after every ceremony. It certainly helps me remember what I’ve learned but much of the learning is given to us in our own personal experiences that are tough to explain to others in the profound way by which they hit home through our…
Story of 2 Indian guys from middle class families dreaming to make it big. Will they make it or will they…..
“School days were the best days”, says everyone who is not in school anymore. Typically it doesn’t feel like it…
Hey Medium, this is our story about a transition from the music world, to the gaming world.
How can workbeans help a customer or an employer or a startup or an enterprise or a business man?
It´s been a long since I don´t write here. The main reason for that is because I was focused in my entrepreneur project. Do you want to know about it? Keep reading…
First, let´s go back to my first article here called “Kick-off: ready, start, go!” when I made…
The JMKeynes quote made me laugh: “Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent. Yup — and it’s a signal that something needs to change. Your “The best marketers in the world don’t tell you they’re marketers,” also jumped out. You make a great case for developing a personal style and allowing it to shine forth. Great post, thanks.
Once when I was a kid, my mother brought home a Rubik’s cube.
Its complexity, yet, its simplicity made me got addicted to the challenge of solving it. After almost a week of pure frustration…
Fear, as described in the dictionary, is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely…
When I mention to people that I find LinkedIn really useful and that I have actually earned business from LinkedIn — they are surprised.
I understand why this book was a New York Times bestseller and sold millions of copies and every entrepreneur should buy it and read it to understand themselves and to make sure they are not blocking their own success. Yes, you hear that well, in most of the case…
If this is your first time reading an MVE post make sure to READ THIS FIRST. TLDR: No, seriously, click the link. The MVE is a daily sketch where I throw down my activities and thoughts into a quick and simple format, hopefully, giving you a little…
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Last week, France’s capital city is in the spotlight: Paris was granted the European…
Happy opposite day! I’m going to show you my top 10 ways to annoy your visitors … because you might do the opposite and get better results.
Most people are always aware of what people thinks about them and that’s a waste of your fucking time.
Why I have to waste my glorious time with people I don’t give a fuck? Tell me why :)
Learn additional skills are always better chance to new growth in the career. If you want to gain an experience in professional career in bakery, then bakery classes Delhi are here to provide you with a bright…
Bootstrapping — pulling your own finances and making very smart and responsible choices with your money.
B2B — Business to business, or selling as a company to another one.
B2C — Business to consumer, or selling as a company to your end customer (a private citizen)
How do you define “success”?
Part 1
When you are in charge of posting to a social media account, one of the things you have to…
As an athlete, one of the biggest problems you will face is controlling your burn…
One of the best things that I have learnt is that holding onto that grudge, being angry with that person, blaming someone or something for the wrong doings in your life, for your lack of passion and drive.
It’s true. I did it. I made absolutely NO money by blogging in 2017.
When you think about it, it’s quite the accomplishment.
Making absolutely no money at all means that I showed absolute consistency in NOT BLOGGING.
If you truly want to be successful, you have to be willing to do whatyour competition isn’t.
And that means in every regard!
I love working with innovation! I’ve always been considered a “man of ideas”…
A personal brand is what makes you unique and what value someone can get out of interacting with you or doing business.
Sure, people may be too obsessed with the term personal branding, but we need to thinking about how to create the most value for everyone. That value creation can be in the form of content, services…
It’s been a week since La French Touch Conference (un)San Francisco and we’re still thrilled! What a day of…
“ Motivation is a theoretical construct used to explain behavior. It represents the reasons for people’s actions, desires, and needs. Motivation can also be defined as one’s direction to behavior, or what causes a person to want to repeat a behavior and vice versa.”
The trend of opting entrepreneurship as a field is increasing. Moreover, media and internet are also boosting motivation to adopt it as a profession. People are working on getting a proper education to come in this field. Whereas…
Definitely agree. It kind of means the same, but I really like how Jocko Willink puts it. It’s just the way to say it.
Instead of saying the right time doesn’t exact, he says it does and that it’s “Right Now”.
He’s a pretty scary dude but quite convincing, you can have a look at this 2-min video, I love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2lUnKRo0g
“One small step for the man, a giant leap for the mankind”Z Nation Lab (ZNL) in the recently held Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) In Hyderabad, India, announced its own small step: We are taking our Bootcamp to Silicon Valley. ZNL formed a…
And it’s flipping amazing to reap the rewards when we figure it out!!
Don’t Caught up Yourself in Luxury Lifestyle
I see lot of Entrepreneurs they worked very hard every day to Get Customers Attention , They worked to get more traction, But After Doing All this, They Start Getting Hard Money After Years of Work, and Than they started doing something that breaks them , they buy a fancy car…
It’s difficult to find new opportunities with a scarcity mindset.
A scarcity mindset by nature, focuses on limitations and hurdles, forcing attention to be diverted from what’s possible to what’s not.
I no longer give a flying f#*&
Post 2.
Let me clarify, for this process to succeed I need to personally ignore the ‘haters’, the criticism, the doubt and self-doubt that I have already given too much thought too and although I’m yet to receive massive criticisms, to my work and future projects as…
There is being “busy” and being “productive”. I’ve seen many be in constant motion without achieving any result, then claim to be productive. For me, getting to a “goal” is a series of steps. Every step completed gets me closer to the goal.
