It was an intense but a healthy discussion I was having with my co-founders. We were debating about our strategy, our positioning, how we are different than our competitors, what story we should tell to VCs so they would fund us, how can we define a new category and be a leader of that category, … Continue reading The First 10
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2017 Retrospective and 2018 Goals
My reflections on what worked well and what didn’t in 2017 and what I would continue to do and do something new in 2018. I’ve started this practice last year — to retrospect on the last year’s achievements, misses, and learnings and define the goals for the next year at the beginning of the new year. I have … Continue reading 2017 Retrospective and 2018 Goals
The Delusion of Success and Failure
How Success and Failure are dependent on each other and are also tangled with each other. I had shared this brief thought on LinkedIn the other day, but due to their number of characters limit for the post (BTW, it’s 1300), I couldn’t explain the thought in detail. So expanding it here. The Context A few … Continue reading The Delusion of Success and Failure
How To Deal With Stress
A friend called me recently out of nowhere and asked — “Dude, how do you deal with stress while running a startup? I feel so stressed every day and want to know how do you handle it”. We don’t talk that often, so I was surprised to receive a call from him and on top of that, … Continue reading How To Deal With Stress
12 Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Business Venture
A framework to choose which problem you should solve Yesterday I met few friends after many years. After everybody sharing their whereabouts, it was my turn to share what I’m working on. I explained I’m working on a new venture and also shared the details of the problem we’re solving. The first question one of the … Continue reading 12 Questions to Ask Before Starting a New Business Venture
Product Managers should be Problem Managers, not Problem Solvers
A friend of mine, who’s is a product manager at a large company shared her frustration recently that there were some reorganization and changes in her company that caused her to manage a different product than she was hired to do. I immediately resonated with her situation. I had personally experienced similar situations multiple times … Continue reading Product Managers should be Problem Managers, not Problem Solvers
Andy Rachleff on Product Market Fit
How I was wrong about some of the concepts of Product Market Fit and how Andy Rachleff clarified it. I listened to this Mixergy podcast episode with Andy Rachleff, co-founder of Benchmark Capital and founder of Wealthfront. It is an exceptionally great episode. Normally most of the podcast episodes I listened to are great and … Continue reading Andy Rachleff on Product Market Fit
