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After having failed at my first startup, and having partially succeeded in second, I couldn't agree more on those two points. The debt accrued on my first startup still haunts me. …

To me, Pomodoro sucks. You need a pomodoro only if you do not enjoy doing something. The days I tried, I felt like in jail.

I do not use that system. It was more like a framework that naturally formed based on experiences. And no. I am no where near to being successful. But I am happy though, since I ha…

To be honest, I never succeeded with goals. Those things that happen naturally , happens. Your comment made me self reflect, and I realised that , except point 4, nothing happened …

I am Indian. (I used to work for Oracle). If I were to hire, given everything else is equal , I would prefer an Indian to a non-Indian. You can attribute it to cultural bias, or wh…

We landed on our first paying customer on a product that we had been working for more than a year and half. And many more sign ups later turned profitable too. And about to release…

At http://www.reportdash.com we use backbone with backbone layout manager and jade. We have been able to design a pretty robust report and dashboard builder with just a single fron…

As someone who runs a startup,here are some personal observations. I would say, a PM has to understand the user needs, and drive the product. The former has got two parts 1. Unders…

Fully agree. I started working on it!

Yup. Truly understand that. Shall mail you a demo account. We are still work in progress, and many touch points are not the way we really wanted. A demo account is up there in our …

Shameless plug : We have been building http://www.reportdash.com with a similar target market. Datastudio appeared to be our startup killer in the beginning. But I guess, we may na…

On Education let me quote a popular writer from my place , Kamala Surayya (Madhavikutty) - "I feel formal education here makes mediocrity's out of everybody. I don't think any geni…

The best I have read from her so far is this- http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2012/10/what-goes-wrong...

My Journey In search of purpose 1. Hated working for others. One day manager refused to grant hike (in salary). Googled for a resignation letter, and mailed him the first one found…

I have no problem in wishing to be rich. I have no problem is wishing to be powerful. I have a problem only when I want to be richer than someone else. Why on earth do I want to de…

"We all want exact same thing" - May be, but not every one want that 'same thing' to the same degree. Any commendable achievement in one field is often at the expense of something …

"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid."- Einstein "Mediocrity" arises only when co…

When will this be launching?