I keep meeting people around. That’s my job, I am in sales. Some incidents have been so funny, where the buy side thinks that pedigree and temporary designation give them power for life. Those fresh graduates are coming out of college and blabbering jargon to influence and impress. Most are insecure and clueless about where …
Author Archives: Atul
connect
Few people dislike making intros.I don’t understand the reason behind it.It could be about their reputation or guarding their networks.I have come across many such folks. We at Taghash got lucky.Our customers connected us to many others.Here in Dubai, I have had meetings with customers intros.They opened up their contact list for the intros.We are …
age
Age is just a number.Something that I get reminded of time and again by friends around because I am old. What I feel about age is the collection of our experience.Some age early because of the hardship they have gone through while growing up. Some friends in their late thirties act like toddlers and cry …
faith
We need to have faith in our actions. Be it love or entrepreneurship. We have to plunge into it when decided with all our conviction. When we have faith, we are all confident, and as a result, we work with our 100%. People give up too soon. Some enter for the aura, glitz, or to …
Love
Valentine’s Day funfair created by marketers and consumerists has just passed. Many friends asked me about my plans, and I replied with a laugh. We are living in a reel world. Unless you showed it to others, it did not happen. Social media is full of displays of love because it’s Valentine’s Day. With time …
relationships
What works in sales is relationships, my little learning in the journey of taghash. Many young professionals forget this fact. They see it in numbers and succumb to the pressure. People buy from people they like. People believe in originality. When in sales, solving customers’ pain should be supreme. You have to have a level …
They
Our fear of “they” stops us from doing the invincible.Most of us are tamed and fearful.Social conditioning is so prevalent that any decision in life ends up keeping others in the center.In most cases, nothing moves because of the village’s approval. The baggage of others ends up burdening us.I have met with a dozen elderly …
control
The curiosity of a toddler guarantees they are breakfree. You tell them not to touch the lamp, and they will burn their fingers touching it. They are like water and wind. Flowing in their own rhythm, not used to any boundary. Some parents kill that curious bit from their inception. They try to educate and …
one
The power of one is magnificent. 1/You need one yes out of all no’s to find the love of your life.2/You need one friend willing to quit his full-time gig and work with you in the garage to build something big.3/You need one idea to keep leading your life to eternity.4/You need one lead investor …
Death
Death is the reality of life. Yet we are scared of it. We keep planning for the future. We continue finding reasons for postponing all we want to achieve. What is the incentive for mountaineer climbing the event when they know they are walking on their death trial? They accept death and live their life …