How to Start a Startup note #5

Today I spent listing to Paul Graham in the how to start a startup series lecture. Paul is fucking awesome, full of fun, honesty & blunt in giving an opinion. We need more such motivators in our startup ecosystem. My notes from his lecture: Listen to your intuition Work with people whom you respect and have known long …

How to Start a Startup note #4

Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder by Reid Hoffman   My notes for his class: Network network network. VC always tends to invest in company with co-founders as they compliment each other. Right place to start a right business like finance related startup makes …

How to Start a Startup note #3

Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching Lecture 9: How to Raise Money and Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and Parker Conrad had an  interesting take on it. Some of my notes from the class: Build something awesome which pulls  VC to you. Most VC invest in team, past success of the founders & product. If …

3 day 3 magic following James Altucher posts.

Last evening I realized the fact following James Altucher has done wonders for me. I made note of 3 things which I followed and worked well for me in span of past 3 days. I was excited and tweeted about same.   1. Power of asking. I suck at writing, I make grammatical mistakes. I …

How to Start a Startup note #2

I know everyone is watching, reading, following @sama course how to start a startup. Today spent sometime watching Brian Chesky, founder Airbnb, he shared interesting story about Airbnb, how it started and all. I am keeping this notes for myself, if it helps someone else good karma gets added on me.  🙂 An idea is important …

Notes from barcamp, bangalore on happiness.

For a change I spoke about happiness this time during Barcamp bangalore event.  I think we had 10-12 people out in cafeteria for this session. I am a big fan of James Altucher & Kamal Ravikant, they are very successful in life. I rate them as my happiness mentor. Since barcamp is a unconference i …