I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else
“Stop comparing your inside view with someone else’ outside” I was listening to Omer Khan’s SaaS podcast featuring ThoughtExchange’s CEO, Dave Macleod. Dave had once stopped reading Tech Crunch. Why? To avoid seeing fabulous stories of IPO’s and Funding rounds when his company was still trying to get a grapple on their customer segment. You …
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How Startups Funding works Journey from idea to IPO of a hypothetical startup Such a great view by Adioma Infographics. I also like how it calls out how the value relatively moves from 100% of nothing is a lot less than to x % of a huge company 🙂 ******************** Ranjani Mani #reviewswithranjani #funding #infographic of the …
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The Ugly Baby and the Beast.Innovation drives growth. Run-the-business, the bottom-line.So, what should you focus on? One of the conundrum’s leaders face is ‘how do we balance innovation with driving business value’? We all know the very famous founder of Pixar – Steve Jobs but we might not have heard of the co-founder, Ed Catmull. One …
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I receive at least a couple of DMs each week from young women. Smart, competent women battling imposter syndrome. “I don’t feel confident enough to ask for the role…. what if folks judge me… why will anyone listen to me… what if they say no…” Tell you what, I struggle with it all the time. …
Reflecting on the year that is past, I was thinking about all that I wish to be in the year to come. Not goals, but the person I want to be, the people I want to meet, the things I want to make, ‘dreaming dangerously and outrageously’ and the unknowns I want to step into, …
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How can one differentiate oneself in Career and in life, I was asked, on a podcast I was recently on. Seth Godin answered this best in one of my favorite books called Linchpin, that I highly recommend. There is a village in China – Outside of Shenzen called Dafen. It is said that 60% of …
Sometimes it may feel like nothing is really the way it should be. Or that there is no progress. One of the books I read had a great rule to add perspective – The 10–10–10 rule makes long-term thinking easy and practical. … Think not only about how you feel in the moment, but also ten …
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I thought this was a great reminder. Growing up, I constantly struggled with anxiety of not doing enough. Of not being enough. Maybe it was the pressure to prove myself to my parents. Or probably self-inflicted. But there was this constant voice at the back of my head. Not smart enough. Not pretty enough. Not …
Did you know the fascinating story behind why we don’t pay for a web browser? Or how Mozilla got its name At that point in time, accessing the internet was a closed academic thing. “The key technical people didn’t want the internet to become easy to use or graphical because that would pollute the environment” …
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I was recently re-watching the series, House. There is this episode featuring a doctor who gave up on her cancer research when she was quite close to figuring a cure. She decides to drop it all one fine day – to become a sous chef and attend book clubs. There is a lot of discussion …