End of a financial year and the dawn of a another. I am starting the new year with a much leaner company. Leaner, because I am running a company that has less staff. Hopefully this will ease the burden on finances and better utilize people and improve the overall quality of the output. Even though the staff has shrunk, the ...

I am gearing up to launch our first own web solution into the world. And it is opening my eyes to a whole new world of promoting a web site. This is going to be a rocky ride simply because I am new to this whole thing. All this time I’ve left this aspect of running a web site to ...

Came across this short survey on Lifehacker.com which was trying to determine the popular motivators. After filling up the option, I was shown the results and apparently a lot of people are working for the money in jobs they don’t like. Thankfully I am one of those people who are working on a job/gig that I actually like doing, ...

An interesting article at onStartups.com called Why Venture Capitalists Invest In Pigs, Not Chickens. Although I am not interested in raising venture capitol for my startup projects, it made me analyze my approach. And the result, well I ‘m a chicken. My startup web project has been, is still, and likely remain for sometime, a side project. And by ...

There is some relief, finally. My client is getting a small payment and he is going to make a partial payment to us as well. This is some relief. As we get towards the end of the month, one day at a time, my tension also goes up! The pay day is the last Friday of the month and that ...

Professionally I have improved myself over the years. From the start of my career to where I am now, I’ve come a long way. It’s not a journey of sitting tight and hoping for things to improve. It is more a story of taking risks and branching out, looking out for the next opportunity and taking some with open arms. ...

My (sole) client tells me that the next 30 to 45 days are going to be bad, he has run into a cash crunch and he probably cant make the payments. And I am not in a position to do anything about it because more than a client we are partners (in business) and I’ve seen this coming since a ...

The human existence is all about progress. Companies, governments and societies and people spend countless hours, effort and money in a bid to find better ways to do the things that we do now. As individuals, we too always strive to do things better, with less effort with time. Sometimes it’s called experience. Having done something before, having made the ...

I am not as good a finisher as a starter! That’s a fact! I have three projects that I have started, all of which have progressed and currently at different levels and here I am dreaming up yet some more solutions rather than finishing these ‘in-progress’ ones. Sometimes I amaze myself! If ideas were worth anything I think I would ...

What can I say. I am addicted! No it's not sex, drugs and music. But to start ups. Specifically to new ventures. Setting up operations. Building companies. So when an offer came my way to build a different kind of a company, which is a Systems Integration company in this case, I just couldn't say no. Knowing that I will ...

One thing I have written about before on this blog was the cash flow issues that I was personally and as the company was facing due to the cash allow issues my foreign partner was facing. This resulted in me accumulating a significant amount of outstanding payments with the partner. With the prospect of this recovering this payment being bleak ...

This is more of a personal rant than anything else. So this has nothing to do with entrepreneurship or startups. There are phases in life where you are working towards a goal or where you are working to get out of a situation like a debt. Then there comes a phase where things are moving on pretty steadily and you ...

I have got me a few toys expecting that they will keep me occupied. Like a camera and a guitar. He camera is lying in my cupboard only coming out when there is a function. And the guitar, so far it's just a total waste of money. I never signed up for the lessons to learn to play it. My ...

Being a company founder is one of the most diverse roles I have come to play in my life. This is simple because, being the founder requires you to make sure that everything goes on smoothly for the rest of the team and make sure the products get built and things do happen and make sure that the company complies ...

We have reached a point that the home office that we have been operating out of is no longer enough for us. Me and my team are currently cramped in there and it does not have any more space for any more people. And we are in a dire need to get more people or we are all going to ...

Saving as an individual is a good habit. But when it comes to small business where there is only a single or couple of owners that it is acceptable to charge all the expenses to the businesses. This also seems the theme of some of the popular books like Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. The underlying idea is ...

I have been reading Leo Babuta's minimalism blog (mnmlist.com) and it had opened my eyes. It opened my eyes to what I was doing. Hoarding stuff, upgrading stuff when the existing stuff still have life left in them. Amateurs buying professional equipment to carry out hobbies. In today's world we have far too much stuff than we need. We consume ...

They say that periods of slowdown are a good thing. That it is a time for taking a breath, tighten loose ends, plan and prepare for the next phase of growth. Personally for me, slow periods are killers. I think I perform we'll under pressure. It keeps me on my toes, makes me look for results rather than elegant solutions ...

To be honest I think I've spent more time reading about GTD than practicing it. My first brush with GTD starts in 2009. This was the time that I too a very keen interest in personal development. As usual I read a lot of things and realized that I needed a task management and productivity system if it was to ...

I had been reluctant to get into a growth phase for my business since the stressful period we experienced during this period last year. I would have literally lost a few years off my life expectancy over that stressful period. We were on the verge of shutting down the operation and letting go of people. We were even thinking of ...