I wrote previously about the cash flow issues my business was facing. And this resulted in me having to delay the salary payments for my staff by 2 WEEKS in the short history of my company. And it was funny in a way that it happened at the same time my first employee was completing his first year with 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 ...
The cash flow woes of my sole client seems to be continuing. More than that, he is now running out of projects. So we are heading towards a permanent death of cash flow and it seems that with that my business might also wind up! My client hasn’t landed any new projects and the ones we are working on are ...
I've been driving my Kia Sportage 2011 for about two weeks now. I thought o recording my first impressions of the vehicle before it grows on me and I take the new features for granted. Amazingly I put my money down without test driving. So you can say it was a love at first sight over it's looks. Peter Schreyer's ...
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 ...
It's almost mid April. New year is just a day away. And we have wrapped up the first financial year for the company. Well, not a full financial year. We've been operational for eight months of the financial year. That's 2/3 of the year. While my accounts are not yet ratified by my auditors, thanks to the online accounting solution ...
February is almost over and it’s a bit late to be publishing the goals for this year. But as it happened, these goals were there on my mind, just that I never got around to putting them down in writing. For the last year, in January 2010, I laid down some targets (wonder why I didn’t call them ‘goals’ back ...
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, ...
Watched this interesting TED talk by Jason Fried of 37Signals fame, author of Rework (which I am in the process of reading). He is one of the guys who is not afraid to say out loud what he thinks, even if it is against the conventional wisdom. My intention with this post is not to explain or transcribe what he ...
When I started out my company I has this un-written principle, where I said I was not going to hire from the companies that I previously worked at. Since I was still in very good terms with the management of those companies I didn’t want to create any frictions in those relationships by getting their people. But as we grow ...
This is something that I have been thinking a lot about lately. I am in the process of building a company, and I want to build a great one at that. And I am going to be honest. I am clueless on how to go about it, technically. So, the approach that I am taking is to build a company ...
I have blogged about us getting a new office. And since last Thursday, we've been there. We have a small office warming function. We didn't invite a lot of people, just had the team and family. We had a small religious blessing at the start and then we kicked off our work. We were all settled in and work started ...
AS I had mentioned in my previous posts we are setting up a new office. I am now a veteran in setting up offices. This is the third office I am setting up from scratch, and the second one for my self. So it makes it much more pleasurable. Now that the lease is finalized (I mentioned we settled for ...
We are getting into hiring mode again. The whole reason behind our decision to set up a new office was because we wanted to have more space to get more people in. Looking back at my team one thing that is pretty obvious is that we lack diversity in certain dimensions. I mean, we come from different back grounds and ...
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 ...