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Perhaps one small flaw or behavior we barely even recognize is the only thing that’s keeping us from where we want to be. In his book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, Marshall Goldsmith has a “to stop” list rather than one listing what “to do”. This “to stop” list is designed to…

Perhaps one small flaw or behavior we barely even recognize is the only thing that’s keeping us from where we want to be. In his book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, Marshall Goldsmith has a “to stop” list rather than one listing what “to do”. This “to stop” list is designed to…

Perhaps one small flaw or behavior we barely even recognize is the only thing that’s keeping us from where we want to be. In his book “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, Marshall Goldsmith has a “to stop” list rather than one listing what “to do”. This “to stop” list is designed to…

The Lean Startup is about learning what your customers really want. It’s about testing your vision continuously, adapting and adjusting before it’s too late. Now is the time to think Lean. Do read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries for some insights. Below are my notes from the book. A startup is a human institution…

And if you are indeed building one, did you ask yourself the Engineering Question, the Timing Question, the Monopoly Question, the People Question, the Distribution Question, the Durability Question, and the Secret Question? Lots of notes from Zero to One by Peter Theil. Lot of contrarian thinking and thoughtful advice. Make sure you read this…

A wonderful book that can throw lot of insights on Startup culture, conflicts between founders and how ideas are hatched and grow! What role does a Founder’s past have on the company she is founding? Author gives us a good enough glimpse of their hometown, childhood and college to be able to relate with their context…

A story extract from his biography. Somehow this story helped me understand him better. This is a good book to read on many counts. Easy to read. Rehashes the major events and personalities of Personal Computing story from 1970’s to 2014. A good source of how many Apple’s products birthed and evolved — interesting for…

What if we all get a chance to observe an Entrepreneur working? If such a chance is hard to come by, a candid book on this subject can give some answers to all these questions. It is Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog, the founder of Nike. The book is a memoir of Phil Knight on his…

Some excerpts from Steve Job’s Stanford Commencement Speech are below. The full text is available here. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. […] You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them…

The Company! The company is one of the most amazing inventions of humans, this abstract construct that’s incredibly powerful. Even so, for me, it’s about the products. It’s about working together with really fun, smart, creative people and making wonderful things. It’s not about the money. What a company is, then, is a group of…