It’s easy to look at problems and say there’s no opportunity there. It’s easy to give up when faced with challenges. Yet if you are aspiring to become an entrepreneur or are an entrepreneur right now, problems and challenges are what you thrive in. Problems and challenges test you, your idea/passion, how much grit you…
Month: October 2018
The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
Being a huge fan of Kobe Bryant, I can’t wait to get this book The Mamba Mentality: How I Play. The book’s Amazon page goes like this: The first book from the basketball superstar Kobe Bryant―a lavish, deep dive inside the mind of one of the most revered athletes of all time. In the wake of…
Prithvi Narayan Shah’s conquest of Kathmandu
I came across an informative and insightful podcast on How Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered Kathmandu valley on The Record. The podcast was beautifully narrated by Father Ludwig Francis Stiller who was a dedicated historian and scholar of Nepali history. I needed to know the history and am so glad to have found this podcast. I had been…
Smart Cities: Kathmandu
How do we make Kathmandu a smart city? How do we manage the growing traffic congestions, air quality, complex address systems among many things in the capital and then eventually in all cities of Nepal? Here’s a quick look into how the city of Palo Alto is using technology to address its urban needs.
small critical steps
If Pema wants to write for the national newspaper, he needs to come up with a good story, content and the right length (over 1200 words). Just pondering on the possible topic and how much he will get paid once the article gets published won’t be of much help now. Pema needs to take certain…
The Purpose Story
When does a company need to integrate a social purpose to their existence? As soon as the company is formed? When there are 40-50 full time employees? How about 100-200 or 500+ employees? It’s a question to definitely ponder upon for the company’s founder(s), board or management team/employees. John Wood states in his book, Purpose, Incorporated: Turning…
Venture Talk with Rajeev Amatya
Rajeev Amatya, Managing Director at daraz.com.np will discuss the “Future of E-Commerce in Nepal” on Monday, October 8th, 2018 at Nepal Tourism Board Hall (Bhrikutimandap) from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. I wrote a blog E-commerce in Nepal heats up, where I shared my assumptions on what would happen in the next 3-5 years in Nepal’s ecommerce scene….