Are you an entrepreneur selling a product, a service or your skills/knowledge? Are you a employee selling your knowledge and skills and contributing to the growth of the company? We’re all salespeople. We’re just selling different things. It’s best to embrace this role and hone your selling skills. You have to first understand the market…
Category: experience
when the iron is hot
Opportunities are in front of us. Some see it. Some don’t. Let’s focus on the ones that see the opportunity. The ones who see the opportunity can do few things. See it and jump into the opportunity. See it and decide not to do it. See it and not make any decision on it. Three…
Forgiveness works in funny ways
Phil Hellmuth is an American professional poker player who has won a record fourteen World Series of Poker bracelets. I’m not a poker player nor have any interest in poker. However, what drew me to listen to Phil’s conversation with Tim Ferriss was this quote by Phil. “The difference between your best and your worst? The perception…
Grepsr is Making an Impact in Nepal
Recently, I started a list of tech companies making an impact in Nepal based on the growth of the company in the last 5 years, innovative product or service of the company, local buzz around the company, company culture etc. In the first blog of this series, I talked about Fusemachines. 2. Grepsr Started in…
Teachers that shaped me…
I had a teacher, Sandra Ortiz-Del Valle at the Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities who had a lot of influence on me. I got to know about Ms. Ortiz (as she was fondly known in high school) through my older brother. Later on, I was part of her Weight training class and got to…
Your First Sale
Entrepreneurship is risky. You don’t know how your business model will do in the marketplace. You use the knowledge, skills and experiences to create the revenue model that you hope will bring revenue to your business. Yet the real test comes when you get out there in the real world. You never know when your…
Developing talent in Nepal
Nepal has a lot of raw talent. I mean its amazing how much talent is out here. I am frequently amazed to meet young people who are hungry, driven and ambitious. However, that raw talent has to be polished, groomed and mentored. This is going to come with the right platform for the youth and…
Building a company culture
Leaders build culture. In any organization or group, the leader sets the tone or creates its culture. It’s up to you to decide what direction the organization should take. As a leader, I believe its important for them to set the culture (guidelines, best practices and values) of the organization. The leader should set the…
Are you listening?
Far too many times, we don’t listen enough. We like to talk without hearing what the other person is trying to say. Are you actually hearing them out or just verbally expressing only what’s on your mind? Does the person you’re having a conversation with feel comfortable sharing his or her thoughts? Yes, you have…
Looking back at 2016
For me, 2016 was a stellar year. In 2016, I took on new challenges, discovered fantastic places and met so many amazing people all around the world. Some of the highlights in 2016 include: February -Presented on the topic “Made in Nepal” at Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand. June -Presented on the topic…
15 Minutes A Day
I started an experiment. The experiment is to allocate 15 minutes each day to learn something new. There is no shortage of resources to learn from in today’s world. Connect to the internet from any corner of the world and you enter an universe where you can learn anything and as much as you want….
Just get started
Lots of times we overthink to get started on a project, a task or an assignment. We think of all the challenges ahead of us. With each thought, the project looks bigger, daunting and unattainable. Until you get started. When I was first contemplating of starting my own website (this one), I had an idea about…
Radio conversation with Himali Sworharu on Visit Lumbini Year 2012
I recently talked with Sahadev Poudel who runs a program titled Himali Sworharu. In that program, he started a new series titled Post Card from Nepal where Sahadev and I will talk about various positive news and activities that are taking place in Nepal. Here is our first radio conversation talking about Visit Lumbini Year…
Entrepreneurship club at Prime College
I will be speaking on Entrepreneurship at Prime College on July 13, 2012. The group has invited me to speak on skills needed to become an entrepreneur, challenges and opportunities of entrepreneurship in Nepal and other aspects of entrepreneurship. I am looking forward to the interaction with the students.
Waiting to execute
A lot of great ideas never see the light of day. This can happen for myriad reasons. Sometimes its the management that takes too much time understanding the idea, at other times it stays in the pipeline for a perfect execution. Yet companies succeed and fail depending on the idea’s execution. So if you…