A skilled professional should be respected, valued, and paid as much as someone that can be found in a particular region. With remote work and freelancing work becoming more common than ever before, companies have a global talent pool to fill their vacancies. A skilled professional based in the US would generally get paid more…
Tag: entrepreneurship
Skills Degree
What if we could have a Skills degree similar to a College degree? A Skills degree would show all the skills you have accumulated over the years. Writing skills, editing skills, sales skills, Excel skills, technical skills, marketing skills and more skills. In a knowledge economy, our skills are our biggest assets. Skills are learnable…
Silicon Peaks
Pukar C. Hamal, Founder and CEO of SecurityPal, recently coined the termĀ Silicon PeaksĀ to capture the growing startup ecosystem of Nepal. On his LinkedIn page, Pukar wrote that “The Himalayas have always been a source of inspiration for me. And given that 8 out of the worlds 14 highest mountains are located here including the highest…
Engaging Company Culture
Engaging company cultures have empowered, creative, and growth oriented team members leading company culture events. Through empowerment, employees are given the decision making authority and independence to decide what activities bring out the best in the team. Through creativity, employees can be resourceful and come up with activities that are out of the box and…
Starting your venture
Bill Gross said in a TEDTalk that timing was the single most important attribute to startup success. There’s no science to when’s a good time to start a venture. However, waiting for the idea to be perfect, or wanting to have all the “necessary” data points in the world to make the launch decision or…
From Entrepreneur to Empowerer
How can entrepreneurs grow their startup? The qualities that help entrepreneurs start their businesses might not be the same that will help take the startup to the next level. There will still be challenges that entrepreneurs will face when they have hired all the “right people” for the different roles of the company. If the…
Greatness through Giving
We can achieve greatness by focusing our energy on helping and supporting others. When we focus on helping others through what we can give, we put good energy into the universe. To achieve our goals, we collaborate with people because greatness is not a sole journey or destination. The more energy you commit into inspiring…
1,000 business cards
We were new to entrepreneurship. My friend was starting to sell custom made jewelry. He reached out to me to help him with business development work. One of the first purchases we made was to put an order of 1000 business cards, each. Well we ended up using probably 50 a piece in the next…
The island without sandals
There was an island called Without Sandals. A budding salesperson from a nearby Town A visited the island and saw that no one at this island was wearing sandals. The salesperson went back to the town and concluded that there are no opportunities to sell any sandals because no one would wear them. Another budding…
Why pay for it?
There’s a big difference of results between doing it on your own (for something you’re not so good at) compared to hiring a professional to do it. For tasks that you could kind of do it, have an idea about it or know a little bit, it’s better to go with a professional most times….
The best time to do a startup is…
NOW. Literally now. If you are thinking about doing a startup, want to be an entrepreneur or create something of your own, there is no better time than RIGHT NOW. There is no uniform age, timeline, state, region, phase, moment or any other factor that guarantees the best time to do a startup. I like…
Transitioning from an employee to an employer
Entrepreneurship can be a beautiful journey. Many individuals enter the workforce and work for several years before striking out on their own. Some individuals go straight into entrepreneurship before working for anyone else. There are several questions/scenarios that an aspiring entrepreneur(s) considers when deciding to stay in the current job (if working) to going completely…
Is success really “self-made”?
We often see the below headline in the media (blogs, magazines, articles etc.) to describe an individual or founders’ success. They were self-made billionaires. They were self-made entrepreneurs. Then the rest of the media coverage goes something like this… Person A’s company is now worth a billion dollars. Having started in her garage four years…
Reflections from running a startup
Once upon a time, I was very passionate about creating a better platform for writers of Nepalese origin. I pitched the idea at a Startup Weekend event, met my team members there and then eventually registered a company. Reflecting on my startup journey, I can share some learnings. -Move fast with your product/service idea. Develop…
Some valuable wisdom…
I love this paragraph from Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog. It’s about the time when he wrote about the long-term prospects of Blue Ribbon and how he saw the future. “This last line was wholly truthful. It was worth shooting for. If Blue Ribbon went bust, I’d have no money, and I’d be crushed. But I’d…
Until it’s done
The risk takers love the challenge. Sometimes the “challenge” is handed to them; other times they chase the challenge. While the risk takers are busy chasing the challenge/opportunity, the other 80% are looking to do what everyone else does. I sincerely feel it’s rare that one achieves huge success on the first try. The risk…
Root of innovation
Competition breeds innovation. It’s a survival thing. If you’re not innovating when the competition is coming at you, then you’re gone. There are thousands of websites (around 140,000 per day) that pop up on the internet. However, our daily visits are on a particular few websites where we spend most of our times. Why is…
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…
Entrepreneurship
My presentation on Why Entrepreneurship? at Prime College on July 13, 2012: Entrepreneurship Presentation