Generation-Y startup

Usually the beginning of an Entrepreneurial journey is the conception of the idea. It is what follows after that determines how successful your business will become however. Every business is unique in its goals and so the ingredients it needs to achieve them might differ, but there are certain things every Entrepreneur must include in [...]

Many young entrepreneurs are guilty of starting a Marketing campaign only after they have launched their product or their website has gone live. I have come to learn that it is a better idea starting much earlier, even before your prototype launches. Now this is a question that will certainly get varying answers from people [...]

I recently came across this website called IdealPitch and thought I needed to share with other entrepreneurs. I am personally not so big on VCs but if you’ve been involved in a start-up in the past, you know that there comes a time when you really do need funds from an external source. I am [...]

At the moment, there’s about 78million men and women who proudly represent the millennial generation in the US, and they are taking up their places in the various facets of the workforce. Just as this is happening there’s a switch in gear, there’s now a difference in how people work, when they work and what [...]

Just like it is quite hard for most members of Generation X to understand why many young adults these days would rather pay $100 for a ripped pair of jeans than $40 for one that has not been met by a blade, they find it hard to understand why they need to invest in Social [...]

I am not a fan of always being around people 24 hours a day but I don’t shy away from saying hello to people I have never seen before. I will probably not volunteer to be an event’s M.C. but give me the microphone and I will get a message across. I have never been [...]

Ever wondered what distinguishes a great business from an ordinary one? or what makes a start-up a true winner? well there is a million dollar question right there. If there was a ’success-o-meter’ that proposes the likelihood of a start-up succeeding versus failing, I am sure all the VCs and investors will own one regardless [...]

Have you ever heard that phrase that: If you just got a client, you just got married? Whether you like it or not that’s the case plain and simple. Regardless of what industry your services fall into or what your business is, the situation is always about the same. The client needs something of you [...]

Growing up as a kid, my dad always told me: “son, life is what you make of it. If you decide to go with the flow, you will end up like me but in all my years I have come to realize that people love and respect the guy that stands out.” Don’t get it [...]

Part I: You will have to ask people for things. Most of them will say “no.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self Reliance was required reading my freshman year of high school. And while the focus of that particular essay is on one’s inner strength and trust in himself, I also recall being taught the virtue of doing [...]