Paying yourself first with time!

This blog underscores why it's vital to pay yourself first with "time" (more important than money). Specifically, it focuses lot of on working your personal goals at a time where you are most productive. Interesting read :-)

http://sidsavara.com/personal-development/more-important-than-money-paying-myself-first-with-my-time

Transparency in Startups

Today, I read a wonderful blog post by SEOMoz, a seattle based SEO company. Hands down - it's amazing how thorough it is! More importantly, it's humbling how openly they talk about their growth over the last 5 years and their lastest financing round. I think it is great value for aspiring entrepreneurs. It's another fine example of what kind of hurdles even a revenue generating startup needs to go through before raising a big round. They had trouble raising money in 2009 and 2011 before finally cracking it in 2012.

Read it for yourself and I'm sure you'll learn a hell lot of how a great pitch deck looks like!
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/mozs-18-million-venture-financing-our-story-metrics-and-future

"Bad ideas"

I just read an article - why smart people have bad ideas by paul graham http://paulgraham.com/bronze.html. I can relate to so many mistakes that we made while we were working on couple fire. It's extremely fascinating and totally worth a read!

After reading this article, I'm going to read book by Dale Carnegie on "How to win friends and influence people.

Here are my favorite quotes from the essay:

• I don't think we should discard plunging. Plunging into an idea is a good thing. The solution is at the other end: to realize that having invested time in something doesn't make it good.
• if you're starting a company that will do something cool, the aim had better be to make money and maybe be cool, not to be cool and maybe make money. It's hard enough to make money that you can't do it by accident. Unless it's your first priority, it's unlikely to happen at all.
• A familiar problem issue: of all the things we could do, is this the one with the best chance of making money?

FedEx - Wimbledon 2012

Federer is still the daddy when it comes to Wimbledon (Tennis)...

Yesterday, I got up at 5:45AM to watch the Wimbledon tennis final (it's been a while since I got up that early on a Sunday morning). The stakes are pretty high for both players - for Murray, it's the home crowd and more importantly, it's close to 75 years since someone from Great Britain has played in a Wimbledon final. For Federer, it will be wimbledon #7, first title after becoming dad, and regaining world #1 (plus beating some sampras records on the way!). There is lot in the line...

Murray started off really well, and Federer had a shaky start - especially, he was making lot of unforced errors on his forehand, which is very rare according to fedex's standards. Then rain came.. and the play resumes after closing the roof.. Federer was virtually unstoppable after they resumed play - played aggressive and killed Murray's second serves and won the third set. Then it's just a matter of time to win the fourth set.

I loved Murray's comments at the presentation ceremony - despite being down, he gave a fantastic speech. "getting closer" was the first two words he spoke and the home crowd just loved his speech.

I'm excited to see my favorite sportsman regain his #1 status. He continues to inspire me not only for his excellence at the sport but also for his integrity and composure when chips are down.

Hello world!

yay! my first blog post... 

I realized over the last week again how much writing makes me think. Today, I set up a goal for myself to write a blog post regularly. I'm going to be blogging about interesting things I find everyday - that list includes everything from book reviews, funny things on the internet, inspiring videos to technical articles.