Posts Tagged ‘Learning’
5 Ways to Get Over Your Fear of New Business Technology
With technology advancing so rapidly, it can be difficult to keep up with it. Unless you are naturally a person who loves to stay immersed in the latest gadgets, it’s easy to fall behind and feel intimidated by it all. Yet technology can actually help you with your business, so it’s important to stay current.…
Read MoreTurning Out the Lights is a Type of Exit
In my life as an early stage investor, I’ve been closely involved with so many businesses, there were bound to be numerous stories of failures, hopefully from which to learn lessons for all of us as we go forward. Several times in my investing life, as the final board member making the arrangements to dispose…
Read MoreHow 3 Brilliant Entrepreneurs Failed Before They Succeeded
Sometimes it seems as though certain business people are simply born with the Midas touch that guarantees massive success in whatever they do. Life can seem a little unfair when you see how they have turned their ideas into millions of dollars with seemingly very little effort. Yet, when we look at the stories of…
Read MoreMake Your Training Engaging, Memorable, and Unexpected
“Fire Hose Training,” “Death by PowerPoint,” and “Data Dumping”—experiences we have either had, heard about or are (unwilling to admit) created. Training experiences don’t have to bore participating audiences and can be unexpected engaging and memorable experiences. So what does unexpected look like? It’s Not About You – It’s About Your Audience You often know…
Read MoreDoes Everyone Need Coaching?
Participating in a webinar the other day, for a moment I was stumped by a question, “Does everyone need coaching?” I guess, more than being stumped, I was stunned with the question. But on reflection, it’s an important question, or at least one that many are confused about. To answer this, we have to look…
Read MoreThe Keys to Learning from Your Business Failures
So you screwed up. What next? There’s something you notice a lot in online marketing—the story of how an entrepreneur tried, failed, recovered and then succeeded. It’s a good story and an important story. But it kind of misses a little something sometimes. Let’s be honest. It’s easier to talk about how you learned from…
Read More4 Ways Building a Company Taught Me More Than College Could
I’m not ashamed to say that I didn’t attend college. Culturally, being Indian, it’s quite strange to hear that. I was very close to attending, and had my opportunity at Gravity4 not come along (pre-launch), I would be sitting in a classroom probably learning about how a Roman empire conquered a piece of land that…
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