Helping a 1000 Entrepreneurs

When I was running my business in Salem, a decade back, I did not have mentors or coaches that I could reach out seeking help or guidance. Being an entrepreneur can get very lonely. Today, the situation has changed significantly. There are a lot of mentors and coaches are available for startup founders and entrepreneurs to connect, learn and achieve the results that they want to. I have had my share of mentors as well – some whom I have worked with directly and learnt a lot, some whom I have learnt by following them and their work. I wanted […]

7 Ways You can Train Yourself to Get Creative Ideas

We all live in a world where our ability to come up with creative ideas and run with them is one of the biggest competitive advantage that we could have in our professional and personal lives. So, if you agree and think that you want to hone this skill to become someone who is good at this, the following 7 practices will be of help: Travel & Experience: Travelling to new places forces your mind to become aware of things around you. You start noticing things that you would otherwise not notice in your home town. Travelling also exposes you […]

New Business Model from Very Unlikely of Places #Publishing

I stumbled upon The New Enquiry by chance and was totally blown away, both by their content and their business mdoel. They are an Ad-Free online magazine & survive by the way of subscriptions (2$ per month) & donations. And they don’t have a firewall. So, for all practical purposes, they create and share content that is free for anyone to consume but still people are willing to pay subscription to receive the same content but in coherent, thematic clusters, which is more intuitive and easy to read. In an interview given to “Columbia Journalism Review“, the founders claim that they […]