Startup Ideas – Just Do It!

By H.Sekhon On January 13, 2011 · View Comments · In Business, Startups

Remember the Nike logo, “Just do it!“? I’m sure they had some kind of subliminal message to it i.e. don’t sit and rationalize, just get out there and do it. Although that may sound a bit counter-intuitive and reckless and would also depend on a number of other factors such as infrastructure and capital availability, [...]

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Business Technology: The Product Platform

By H.Sekhon On December 17, 2010 · View Comments · In Business, Technology

Everybody keeps talking about platforms, few really understand it’s importance and fewer yet will walk the extra yard to choose one carefully. The phenomenon can be explained with an age old analogy. Remember the pedagogical story about the foolish man building his house upon the sand? He failed because he used a poor platform, sand, [...]

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Business Sense – Leveraging Social Media

By H.Sekhon On December 4, 2010 · View Comments · In Business, Marketing, Social Media

For those of you who wrote off this blog because the scheduled post wasn’t up on Saturday as expected, BOOYAH! Anyhow, today we’ll deviate a little from the startup talk and discuss the use of social media for leveraging your business. This is by no means a tutorial in managing your business communication or a [...]

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Starting a Startup – The Market

By H.Sekhon On November 26, 2010 · View Comments · In Business, Startups

If you read the previous posts (or posts from leading entrepreneurs)  and got excited about working on your startup and rushed into getting the product ready, STOP! Now you’re all WTF? after all that stuff about staying the course and doing a little everyday I ask you to STOP. Yeah [...]

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Starting a startup – Why start a startup?

By H.Sekhon On November 19, 2010 · View Comments · In Business, Startups

If you find the idea of starting a startup daunting, you’re not alone. I wrote about the fear of failure associated with starting a startup not long ago. If you’re the fearless kinds, even better, you’re perhaps thinking about why you should start one when:

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Starting a Startup – Staying Motivated

By H.Sekhon On November 12, 2010 · View Comments · In Business, Startups

If you’ve made it past the idea stage and the fear of failure and have started working on your cherished startup idea, even if it’s just research you’re up to at the moment, then GREAT! You’re one step closer to realizing your true potential and your [...]

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Starting a Startup – The Fear of Failure

By H.Sekhon On November 5, 2010 · View Comments · In Business, Startups

You’ve probably had a few good ideas and then you saw someone else “rip-off” those ideas somewhere on the interwebs and started waiting for the next killer idea to come your way. Sound familiar? Feel something holding you back? Fear perhaps?

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