How To Identify Your North Star Metrics From A Galaxy of Data

As a Venture Capitalist, one of my favorite questions to start a pitch or a business review is:

What are 1-3 metrics that move the …

10 Things I Wish I Knew About Money When I Was A Teenager

1. Money does not grow on trees, nor is it tied to your grades alone. You have to learn how to make money. 
2. Live well within …

Is Your Startup Capturing Enough of the Value It Is Creating?

It is my belief that many entrepreneurs often focus a lot on creating value and often not enough on capturing value. Products are inherently created …

Silicon Valley is Dead; Long Live Silicon Valley

I just got back from my annual pilgrimage to Silicon Valley, the global Mecca of Innovation. I have lived there from 1995-2007 and also worked …

5 Ways OKRs Can Help Fast Growing Companies

OKRs an acronym for Objectives and Key Results is framework to manage a company's goals, objectives and measurement systems. It was invented by Andy Grove, …

Life Lessons Learnt From My First 10-Day Silent Meditation Retreat (Vipassana)

Caveat - This blog post is NOT intended to teach you how to do Vipassana or elaborate on the technique. You can ONLY do that …