Bootstrapping Your Dreams Show

I have a brilliant idea for my business. And I have approached so many investors but I'm just not getting any positive response. 

A lot of entrepreneurs make the mistake of approaching investors and j…

I spent the weekend in the jungle on a meditation retreat, and I met a lot of beautiful people there. One question I get asked very frequently when I tell them that I work with artificial intelligenc…

I know we shouldn't talk about money but I'm curious. 

How often do you check your finances? Daily, weekly, monthly, or never? I'm asking because I've noticed with our most successful clients — have a…

When I asked some of my current and past clients to describe my services and my frameworks — in one word, these are some of the typical words I get — amazing, mind-blowing, unbelievable, and so on. 

I…

A lot of people think the relationship with your customer starts when you make the sale. But that's a misconception. 

The customer relationship starts when they first notice you and become aware of yo…

Well speaking about me in primary school — I was terrible. I was always in the lower 50th percentile. But something happened in seventh grade, I had a serious illness. And I just bought out of taking…

Why do you do what you do? As startup founders & business owners, we really need to figure out what is our ‘why’.  So how do you determine your ‘why’? 

Well, there is a simple exercise with seven leve…

Shownotes

(20:14) Manuj asks what is the value of a degree today… I think eventually it's the experience that counts. That's why I think the technology programs are more hands-on — it doesn't mean tha…

Introduction to Dev Gadhvi 
(0:28) Today, we are going to have a very interesting discussion with Dev Gadhvi. Dev has a very inspirational story — I will request him to introduce himself and share a l…

After working with hundreds of investors, what I’ve found is savvy investors only invest in businesses that they really understand. And they don't go around looking for all kinds of opportunities out…

Well, the key is to share that idea and have a lot of conversations with a lot of people. So whenever I have to test an idea, without even creating a landing page without even creating any kind of pr…

The best-kept secret in the startup world is that your network is your net worth. I have noticed the difference between the clients who are really successful, and the clients who just struggle. And t…

In order to overcome the imposter syndrome, you should always look back at how far you have already come. Like just draw that trajectory on a graph — I’ve never seen any life journey, which goes up a…

Credibility is so important these days, we are living in an attention economy. Even if they are paying attention but you don't seem credible enough — then they are not going to do any business with y…

Introduction to Arun Patnaik

(00:30 )Arun has an amazing story — right now he's a vice president in Oracle. And he's working on some really exciting projects, which we will talk about. But he also has…

What I used to do as a kid was I used to break things apart and put them together, or at least try to put them together as best as I can. And I was really good at creating art and new craft projects …

Well, it's an Industry known fact that 90% of startups fail in the first year, and then the rest who survive — fail in the next five years. This means only about one to 2% of the startups actually be…

Introduction to Dr. Yogesh Malhotra 

(00:45) Dr. Yogesh Malhotra is the Founding Chairman & CEO of the New York, USA, based global venture capital and private equity firm, Global Risk Management Netwo…

I do not use Apple products myself on principle. But I learned a lot from Steve Jobs in terms of how to market the product. Well, the very first thing I learned was how to position products at a prem…

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