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Usman Sheikh's Entrepreneurial Journey

http://www.usmansheikh.com

My personal blog about my entrepreneurial journey. Documents many tips and strategies first time entrepreneurs and business owners can use. These can help lay a solid foundation to build their ventures on. Updated daily.

• Added on: Jan 28th, 2009
• Country: Singapore
• Language: English

• Author: Usman Sheikh
• Listed in: Small Business Business
• Tags: business entrepreneur startup strategies teams partnership

Recent Posts

• Do I need a Co-Founder?

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 01:00 in business, entrepreneurship, startup, investors, partnership, validation, vc, cofounders

  This question always spurs an interesting debate. Specially when the individual concerned has the skills to build a business himself, but realizes that getting another person to join in will help liquidate his/her stake in the company. I believe b...

• Launching a Product Correctly

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 01:00 in business, entrepreneur, Strategy, Buzz, Product, steps, analytics, hype, feedback, launch, record, responsibility

  A team often slaves away for months, even years at a time, to get a product/service ready to launch into the market. Yet, it continues to surprise me how little effort is put into launching a product/service correctly, as compared to the effort put ...

• My Top 10 VC Blogs

  Posted on Saturday November 28th, 2009 at 01:00 in list, blogs, random, entrepreneurship, vc, paul graham, fred wilson, brad feld, jeff clavier, venturehacks, peter rip, mark suster

  My top 10 VC blogs in no particular order are: 1. Fred Wilson 2. Brad Feld 3. Venturehacks 4. Ed Sim 5. Peter Rip 6. Mark Suster 7. Paul Graham 8. Jeff Clavier 9. Matt McCall 10. Chris Dixon Are you following any other VC blogs that you would recomm...

• Paralysis of Analysis

  Posted on Thursday November 26th, 2009 at 01:00 in entrepreneurship, analysis, decision, probability, business planning, idea generation

  No one wants to fail. In fact, people go to painful lengths to ensure that every step they take is the right one. However, the world has a different plan for all of us! No matter how many spreadsheets and hypotheses we construct, the probability to...

• Paying Vendors in Time? … Don’t

  Posted on Tuesday November 24th, 2009 at 01:00 in finance, vendors, cash flow, bills, clients, expenses, bargaining, short term, notorious, inflows, business. entrepreneurship

  I was having a talk with one of the companies I work with, Hatch Media. We were talking about ways to improve cash flows, since this industry is pretty notorious for clients not paying on time. However, here, there was a consistent trend of the bus...

• Speaking Your Mind

  Posted on Sunday November 22nd, 2009 at 01:00 in business, entrepreneurship, partnership, talk, speak, converse

  Speaking one’s mind is something  a lot of us do our best to avoid in many situations. In some situations it is not the ‘correct’ thing to say, and in others we fear the other person may react adversely so we choose the safer path...

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