03 | August | 2012 | wealthymatters

Learning From Alok’s Conversations

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Alok Kejriwal is a serial entrepreneur who founded Contests2win (c2w) in 1998. c2w was the world’s first customized brands promotions website and has retained its leadership position since then.Alok and c2w have gone on to create 3 new businesses – Mobile2win in China and India, Media2win and Games2win and have raised venture capital from top tier VC firms and financial institutions.

I am no fan of VC funded businesses in general.However I still find it useful to read about Alok’s business experiences.Do read the 9 stories below.I’m sure you too will find them useful.I have highlighted what I find interesting in red. Read more of this post

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Three Good Guides

August 3, 2012 5 Comments

wealthymatters.com This post is just my personal notings from this post from Alex’s blog.

There are gurus, self-help books and religions that for a price of our freedom and resources will tell us what we want to hear. The guidance may be wrong, restrictive and potentially a mind trap of following another’s path rather than our own.

There are three alternative guides:

1. Inner Voice

Always honest, has our best interests at heart, and loyal to us. The Inner voice speaks to us in three ways:

Dreams

Presents the problem and then the solutions. All we have to do is remember the dreams; identify the problem; translate the dream code.

Intuition

Flashes of inspiration; those eureka moments; the mind makes the connections and then presents them. Read more of this post

Filed under Tool Kit Tagged with buddha, Dreams, intuition, Lao Tzu, Philosophy by Stephen Law, postaday

Never, Never, Never Give Up – The Story Of Harland Sanders

August 3, 2012 6 Comments

wealthymatters.com Harland Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders had a hard life and failed many times. His father died when he was five years old. His mother had to find any work she could, so she worked in a tomato-canning factory. Harland dropped out of school when he was 12.

Harland had many jobs, including: steamboat pilot, railroad fireman, insurance salesman, and farmer. His marriage failed; his wife left him when he lost a job. But he did not give up on life. He started a service station in which he cooked chicken dishes, country ham and steaks for the customers at the gas station and people liked the food so well that he started a restaurant. The restaurant did well for a long time. Read more of this post