Someone on Quora asked: Why Do People Reply to Emails from Someone They Don’t Know? How can we grab the attention of busy founders and leaders in industry through an email or message? For example, if someone wanted input on something or was seeking a mentor, what would compel you to respond? This was my … Read more
Someone on Quora asked: I am a 24 year old and I have changed 2 jobs and now planning to quit the 3rd job. Besides this I run a product start up in the remaining time. I wanted to work for 1 year in my 3rd job (it’s been 8 months), but considering the potential … Read more
At a bank? I’d assume that your job would be exactly the same as it once was, just with a pay raise. At a startup? The title feels great, until I came to realize that I was buried in responsibilities, maybe two notches shy of what a CEO does. There are regular VP responsibilities one … Read more
If you’re a billionaire, or if you’re a multi-billion dollar company, chances are that you operate in multiple countries. When you operate in multiple countries, you have to deal with the change of currency, which is in a market of its own called the foreign exchange. When currency loses value in the country where you … Read more
Why would anyone in the world pay $50,000 to have you write a business plan, when they can get an outline on how to make one on their own here for free: Leonard Kim’s answer to How does one create a business plan? Also, there are many professionals out there who write killer business plans … Read more
John Pak, a sales manager at Manhattan Beach Toyota asked me to amortize out a 5 year loan at a certain interest rate without a calculator. I think he was just messing with me, to see if I would even try to figure it out. So I asked for scratch paper and answered it in … Read more
I used to work 105 hours a week. This is what I did back in 2006: Wake up at 8am. Shower. Get dressed. Get into car. Take the 101 freeway 10 miles in 15 minutes to get to North Hollywood. Arrive at 10am. Have Armenian boss yell at me for being late to work. Walk … Read more
The elusive blue check mark — once reserved for celebrities and household names on Facebook — is easier to get than you might think. Here’s why it’s worth it. For no other reason than reaching a vanity milestone, Blake Jamieson and I decided we wanted to get our public pages verified. Both of us figured it might help us … Read more
If a company can afford to give you a cash bonus of $100,000 during the first year, they must be doing absolutely everything right. It would be in your best interest to take the equity, even if there is risk involved. Why would I come up with this resolution? Let’s look at five years into … Read more
Someone on Quora asked: Should I give up trying to build a startup? I’m 37 years old living in the middle of Sweden. I have spent nights and weekends during the last 12 months to build my new service. It’s in the domain that I’ve worked in for the last 20 years. I’m quite good … Read more