Greed consumes VCs at all times, which is understandable given the nature of their business. And, of course, they are numerically obsessed. When everyone starts to think they’re all “great,” they lose sight of what it takes to build real businesses, which require much more than just numbers to function. When you look back, you’ll…
Have you ever felt all the doors closed around you and claustrophobic in a way that seems to stifle the very breath of your body? Then, everything you try, every step you take, turns out to be wrong. You become surrounded by a pall of negativity. You feel cheated, defeated. You remember a time when…
1999 was a year which I remember only too well, and for two reasons. The first being that it was the year when I started ClickAgents, the business that was one of the turning points of my entrepreneurial journey. It was also the year when the Columbine High School Massacre shook the very fabric of…
I founded the Chahal Foundation when I was twenty-nine, because I wanted to make a difference, but I was naive enough to think it was easy since I didn’t know the first thing how. All I knew was that I had to act and do something. Somewhere along the way, we figured it out. This…
If there is one thing that we have learned from history…well, it’s absolutely nothing. Bubbles last so long as the smartest guys in the room can keep passing the baton to the next greater fool. Hence, the greater fool theory. We witnessed it in the late 1990s. The Internet was a wild west. Dotcoms raised…
Have you ever felt that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, that this is the moment when it’s all going to come down crashing around you? It might have been during that presentation at school. Or, before that all-important meeting with a potential investor…perhaps maybe even before you propose to the person of…