1. 25 May


    "When your business physically interacts with people in a way that can have a profound impact on their life, than quality beats pace, every time"
    — Richard Branson 

    (Source: linkedin.com)

     

  2. 8 Dec

    Have a direction, you need to know what you want and build backwards to develop a plan to execute on relentlessly to reach your destination.

     
     

  3. 5 Jul


    Add me on Snap   »

    Add me on Snapchat! Username: mayerzahid

     

  4. 25 Mar


    "predictable failures that come from a lack of basic planning. It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin)."
    — Mark Suster http://bit.ly/DecreaseOddsYourStartupFails
     

  5. 3 Mar

    Some days all I want to do is stare at the sky and dream about flying amongst the clouds #dream #hike #tahoe #frozenlake #squad #eagle #cali #cold #snow #frozen #mountains (at Eagle Falls Trailhead (South Lake Tahoe))

    Some days all I want to do is stare at the sky and dream about flying amongst the clouds #dream #hike #tahoe #frozenlake #squad #eagle #cali #cold #snow #frozen #mountains (at Eagle Falls Trailhead (South Lake Tahoe))

     

  6. 24 Oct

    Great views from the space needle @numairator (at Space Needle)

     
     

  7. 18 Oct


    "

    The history of the Internet and mobile is that in many categories the winner takes most of the market:

    Search – Googleecommerce – AmazonSocial – FacebookRidesharing – Uber

    We can go on and on with making a list like that and I have left off many many markets, but I think this short list I made at least gets the point across.

    The reasons are many, but at the core are network effects and the fact that the more users and data a service has, the more value it can create for its customers and users

    - Fred Wilson

    "
    — http://avc.com/2015/10/winner-takes-most/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29
     

  8. 17 Sep


    "It’s fine to fail, but if you fail because you didn’t have the courage to move to Oakland and instead you burned 30 percent of your cash on Kind bars and exposed brick walls in the office, you’re a fucking moron."
    — Chamath Palihapitiya 
     

  9. 9 Feb


    30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs  »

     

  10. 27 Dec

    Fancy #jebriniwedding #gfgc #916 #b&w

    Fancy #jebriniwedding #gfgc #916 #b&w

     

  11. 18 Oct


    "You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well worn path."
    — Steve Jobs. Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 (via bijan)

    (Source: bijan, via bijan)

     

  12. 18 Oct


    "Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
    — Kurt Vonnegut, via The Impossible Cool (via bijan)

    (Source: bijan, via bijan)

     

  13. 4 Sep


    "Don’t think you are going to win in business with a better product, more capital, or a bigger team. You can’t just throw resources at a market and expect to win. The winner in a market most often has the best strategy and exectutes it well."
    — Fred 

    (Source: brycedotvc, via brycedotvc)

     

  14. 2 Sep


    "If you can’t convince yourself that your mission is important, think very hard about what you’re doing. I’d go so far as to say that a company that is not mission-oriented will have a hard time being really successful because of talent retention problems."
    — Sam Altman

    (Source: brycedotvc, via brycedotvc)

     

  15. 19 Jul


    "

    Startups tend to hold a lot of meetings. Too many. Have less. One of the easiest ones to kill is the status meeting. You don’t need to constantly meet with your team to provide a round robin of updates. Just have them write it down. Put it in a Google Doc and have everyone read it once a week.

    When it comes to decision-making meetings, make reversible decisions quickly. Most decisions in startups are reversible and yet we agonize over them for too long. When you come together, get the right data and the right people and drive toward a decision.

    Do this for all decision-making meetings, unless it’s truly an irreversible decision. Take more time with those, have more conversations, involve your advisors and board. Otherwise decide and execute. Your biggest advantage as a startup is the ability to change quickly later since there are so few moving parts.

    "
    — 

    70% Of Your Time At Work Is Wasted - How To Change That via Fast Company

    Some useful tips on bringing sanity back to your life, particularly for startup founders.  There is a lot of ways to waste time, so be choosy with what you focus on and eliminate the time wasters that add up during the day.

    And probably the most useful tip in the article is this:

    NEVER LEAVE A MEETING UNTIL YOU’VE DECIDED WHAT THE OUTCOME IS.

    (via marksbirch)

    (Source: Fast Company, via marksbirch)