A lot of people around ask for mockups before they can award the project. This often happens on Freelance bidding websites. Beware of such demands. 2 years back I have experienced the bitter side of these mockups. They will lure you with a potential project that you can work on IF you can give them a beautiful mockup. They don’t want a draft. They want a mockup, which roughly translates into giving them placeholders, gradient bars and a design that they can adapt for their own good. continue reading »
You must have heard this a lot of times – Be innovative, do something new, do something different. It is quite easy to say these phrases but are equally hard to follow. And one of the biggest reasons why it is so hard is because we don’t believe in ourselves. We don’t believe in our ideas and the thought of “what the world will think about it?” always haunts us. What it takes to be Innovative? Try a simple mantra – PSWYST – People See What You Show Them. continue reading »
Some of the symptoms to look out for to check your addiction for Facebook. Enjoy !!! continue reading »
A lot of incoming freelancers have some preconceived notions about freelancing which, if overlooked, can doom your plans. I will be soon throwing some light on what exactly is freelancing but before that here is a list of reasons for not being a freelancer. continue reading »
I got the invite for Orkut around 5 years back. It has just started then but within few days of joining Orkut, I just lost my interest. There was not much to do there except for asking people to be your friends. It was just another network in the likes of Hi5. 2 years later one day one of my colleagues asked me if I knew about Orkut? continue reading »
This is one of the most common question that has been asked by many of my friends who want to jump onto the business wagon. And, honestly I was asking this all the time when I started up. The bad news is there is no simple way of getting it. But, the good news is that you can do it. continue reading »
It is very important that whatever you do you should be passionate about it. Passionate doesn’t mean being crazy about something. It means that you have an inspiration, a motivation and, above all, patience for that thing. It means that even if you don’t get anything out of it you will never give it up. I have came across a lot of people in my professional as well as private continue reading »
When I was starting up my own venture one question often popped in my mind was how will I retain my people. Lots of people questioned me. Why would someone come to work with me instead of a big company? Why someone will want to hang out with my startup business while they can earn good money in MNCs? How am I going to retain people?
Well I thought about it continue reading »
I was recently looking at a freelance job board. A lot of freelancers had posted their response over there. Out of curiosity, I just checked out their profile and was surprised to see how many freelancers have a “Company website”. I thought people would have stopped doing this mistake now since I started. Yes, I too did the same mistake. I thought of venturing out as a company rather than continue reading »