Key to your success as an entrepreneur – A Strong Team

entrepreneurship, guestpost

We have written in our previous articles that a problem is an opportunity for a new business. The bigger the problem, and the more people have the same problem, the bigger the opportunity. We will go into detail on executing on a big problem that you have identified. We will specifically focus on importance of the right execution team and board of advisers.

Many of us have hiked up to the beautiful Himalayan regions in Nepal. Ujwal has written about his experiences of hiking to Annapurna Base Camp. One problem that he identified is the difficulty of getting a hotel room in villages along the Annapurna trail. Prasanna experienced the same problem when he hiked up to Everest Base Camp. There are a limited number of hotels on the trials. To get a hotel room, you have to get there early. If you walk slow (which is highly recommended in high altitude), you may not get a room at all during peak tourist season. You may have to sleep on the sheds or sometimes in the cold outside. If you are a Nepali, the lodge owner may give a non-Nepali a room over you although you maybe able to pay

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How do we make Kathmandu valley the most beautiful city in the world (again)

change, governance, ideas, responsibility

Kathmandu Valley, View from Nyatapola

I recently came back to Kathmandu valley after traveling to a few other towns in Nepal which included Butwal, Bhairawaha, Narayanghat, Tandi, Palpa, Syangja and Pokhara. As we entered Thankot, I had this feeling that I was entering a dusty over-sized shanty town or even a ghetto at a few instants. From my bus window, the sight looked like an incomplete slum-city gone hay-wire. It did not look anything like the Kathmandu Valley which just 5 centuries ago was hailed by travelers as one the most beautiful cities in the world!

Chaos has replaced order here. A well-built temple city has turned into a partly built maze. An open orderly city of green neighborhoods transformed into ash colored concrete jungle. A lean town morphed into an obese city. A wonder to behold slipped into becoming to a wonder to avoid.

Its been a slow realization for me, that this city is simply a manifestation of its citizen’s attitude, behaviors and their way of life. Today’s Kathmandu is an accurate reflection of our attitude to our lives, our focus, our mental state and our beliefs.  And

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we will get a lot done, If we just stop worrying how much credit we deserve

campaigns

In social causes and movements, I have come to realize that we can get so much done, if only we stop caring about how much credit we deserve for our efforts. I realize many of us feel vindicated and encouraged when others know what we are achieving, and when others credit us for our work. This is completely fine in a lot of matters in our daily lives. But if you are in a social cause or into social movements, where it is in your interest for many to own your idea, spending time of recognition, acknowledgement for yourself not only becomes a waste of time, it even might hurt your campaign.

In social movements, focusing your time on claiming your due credit gets in the way of much of the wonderful work you do. Therefore If you want your idea to float through to become a force to be reckoned with, stop claiming credit, stop caring about owning all this or that. Just focus on the task at hand, and let many others (and random people, even the sour ones) own the idea. Don’t worry. Social movements are all about action. The sour ones can’t own it for

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