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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies By Reid Hoffman: Reading Notes
Why I picked this book? My 6th book of the year was Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies by Reid Hoffman. I have been listening to Reid’s Masters of Scale podcast for quite some time now and found the mentions of the concept of “blitzscaling” rather interesting.I still think that it’s simply…
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Mastery By Robert Greene : Reading Experience
“The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed…
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : Reading Experience
The Japanese motorcycle maintenance guide says “ Assembly of Japanese bicycle requires great piece of mind”. There is a thing about everything you build, including bikes. If you build it with non-serene mind, then you build your problems into it. The book takes you on a cross country bike journey that will teach you mind…
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How to Win Friends and Influence People : Reading Experience and Summary
How to win friends and influence people is an all time classic book. I got to know about this book from the Goodreads recommendations and instantly decided to read this one. It starts stating that leadership is 15% technical skills and 85% skill to manage human relations. This sentence alone suffices the need of this book. What you…
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Marketing Your Retail Store in the Internet Age by Bob Negen : Reading Experience
This was the book that I knew prior to reading it that it won’t be too interesting and might even feel too slow. I searched it on the internet and picked it to read to get a perspective of a retail seller. As me and my team are trying to start a company that will…
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The Lean Startup : Reading Experience
My 3rd book of the year was The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. I first got to know about the existence of this book during a keynote video of Gary Vaynerchuk where it was up for display. Finally got the time to read it. The book focuses on how the lean manufacturing using in…
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Business in Boxers : 1 Month Into Running a StartUp
Why the Series? (Inspired by book : Business In Blue Jeans) Hi! This is Priyank. This series is about me pen downing my start-up ride. Don’t know if it’s fast or slow, all I really know is I’m gonna enjoy the ride. Why the name? Boxers is what you’ll find me almost every time in and…
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Contagious : Why Things Catch On : Reading Experience
We all have heard of the hilarious Panda Cheese commercial in which a panda screws everyone who says no to panda products. People loved the ad so much that the brand enjoyed world wide recognition. On the other hand commercials by GoldenPalace.com was a complete miss, it just failed to persist their brand name in customer’s mind by…
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Outliers: The Story of Success : Reading Review
My 6th book of the year was a handpicked one “Outliers: The Story of Success”. This book was actually recommended to me by my cousin as a “must read”. And actually I was amazed how great this book is. It takes your intellectual thinking to a roller coaster ride. As the book description says…
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Rafa : Reading Experience
Here it is. 4th book of the year Rafa by Rafael Nadal and John Carlin. Being arguably the biggest Rafa fan on this planet this book was in my reading bucket list from a long time. Finally got the opportunity to read this. This is great in both sense, it gives you a more closer look…
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