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The Rude Customer

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Ever met a customer, who looks at you like you are lesser than a human being. Talks to you like you are stupid. Demands things from you like you are meant to do them. It feels like you standing with your lunch tray in hand at the cool kids table and they are mocking you.... Feels like high school all over again... When we were in high school we tried everything in our power to stay away from the cool kids (thats if you weren't one). You knew that if you tried you would get mocked at, ridiculed... so we would save ourselves the embarrassment and mind our own business. But now we have grown up and you have made something of yourself or on your way to it. You think you have grown up, matured and think we have left the queen bees and the jocks behind, because you have bigger things in life to worry about like mortgages and marriage and business etc. But has it really changed?? I think not! Its just a little different now, the only difference being you aren't in school or c...

Your First Big Break!

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Every entrepreneur waits for their first big break. You are excited and the same time so panicked. Its a bitter sweet feeling. You know you can pull it off but you just keep wondering how? Then you take the project and break it down in to all the variables you know. You plan and you hedge and you plan some more. And then you look back and say hmmmmm this sounds about right.... till you speak to someone with way more experience in the field and he starts pointing out all the things you have missed out and you go back to the drawing board. Then comes the day of execution and you run around like a crazy person functioning purely on adrenaline. You see flaws which you know you can't fix. A dozen things go wrong at the same time and you feel you have been stretched too thin. But you dust yourself off and keep going praying that everything falls into place. At that moment you think this couldn't get any worse but you put on a brave face and power through. You get involved and not ...