My Experience of Working with People:
Some people leave their footprints in your heart,
Others … YOU want to leave a footprint in their FACE
Shuhaib Shariff
Unstoppable Force meets Immovable Object
You Gotta Be …
You Gotta Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhyZzfG5QOQ
Listen as your day unfolds, challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears, stand up and be counted
Don’t be ashamed to cry
Startup Tip: A Growing Startup Should Only Hire Entrepreneurs
Martin Zwilling has authored an interesting piece for FORBES here:
A Growing Startup Should Only Hire Entrepreneurs
Agree with most of his views, except that I think “Entrepreneurs are born, not made“; Martin disagrees.
OnlineWinnipeg.com – Portal for Winnipeg, Manitoba
Lester Communications Inc. a world class, award-winning publication is partnering with DoubleSpring to launch a portal for the city of Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada)
The city, popularly known as “Heart of the Continent” will have an exclusive portal featuring: news, events, classifieds, real estate, movie listings, photo gallery, community forum, yellow pages and tons of useful features for Winnipeggers.
Coming Soon – OnlineWinnipeg.com
MyGurgaon.com – Coming Soon!
We’re launching MyGurgaon.com soon!
At this time we are looking for strategic partners in Gurgaon. Interested parties can connect with us here:
http://doublespring.com/contact/
Follow MyGurgaon.com on FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/mygurgaon
Dick Costolo : You’ve just got to start peddling and see what happens
This piece from Dick Costolo (Former Googler, Founder of FriendFeed, Currently: CEO, Twitter) pretty much sums up my experience with doing a startup
” On a psychological level, I think a lot of people confuse fear of failure with not having enough confidence in the ultimate success of their idea. They thus conclude that they aren’t confident enough in their idea or their strategy because it seems to have holes and flaws for which they don’t have answers. This is a tremendous mistake. While I won’t pretend to speak for the entrepreneurs I mentioned above, I bet if you asked them if they were confident on day 1 that they had a winner with each of their previous successes, they would look at you sideways and say “of course not”. Speaking for myself, I can say that my co-founders and I try to find a market opportunity that seems like it will need to be addressed and for which we think we have some angle and then we just pull out shovels and start digging and figure other things out as we go.
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Startup Tip : Impossible is Nothing!
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing!
- Muhammad Ali
New Indian Express Coverage
The kind folks at Indian Express put yours truly on the cover page of their INDULGE! edition
Shuhaib Shariff - New Indian Express Coverage
You Can’t Handle the Truth
Classic: Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men
You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives…You don’t want the truth. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.
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AdHome.com – Pre-launch Coverage
1) AdHome.com to tame fragmented out-of-home advertising marketplace
2) DoubleSpring introduces online platform AdHome to facilitate OOH media planning, buying
3) Indian firm promises global OOH planning platform
Looking forward to FEB 2011 
