Short, honest essays on running a business, surviving early years, raising prices, hiring people, and protecting your peace of mind. Written by Vathani Ariyam, updated weekly.
After thirty-five years working in the accounting sector, the one thing I keep coming back to is this: business is the most honest mirror you will ever look into.
Most of what we obsess over in our twenties and thirties turns out to be background noise. Here are the two things I wish I had taken more seriously, earlier.
A reader asked me this last week and the question deserves a serious answer, not a motivational one. Here's what experience teaches.
Every transaction in a business is a relationship in disguise. The companies that forget that one fact tend to be the ones that quietly disappear.
Shyness is not a personality trait you have to accept forever. Here are the small, daily practices that helped me overcome it as a young accountant.
Expertise is built quietly, over years, in the work nobody applauds you for. The rest is marketing — and marketing alone can't fake the foundation.
After three decades of small-business consultancy, I have learned to read the early-warning signs. They're almost always financial — but they always start as cultural.
Yes — but the version of "no money" that works is very different from the version most people imagine. Here's the honest playbook.
Before you quit, build the thing on the side. Before you build the thing on the side, do these four small things first. They take a week. They change everything.