One of the biggest mistakes most founders and companies do is ‘hiring prematurely or over-hiring’. Over hiring leads to employee burn and salary burn. For smaller bootstrapping startups it’s the worst business strategy as they run outta funds quickly. 😆 1️⃣ Do not go on a hiring spree and ramp…

💡 Startup Idea Fallacy — A startup idea is not a solution but the problem waiting to be solved. In fact, it’s such a grave problem that the customers would be willing to pay for as soon as they have a solution. …

A story of a girl, woman, other and a mother — Sometimes being a woman can make you wince and cringe about your very existence. I can easily say every woman would have asked “the” question- “Why was I born a woman?” at least once in her lifetime. Besides enduring the biological fluctuations of various degrees in physical and mental health…

Leaders are many but inclusive leaders win hearts — In my squiggly career, I have seen many managers who strived to lead but failed miserably. Leading a group of people is a people skill that requires a plethora of soft skills no MBA program, textbooks or masterclass courses on earth will teach you. …

Everybody needs help, don’t hesitate to ask — Programming is not easy. Anyone who has tried programming for even a few days will agree with me on this. It takes immense mental power and grit to be a programmer. To show up day after day after feeling like I haven’t achieved anything because it is not an easy…

Bring more Women in Leadership — We all know that seeing is believing. Representation plays a huge part in attracting women into IT. Even better if the leaders are women. As Sheryl Sandberg mentions in her book Lean In, women’s leaders can relate and empathise with women’s problems. You can’t build a company without realising a specific person’s or groups’ needs are left out. Code of Conduct Managers ensure people are heard

A Git Repository is a cloud storage for your software — This is continuation of Git Basics series. What is Git? Know Your Git Terminologies Local Git Repository: Setting up a local repository is pretty simple. By local repository I mean making your project a git repo on your work-station. Open git-bash. Navigate to root of your project folder. …

Keywords used most commonly in Git version control and what they mean — This article is a continuation of Git Basics series. One of the challenges I faced while learning Git was the keywords used. Once you know what each command means your life becomes a lot simpler. It would definitely take a few screws up to get a hang of it. But…

Basics of the most popular version control tool used in software development — Think of Version Control as the system which meticulously keeps a history of every change you make in your code in every file of your project. It logs every detail of what the change was, at what time was it made and by who etc. Think of it like if…