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This tweet got
@at_altspace
a lot of eyeballs and we've been flooded with messages.
I will now add some context and share the story of how and why it came to be.
found the best coliving, coworking space in 🏔️
- view: mighty Dhauladhar range
- cozy rooms
- coworking space
- home food
- amazing wifi (see 🧵)
why is this place really special?
people here are living the slow mountain life, blocking out city chaos & rediscovering themselves
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With a lot of students
@AltCampus
I often reference Dhoni to explain how 'understanding the game' & trusting your abilities is so important
If you write a book on personal conduct, achievements, calmness, situational awareness and leadership it has to be abt Dhoni
#ThankYouMSD
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7 years ago I dropped out of college. As an ambitious teenager, college(at least the one I went to) felt very limiting. I had a very different expectation of what college should be like. I wanted to learn and build stuff but college education wasn't even moving in that direction.
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High Impact Startup Ideas for India 🇮🇳
I am collating high impact startup ideas for India. They most likely won't be billion dollar businesses but they are worth existing.
🧵 A thread 👇
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Write the copy of landing page before you start working on the product.
Gives amazing clarity and focus. Forces you to prioritise customer benefits over product features.
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Right now -
Offices -> Co-working spaces
Future -
Schools -> Co-learning spaces
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Here's something that we have wanted to enable for some time now.
Indiehacking is a tough and lonely journey.
Engaging and learning from each other on Twitter is great, but it's not enough. Let’s meet IRL?
🌟 Announcing Indiehacking Retreat 2024 🇮🇳
🗓️ June 2-9
📍
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In exactly 50 days, we are going to make the next big move at
@AltCampus
, the most ambitious one so far.
Can't wait! 😍
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Not sure about the scale of what we are doing at
@AltCampus
, at least for now.
But boy, is it impactful!
Seeing students get their first tech job is incredibly satisfying.
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First few people . . .
- who like/retweet/spread the word about your work
- who you bounce your ideas with
- who believe in you
- who give you constructive feedback
are the most important people. Keep them close.
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The eldest learner in our
@AltCampus
community is a 53yo finance professional.
Arun has been learning part time with us. He has shared about his decision and experience of learning programming here - 🙌
#YouCanDoIt
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Some things just stick with you. This from Dravid is one of them.
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I have missed learning and building in public.
As we now look for reach
@AltCampus
, I am going to learn and implement everything about distribution, marketing, brand etc in public.
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Guard your sleep, attention and ability to focus. All important for doing quality work.
Technology is competing against them.
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Alright, I am doing a show. It's called - The Internet Dream
The idea is to educate and inspire young people to be creators. 🇮🇳 focused
I will be talking to ppl who run online businesses or are creators on the internet in pursuit of freedom(Financial, Location, Time and People)
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The best way to learn something is to do it as if you are going to teach it.
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Reviewing
@AltCampus
applications are 🤯. Okay, I have to watch 'Accepted'!
Also if you know someone who would want to attend 'the Mountain college', pls ask them to apply -
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Superpowers -
- Ability to change your mind
- Ability to tell good stories
- Regular good night's sleep
- Ability to do simple things, consistently
what else?
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You’d think the best part of running
@AltCampus
would be the sense of personal success when a student gets a job, while as good as that feeling is, when their parents call and tell us what it means . . .
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@am_pra_veen
,19, a college dropout, went from working in a factory to getting a well-paying software developer job.
Thanks to
@rtCamp
for believing in this hard-working guy, today was his first day there.
Stories like these make us do
@AltCampus
. His story in his words -
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What an incredible week! 🤩
A bunch of awesome people brought together by their love for indie hacking, sharing the same space, having deep conversations, engaging in fun activities, and hacking things together.
We did so much together. Collating some of our shared experiences
Indiehacker Retreat 2024 closing night 🔥
What a fantastic week full of deep conversations & lasting connections. Thanks everyone for participating and making it special.
Until next time!
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Society rewards creators, people who produce value.
- Being a creator is relatively hard. Needs skillset, creativity and discipline.
- Being a curator is way easier in the modern times.
Start with being a curator.
Creator > Curator > Consumer
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A weak argument given for a strong point makes the point *seem* weaker.
If you have a strong point, make the strongest argument first.
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The best pieces of content are the kind that nudges you into a state of action.
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THREAD - Understanding marketing, improving reach and building trust
Any act of communication between a business and the outside world is marketing.
- Our landing page
- Our social media post
- Our offers
- Our product
Everything is marketing.
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It's easy to teach a concept, harder to teach how and where to apply them.
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Dropping out is an act of mini rebellion in Indian middle class families, I had some convincing to do. Thankfully, they let me do it and I moved to Bangalore, like any Indian interested in tech and startups would do.
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What a vibe! 🔥
Humbled by the turnout. Awesome people, great energy, and an environment that helps folks ship and have fun! 🚀
Indiehackers unite in the mountains! 🌄 Code, sunsets, and a hackathon.
Led by
@pbteja1998
of SiteGPT,
@chinchang457
of CSSBattle, and
@ayysoni
building Shopify Apps(guess his age).
So many talented minds under one roof! 🚀
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Do it.
Do it well.
Do it well, daily.
Its the QUICKEST way to get good at doing anything.
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Love it when
@AltCampus
students ship something. 😍
🚀 𝗦𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱: Our students
@RaghuramBachu
@karan_altcampus
@Sudhanshu7sb
built a learning tool 'frontend50' for web dev beginners - that helps you find right resources and project on topics step-by-step.
Get it here! 👇
#100DaysOfCode
#AltCampus
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Over the last few months, lots of ppl have reached out asking abt coming and working from the Himalayas.
If you are planning to come, would love to help. We have a tiny tech community here. Please fill up this form-
Welcome to the hills
@adityarao310
🏔😍
New Office+Home 😍 If my 2019 rants, and Covid lockdowns didn't convince you about remote work; maybe this photo will.
💸📊 Or the costs
1️⃣ Bangalore - Apartment next to dirty roads + Greasy food + Sweaty bars + Commute hell --> 60k INR per month
2️⃣ Himalayas --> 15k INR all
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I am glad to inform you all that I am joining
@AltCampus
as JavaScript Engineer next week. 🎉
I will be working full-time on new online platform and other things. 🚀
I didn't knew I would get my first job at such an awesome place and will be working among such talented people.
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When all this is over, stories of human resilience and compassion will be shared for years to come.
Stay safe, stay empathetic.
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The ability to just follow instructions is so underrated.
It's the base layer of intelligence.
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❤️ All seats reserved.
🥳 Some fairly established indie hackers are participating.
Going to be a power-packed and fun week.
Here's something that we have wanted to enable for some time now.
Indiehacking is a tough and lonely journey.
Engaging and learning from each other on Twitter is great, but it's not enough. Let’s meet IRL?
🌟 Announcing Indiehacking Retreat 2024 🇮🇳
🗓️ June 2-9
📍
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Love everything about this tweet from one of the students at
@AltCampus
.
The first part is celebratory and community but he doesn't forget to update about his learning, despite it being a busy day.
Defines
@AltCampus
🎉
July 07: Day 30 of
#100DaysOfCode
Today we are celebrating 1 year anniversary of
@AltCampus
. the vibes are damn high.
Congrat to:-
@dprank
@nnnkit
@suraj_122
@ravi11o
for start such a grt community 😍
Today I learnt about How to setup blog using Gatsby.
#AltCampus
#javascript
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@paraschopra
- Erratic sleep timings due to being glued to a screen that glows
- Mass fat epidemic due to food choices
- Long distance relationships and nuclear families due to work constraints and individualism
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In Bangalore, I was very lucky to have stumbled across
@jaagarnaut
and Jaaga Study. I was surrounded with amazing people and a community that eased my transition in the tech industry. To my surprise, everyone there loved the fact that I was a drop out.
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The people, community, and the environment helped me learn hard and soft skills. This phase was tough but it gave me the confidence that you can forge your own path. Got first hand experience of how world is a really malleable place and you can poke around and change things.
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@buildbystl
@SuperteamIN
@at_altspace
It's all about the people, and our goal is to build a vibrant community of individuals who resonate with this lifestyle.
If it sounds like something you would want to be a part of, you should apply to stay at AltSpace.
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Wow! It's happening. 👏
Thank you
@CarlosRemote
! Can't wait to help you learn and kickstart your software development journey. 🚀
We have our first international student! 🎉
@CarlosRemote
, thank you so much for believing in us!
Welcome to the
#AltCampus
community. 😊
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The highest badge of honor in career is the respect of your peers.
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"Mastery school" - by
@sivers
is such a great idea.
@AltCampus
was born out of a similar line of thinking but focused on programming.
Someday, I would love to attempt this. Does something like this exist?
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Now that the students in first batch of
@AltCampus
are full-stack, ALL students across batches are collaborating and building a real-world application.
Idea is to ship, work in teams and get hands-on experience with production apps.
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Meanwhile 3.5 years ago, me and my school friends moved to Dharamshala because internet made pretty much everyone and everything accessible from anywhere. Also, who wouldn't want to wake up to this view!
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@eriktorenberg
The best online course i've ever taken is Full stack development from . The content over here is exceptionally great. If u are saying me u can get better content than this i am ready to have a friendly debate with you.
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At some point, everyone should teach.
Along with impact, it's one of the best ways to improve yourself.
The influence and impact of a good teacher is infinite
One of the greatest things you can do is teach
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India’s engineering colleges churn out over 1 million graduates each year. Fewer than 1% of them can code. We need to rethink tech careers
-
@ponnappa
writes
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Share it with anyone who wants to learn a valuable skill or anyone who feels limited by traditional means of education.
Please feel free to DM me if there is anything I can help you with. 🙏🏻
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Write because you have something to say.
Edit ruthlessly because you care about what you say.
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The most interesting individuals/companies are seekers.
- Seeking answers to big, interesting, hard questions that they care about
- this quest is a journey which has a direction but no end goals
E.g.- ‘How does it feel to build the most customer-centric company in the world?’
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I love this specific part of the Finnish education system.
In India, parents put their kids in pre-nursery or whatever at 3!
By 7, they are enrolled in gazillion tuitions!
Please, let them just play.
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Same advices have different degree of impact depending on who is giving the advice.
We value some voices more than others even if they are saying the same words.
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True. A teacher that doesn't pushes you to be an independent learner but being reliant on them is handicapping you for the future.
The common point between great teachers, great doctors, great mentors?
You no longer need them.
They teach you,
how to learn,
how to take care of yourself,
how to grow.
They want you to be independent.
You are not their cash cow.
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@paraschopra
1. Help others achieve financial independence
2. Promote and educate people on what you want to see more of in the world e.g. science
3. Live happy, stress free life with people you love while doing the above two
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One of the things we are working with students of
@AltCampus
is their attitude and work ethics.
Getting rid of
#chaltaHai
attitude, taking ownership, team work and being an A player! Its supposed to be more than a code school.
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However, I couldn't stop thinking about my college experience and how there would be thousands like me who had to go through that overpriced, subpar education. I was lucky that I could dropout and experiment but I also acknowledge that not everyone's situation allows that.
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One can get pretty far by just doing one thing properly, everyday.
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Anybody will be able to start a "school" in the near future.
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It's a good time to remind ourselves that things are never as good or as bad as they seem.
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Growth depends on what you do after you are stuck/rut.
Stretch and get through = 🚀
Give up = 🔻
Growth happens through the frustrations and challenges of the stretch zone.
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People who optimize for optionality are often just 'fearful'.
The point of no return is where most growth happens. At least once, everyone should find something they truly believe in and go all in.
Burn the boats! 🔥
Life is what happens when we are busy making other plans. Other plans, so that you can collect more optionality.
Optionality, to help you tide over the bad times in pursuit of dreams.
Dreams, oh wait, you didn't pursue that.
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The concept of college is not what most people have problem with.
People who hate colleges do so because in India's case most of them(other than top-tier) are grossly ineffective. In the US, they are just too expensive.
Can't believe we're hating on college now!
College has its problems (lack of equal access, highly variable quality), but it remains the surest means of social mobility, and a personally transformative experience for students.
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At a given point of time, you can either think or feel.
Mindfulness is being in the state of feeling.
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It starts with a dream, it always does. A naive dream of living in the hills and working together with school friends.
One thread might not do justice to the entire journey so I will skim through. It has been full of stupid mistakes, and learning. Anyway, here we go . . .
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ISAs might be a rage in the US because there the higher education is pretty expensive.
Providing ISA based programs there helps ease the financial pressure on the students.
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I have written about that part here-
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Along the way, I made some amazing friends who became core of my professional network and continue to support me in my startup journey. I developed solid technical skills, got a job. I doubt if college would have taught me all that in such a short span of time.
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I am loving doing these
@AltCampus
students’ experience videos.
Seeing their entire arc and playing a small part in that is just so satisfying ☺️
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The internet is the land of opportunities. 🚀
We can build our digital estate, our reputation, our economic engine, our tribe - and it doesn't matter where we come from, what our race or background is.
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Couple of years ago we put together a rigorous curriculum, course structure, assignments and projects at each level, with a strong focus on feedback and mentorship and started
@AltCampus
here in the offline format. We built a program where my younger self would have loved to go.
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Going to college is okay.
Not going to college is okay.
Dropping out of college is okay.
What's not okay is -
- Not finding an environment that helps you grow
- Not finding your tribe
- Staying too comfortable
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Finally, the small team
@AltCampus
has worked very hard to put together our years of experience of learning and teaching software development in online format, accessible to anyone from anywhere in the world. Our commitment to quality, feedback and mentorship remains the same.
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Having seen the other side, I wanted more people to experience this first hand. Since then I have focused on this question alone - How can I help more people realise their potential. (It sounds grand, but I just mean it in a small, enabler kind of way).
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Having attended Sainik school, our love for being physically active was ingrained. And one of the mountaineering camps got me fascinated with the idea of living in the mighty and beautiful Himalayas.
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Along the way, we have helped many people learn software development and get a job. I am sure every student and alumni of AltCampus would attest to it being a life changing experience. We have made impact and while it's a satisfying feeling, I believe we have just gotten started.
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Will be fun to see if Dharamshala 🏔 can be the builder’s paradise. 🔥🚀
Proposed using
@AltCampus
offline campus in Dharamshala to bring the builders
@BuildBySTL
under one roof to enable more collaboration and building 💡
The responses say that we will end up doing this sometime soon in the future 🚀🙌
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I wanted to put this entire thing around an employable skill because that really is the cornerstone. Programming just happens to be a great medium. I helped a few ppl learn it by providing them with learning path, feedback, code review etc while in the job and it was a lot of fun
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Skills > Credentials
I don't have a CS degree...or any degree. Some of our best engineers at GitHub never even graduated high school. But also, some of them had a BS, masters, or PhD in CS. Amazing programmers come from all backgrounds. Using formal education as a hiring filter is nonsense.
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Came across this post almost a year ago by
@AlbertBridgeCap
, have read it many times since. Such a powerful story.
No matter what you are doing, stay in the game.
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As someone who has run a ISA based program, I agree 100%.
For ISAs to be successful, institutes have to do massive filtering upfront for motivation and drive.
ISAs are not the answer to scalable, quality higher ed.
A challenge w/ pure ISAs model is that there isn't skin in the game from the student.
Ppl w/ skin in the game try harder to get more out of the experience, & have a better relationship w/ the institution since they're more invested in gaining from it.
Maybe hybrids are optimal.
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Education should equip people
- with a voice, a craft that they can use to create their identity.
- with an attitude and character to apply themselves in different life circumstances.
- with awareness to build and nurture relationships.
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Everyone should be a teacher early on in their life, you get first hand experience of what an ideal student is like.
Imbibe and apply those qualities to be a good student in whatever you learn next.
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Your life is the medium on which you practice the art of living.
- A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
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What makes learning to program special is the instant, and objective feedback loop. Learning to code properly is fairly challenging and teaches perseverance. You can reach employability within a few months if you are consistent. Also, we need more and more people who can code.
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Awesome. Would be great to see more and more seasoned folks doing this.
I'm starting to invest a few hours in the weekend to mentor/guide entrepreneurs who r starting up in '2nd/3rd' tier cities in India. For free.
e.g., Bhubneswar,Nashik,Kochi,etc
I can help:
Product market fitment
Tech architecture
Acquire the first 50 -100 customers
pls share🙏
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I am collating a list of such ideas on my blog here. Will keep updating it.
If you have an idea that I should add, feel free to ping me.
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I am a total beginner at it. As I learn and implement, I am going to share the resource, lessons here as well as through my personal website -
Please follow/subscribe to learn all things distribution with me.
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In the first episode of 'The Internet Dream' show, I talked to my friend
@hipreetam93
about
- his journey
- building MicroSaaS
- behind the scenes - emotions to systems
- advice for young folks
Interested in building online businesses? This is 🔥
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Had a great conversation with
@santoshpanda
. Thank you so much for doing this! 🙏🏻
I'm starting to invest a few hours in the weekend to mentor/guide entrepreneurs who r starting up in '2nd/3rd' tier cities in India. For free.
e.g., Bhubneswar,Nashik,Kochi,etc
I can help:
Product market fitment
Tech architecture
Acquire the first 50 -100 customers
pls share🙏
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This and more . . .
I am more than a month late but here's our 2020 update.
@AltCampus
we are in a better place than we have ever been. Looking forward to a great 2021 🚀
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