FahadUddin92

Must say its a difficult task to convince banks to partner with you.

I have looked into this area. The best way to do it is to partner with an existing bank. You wouldn't need payment processor license which would likely be very costly.

'The Startup of You' by Reid Hoffman is another great book.

Like I said, I don't randomly add people. I network with founders and recruiters. I never send them a private message until we have something to talk about and I don't do sales.

For the 4th thing. I got replies because I asked very relevant and to the point questions. If its very specific and they can really help, they respond.

Business Adventures, Crossing The Chasm, Hard Things About Hard Things, Only The Paranoid Survives are great books.

One thing I learned along the way is to be very honest to yourself and know that "you don't know what you don't know." When I was at University I always felt like I know it all. But the more you explore you learn so much that you don't know.

I Googled slack channels list for things I am interested it. Like Front End, Startups, Laravel, WooCommerce etc. You would find 100s of channels. See the ones which have many members. They would have a online form to join them. Join the ones that are free. There would be some who would ask for a membership fee. I personally don't think paid ones are worth the money. https://medium.com/startup-frontier/100-slack-communities-fo...

Hey! Thanks. I have emailed you.

Yes. I am working on a blockchain based voting system too.

Thanks!

1. The courses on AI/Machine learning and blockchain (or anything that has do with 4th Industrial revolution) are great. Coursera is great for this.

The greatest impact was the combined effort of being able to do multiple courses (in so many different things) and being able to better understand different programming languages, technologies and marketing (SEO, ads, content marketing, referral marketing, driving sales).

Can't leave engineering. Engineering is the passion. I have a strong belief that all parts of business should be driven by engineers from development to sales and marketing. Yesterday I went to a meetup and I met sales people on the booths who had no idea on the product they were selling worked and how it could help others.

2.) If you don't have friends in school, go out to events, network. Talk to people, add them on LinkedIn. Found someone interesting online? Feel free to email them and get to know each other. Thats how I have built my network. Don't forget the nurture professional relationships. Your network is your networth.

3.) I have a 15000 people following, the articles that are of interest get viral. A few times I tried to post my articles on some FB groups. It did work out well but I don't do it anymore. Best is to just keep writing (you may post on Reddit, FB etc but be aware that you might get banned for self promotion).

3. 'The Lean Startup' and 'The defining decade' are the most impactful books.

4. You can see my Linked: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ifahaduddin/

Did it work out well? How long did you compound?

Just do the coursera courses and get started.

I did following things that helped me grow,

1. My engineering ended in 2013. I was shit broke. I started doing online courses in 2016. Till now I have done 51 online courses in different things and just a month ago I got moved into a DevOps role (from a WordPress developer role). $0 invested in it.

2. The other best thing is growing my LinkedIn network. I grew my network from 200 people to to 15000 people (most of which are founders and recruiters). I invest time in writing articles and sharing new opportunities via LinkedIn.

3. I started reading a lot of books (related to tech and business).

4. I started emailing, tweeting to people (and getting heard by people like Jimmy Wales, Elon Musk, Tim Draper, Craig Newmark, Charlie Cheever) etc. This helped me grow exponentially.

5. Planning ahead. I started visioning life 30 years ahead. What was what I wanted. If your goals are clear, it will be much easier to find the path.

6. Ask, ask, ask. I asked a lot of questions on StackExchange, Reddit -> r/webdev and Hacker News. Whatever I plan to do, I take feedback from these groups. I have also joined Slack channels of professionals from different groups where I talk and take feedback. From ideas to resume review and career guidance.

7. Anyone that could teach me, I made him/her my mentor and listened to them and acted on their advice. Everyone I work with (founders, coworkers etc) see the passion in me and tries to mentor me. The trick is to always be willing to listen to others and keep connecting dots.

Huh? What do you mean?

I dont think he was a very good techie. I don't believe the biography because it was written by choice of Steve Jobs.

Steve is not my role model. I am more of Woz fan.

--> One Minute Manager

--> Hard things about hard things

--> The Phenix Project

--> Measure what matters

I think I can answer this because I asked this to Elon Musk around a year ago. Billionaires have higher anxiety and relentless stress. They just hide it from the world. Many develop mental diseases such as anxiety, disorders etc. Here is a link to my conversation with Elon Musk: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/08/03/elon-musk-a...

Write it down on paper and Google Drive.

Nice idea.

If its a basic app with CRUD features, I use WordPress. Else PHP (LAMP stack) and JavaScript (MEAN stack) are great options.

Yeah. 40 is a good age. I have read that article.

I read books, do online courses and then laugh at myself how stupid I was before and I didn't knew stuff.

I keep a Google Drive for that.

I would use WordPress if its a simple site. For a more complex site, I would choose PHP/MySQL with CodeIgniter or Laravel framework.

In below link you can find self made billionaires (if thats what you mean by the league). https://www.inc.com/business-insider/worlds-youngest-self-ma...

TeamViewer, Slack, WhatsApp and Skype.

I am observing that I am getting much more opportunities once I have changed my role from full stack to front end developer. I think recruiters want experts in one field rather than generalists.