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Margin of safety for investment

Margin of safety should be considered as a form of safeness factor. The amount of risk it will helps us to minimize while making an investment is highly useful. Buying stocks rather at the fair value than market value makes sense.

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Viral marketing

Startups can scale big with marketing done by themselves or by viral marketing. Viral marketing is the process where product reaches beyond the target number and become an obsession over the netizens ( considering majority of the new age startups are internet based). Viral marketing is done by people at it is completely free for the companies once they successfully implanted the idea. 

Knowledge gap

Sometime the barrier lies in lack of knowledge. People often tend to develop their life using their existing knowledge which they tried and failed many times. Even while taking the financial decision people focus on planning what's they planned before and slay there. They might be good at the existing tried and failed planning. But learning about the different methods and concepts, they can actually make a better decision. 

Focus on mission

Startups instead of focusing on the investors and profit, they should look at solving problems and making an impact. By doing so they can create a culture where it alters the way people think and act.

Society can be a trap

There are lot of traps out there. Only after falling or getting out of that trap we realize that we were bondaged for a very long time. We were born into the society trap where everything is predefined. Everything is written and all we have to do is to obey them. We are not allowed to wander with our will and certainly not with any other rules. Predefined are the prime ones. When we look at those cultural scribings of activism, we could see that everything is limiting and designed to refrain is from our true potential. The hardest thing is not being unaware of this trap, it is being in the trap even after knowing you are in a trap. This makes us to think differently. Because we found something, probably, no one around found. It would be game changer for everyone. It could transform the society and culture, paving a more promising future for the generations to come. But what happen when we introduce this theory to those blind people is quite depressing. They mock and joke you, laugh a...

Investing with index

Expecting return a way more than the index average can be of greed influence. Index do gives a handsome return that sometimes even surpasses majority of the stock performance. But it is also true that index may stands still for some years. Yet in the very long it is way better than FDs.

Emotional scars

It is important to have emotional scars. Once you're hit so badly emotionally, your mind reacts in such a way that of the experience it had. By exposing ourselves to hard experiences, we could constantly make our mind more rigid, capable of facing hard problems. The sooner we get there, the better the life experience will be.

Eliminating shallow work

Almost everything that added value to growth is provided by few things. About 80% of the growth is happened because of the 20% of the well contributed things. This is a very famous principle. This is one of the reason for advices such as focus on few things stands relevant. Giving time and energy to few things makes it easy to get more output. And the results are truly visible. By constantly trying to expand the focus to many things results in shallow results. It is no good for none.   To make that 80% improvement in our personal or professional matter, we need to spend the time wisely. By selecting the things to focus upon has this direct correlation with output. At times, we do feel that everything is necessary and it cannot be completed without it. But those are meant to finish as secondary. Primary works have primary importance and yields more results. For every energy we puts in, we expect results. The more we 80/20 principle, the more things get done.  We can easily so...