Recently, read this book: "Why I stopped wearing my sock" by Alok Kejriwal. Wonderful read, about his business story. Autobiographical with nuggets of business wisdom. Some takeways: 1. Ability to sell - higly important You have to sell your product/service to your customers (for money or for making them just consumer your product) You have to sell yourself and your company to attract talent/recruit You have to sell yourself/company to your investors, creditors You have to sell your product/service to crack deals with your partners, vendors and suppliers Salesmanship is one critical thing in business 2. Recruitment Keep a note of the people you interact with while doing business. Be it your vendors, suppliers, customers etc. Your next star employee might very well come from them. 3. Get started. Get going and start implementing. Too much time gets wasted in ideation and discussion and many brilliant ideas never get started or someone else will. 4. En...