Nick Vaidya

I’m Nick Vaidya — columnist for Forbes India and The CEO Magazine. I’ve served as CEO/CXO across startups, SMBs, a unicorn, and led strategy and pricing for an $8B product line at a Fortune 10 company. Currently, I help SMB CEOs manage and grow their firms.

Inventionland’s George Davison on How Failure Can Pave the Way to Success

Interviews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9oTGHTH4uw Summary   The video discusses the high failure rate of small businesses, emphasizing that over 90% of them fail within a few years. The speaker highlights that a major reason for failure is entrepreneurs not being prepared for or expecting failure as part of the journey. He stresses the importance of incorporating the concept […]

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Journey Of An Addict To Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Self Governance

Journey Healing Centers are world-class locations that surround you with warmth and serenity to help a person heal from the curse of alcoholism and drug addiction. Started by a former victim of addiction and his wife, who are not venture capitalists, clinical psychologists, or serial entrepreneurs, these rehabilitation centers are hugely more successful compared to

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Choice About Choices

Leadership, Self Governance

The main job of business leaders, whether they be CEOs or entrepreneurs managing firms of varying sizes, is to take good decisions, or more appropriately make the right choices for their business. The kind and combination of choices they make determines the success or failure of their organization. Strategy development involves making choices and so

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Prof. Carol Kauffman of Harvard University on the Value of Executive Coaching

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0DeUHdOxU4&t=22s Summary   The video focuses on the essential qualities one should look for when selecting a coach, particularly in a professional or coaching context. The speaker emphasizes that the most critical attribute of a good coach is their ability to listen deeply and genuinely. This listening is not ordinary—it is described as “Olympic level,”

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Brian Scudamore Finding The Right People

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lIebkpMSEs Summary   The video features Brian Scorer, a serial entrepreneur and founder of 1800 Got Junk, discussing his new venture, One8 Wow One Day Painting. Brian shares insights into how he transformed fragmented, traditional service industries like junk removal and home painting into scalable, branded, highly efficient businesses by combining operational excellence, marketing prowess,

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Brett Hurt – B2B Businesses and Social Media

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5nxiZ_kC8U Summary   The video transcript discusses the current challenges and opportunities facing CEOs in the B2B sector regarding digital marketing strategies, especially amid the overwhelming array of platforms and tools available. It highlights the confusion many executives experience due to the rapid proliferation of digital options such as RSS feeds, widgets, blogs, social media

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Zero To 20 Billion Dollars – One Buck At A Time

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLlYxg6S6w8 Summary   This video features an in-depth conversation with Macon Brock (referred to as Megan Brock in the transcript), the co-founder and former chairman of Dollar Tree, who transformed a small family-owned store into a retail giant with nearly $20 billion in revenue and over 165,000 employees. The dialogue delves into the foundational principles

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Gurcharan Das Will-Power

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b8ANQDSuGs&t=43s Summary   The video transcript explores the essential qualities that define effective leadership, particularly in the context of venture capital investments and executive hiring. Contrary to popular belief, intelligence is not the most critical trait for leaders. Instead, the speaker emphasizes determination, willpower, and a fierce commitment to meaningful goals as the primary indicators

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