3 days agoMember-onlyWorld’s 247th Richest Person: What He Taught Me About Organizing Killer Events To Grow Startup RevenueMarc Benioff is the world’s 247th richest person. In 1999, he started Salesforce after quitting a lucrative job at Oracle. He revolutionized his startup’s revenue trajectory with a not-so-unique strategy: Organizing events I have spent 30+ days discovering the lucrative world of event-driven growth. Here are my learnings to take…Startup11 min readStartup11 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Nov 7Member-onlyThe 4 Rules of Writing Code Only Mature Developers Know AboutSteal These — Maturity brings unique perspectives. When I started writing code, I was told things like: You need to be a genius to be a developer. You will write code all day. You will work on innovative projects. Writing code is fun. But as time went by, I realized these were all…Programming7 min readProgramming7 min read
Oct 17Member-only41 One-Liner Startup Lessons I Learnt From a Programmer Who Built a $230 B Empire Leaving 9–5 at OracleBefore 1999, Marc Benioff was stuck in a corporate job. He wasn’t enjoying his corporate life even after receiving a huge salary from Oracle. He had no idea what he wanted to do next with his life. In February of 1999, he started his company, Salesforce. In just ten years…Business3 min readBusiness3 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Oct 12Member-onlyGoogle, Facebook and Twitter Early Stage Lessons Turned This Programmer Into a BillionaireQuietly Learn These 3 Early Stage Startup Lessons — Leaving Google was a pivotal moment in Kevin Systrom’s career. After leaving Google, he had no idea what to do next. But he knew one thing for sure: He had to do something big. When he started his next big project. He had no idea how his past life experience…Programming8 min readProgramming8 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Oct 7Member-onlyA Programmer Built a $230,000,000,000 B2B SaaS Company Without Selling Directly to ExecutivesGrowing a B2B SaaS business is 10x harder when you target busy executives. Most executives avoid direct sales pitches. Executives will give you excuses like: Our IT roadmap is set for next year. I’ve had negative experiences with a similar product in past. In that case, how can you grow…Entrepreneurship6 min readEntrepreneurship6 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Oct 3Member-only4 Weird Signs of a Mediocre Self-Taught ProgrammerThese things are barely talked about — 99% of us self-taught programmers are always looking for ways to become better programmers. To become a better programmer we read: Other's code. Programming articles. Documentation. One of the key ways to improve is to look for signs of an average programmer. With these signs, you will be able to…Programming6 min readProgramming6 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Oct 2Member-only3 Life Lessons From the Pre-Startup Journey of a Programmer Who Built a $1 B AppThe story behind the scene — On October 6, 2010, Kevin Systrom launched Instagram to the public. In April 2012, Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1 billion. The company only had 13 employees. Kevin made around $400 million from that deal. When Kevin started Instagram he was like any other programmer who had left a…Startup5 min readStartup5 min read
Sep 30Member-only33 One-Liner Lessons I Learned From Two Engineers Who Built a $28 B Empire and Inspired Steve JobsReprogram Yourself — A month ago I read a book about two engineers. David Packard and Bill Hewlett They were able to build a company now valued at $28 Billion and inspired Steve Jobs after he returned to Apple. Here I have mentioned thirty-three lessons I learned after reading about them. Unimportant things…Business3 min readBusiness3 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Sep 26Member-onlyHow to Get Started With a $1 Million SaaS Without Leaving Your 9–5Killer Tips — It sucks when you’re stuck in a 9–5 job and don’t know what to do next. It sucks even worse when you know you want to start a $1M SaaS and yet you’re stuck in a 9–5 programming job. Before 1999, Marc Benioff was stuck in a job at Oracle. …Programming11 min readProgramming11 min read
Published inLevel Up Coding·Sep 14Member-onlyI Spent 51 Hours Studying 2 Programmers Who Built a $970 M Company— Here’s What I Learnt From Their JourneyI wish I had learned this sooner — In 2007, the Internet was not what it seems today. People have started using the Internet to: Interact via email Play games Watch videos But the Internet was missing one big thing. Live video streaming. People wanted to broadcast their lives over the Internet. Two friends, Emmett Shear and Justin…Entrepreneurship7 min readEntrepreneurship7 min read
