You know that sinking feeling when you realize you’ve been doing something the hard way for way too long? Yeah, that was me in 2019, frantically typing what felt like a novel to explain a simple ProfitBooks feature to a confused customer. Picture this: I’m sitting in our cramped office in Pune, surrounded by empty…
Picture this: It’s 2:30 AM, and I’m sitting in my kitchen, laptop glowing in the darkness, surrounded by empty coffee mugs and crumpled sticky notes. My coaching business was growing faster than I’d ever imagined, but I was drowning. We’ve all been there, right? That moment when success starts feeling like failure because you can’t…
Last week, I was chatting with Sarah, a fellow entrepreneur who runs a growing consulting firm in Dubai. She looked exhausted and frustrated. “Harshal,” she said, “I’m drowning in manual data collection. My team spends hours organizing client feedback, and half the forms we send out never get completed.” Sound familiar? I’ve been there. When…
Picture this: It’s 3 AM, and I’m scrolling through our 247th resume for a single marketing position. My coffee’s gone cold, my eyes are burning, and I’m pretty sure I just accidentally rejected someone named “Microsoft Excel” thinking it was spam. Sound familiar? That was me three years ago, sitting in my cramped home office,…
I’ll never forget the frustration in Amelie’s voice when she called me last month. She’d just started a small environmental nonprofit in Melbourne and was drowning in spreadsheets, donor receipts, and grant reporting requirements. “Harshal, I’m spending more time wrestling with Excel than actually protecting wildlife,” she said. “There has to be a better way.” …