Entrepreneurship – Kerim Baran

The State of Solar

This week, I was a guest on my friend Fabrice Grinda‘s Playing with Unicorns show. We talked about the state of the solar energy industry.

I use Canva.com frequently for my SolarAcademy project. I first heard of Canva from Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse. I think it was back in 2017. I complimented her on the simple and elegant designs of the graphics they were using in Powerhouse’s twitter posts. Emily shared with me that they were creating those graphics withContinue reading “Canva.com”

When to launch?

Linkedin founder Reid Hoffman has a well known quote. It goes “If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” Have a look at Linkedin homepage when they first launched in 2003. Clearly, Reid did not wait to perfect the product. He had the key elements that defined Linkedin baked into the product, but inContinue reading “When to launch?”

Mindset Shifts

I recently came across this graphic which summarizes the mindset shifts that are necessary to compete in today’s business environment. I would add to this list one more shift: Competing > to > Creating In the west, we are conditioned to compete. Just compete on the tracks that are presented to us. Many of usContinue reading “Mindset Shifts”