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Decades of Mistakes & Learnings, now in the open.

Over the last twenty years, I have kept notes and memories of what worked for me, what didn't, what education taught me, what leaders and people I worked with taught me, and what my entrepreneurial journey has taught me. Some are about things that worked. Many are about decisions I got wrong, people I misunderstood, assumptions that failed and lessons I only understood much later.

One day, I decided to stop keeping those journals and learnings to myself. I started turning them into structured articles about building a business, with a focus on people and purpose, brand, customers, execution, growth and the mistakes in between.

I have believed since childhood that knowledge grows when it is shared. If something I learnt helps even one person make a better decision, avoid a mistake I made or think differently about the business or the team they are building, putting these notes here would be worth it.

Portrait of Hanish Raheja

Building a Business

I am organising these journals into six connected journeys. People & Purpose is the first one I have completed. The others will open as I work through older notes and memories to turn them into structured articles.

Journey 03

Customers & Value

Who we create value for, what customers actually value and why they choose one business over another.

Coming soon

Journey 04

Processes & Execution

How good intentions become repeatable outcomes without depending on individual heroics.

Coming soon

Journey 05

Growth & Scale

What changes when a business becomes larger than the founder and the informal ways that helped it begin.

Coming soon

Journey 06

Everything I Learnt From My Mistakes

Equity, hiring, trust, products, customers and decisions I understood better only after getting them wrong.

1 Published Article

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Short Videos

Branding & Marketing

Candid Conversations

Long Videos

Podcasts on My Journey