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- Why did I took the PW route to create my startup?
- There are two ways to create a startup. One is to take more risk and come out with a product.
- Like one of my friend is building a Online doctor consultancy app, similar to Practo but have some killer features.
- Another known person is creating a app similar to Fiveer, but again some awesome killer features.
- Yet another person combined Calenderly type system with Payments and created an awesome apps.
- Now these kind of startups required a lot of money to start, although you can start with a MVP to check if it works.
- But most founders i know don't stop at MVP, they create a complete product and take the risk.
- These kind of startup requires funding also, at some point, which not all of them gets.
- When i decided to startup in Sep 2021, i didn't have any product idea and wanted to take a calculated risk.
- I didn't wanted to take 1-2 years to make the profit, which is the case in Product startups.
- But i was already doing blogging, trainings(part-time) after my job and decided to go further in it.
- That is how TWD(The Web Dev) was born and i left my job and started doing trainings full time.
- Still i do a lot of Corporate trainings, TWD batches but now i have 2 more teachers to support.
- We do a lot of organic social like YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and also some paid Facebook/Instagram ADs.
- So, we are building our startup the PW way with a lot of hard-work and profitability. We clocked 24 Lakhs in the first year.
- We have training around 10,000 people in the first year with 6K from Youtube and rest from batches.
- It gives me extreme happiness, to touch so many life and helping people get those abundant 95% IT jobs. We don't train for 5% FAANG jobs.
- In 2023, we will train 50K people, with 10K in classes and rest in YouTube.
🙋♂️ Connect with me🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas12 min - Reading or listening to book is very important
- Most of us stop reading books when we leave college and get into watching movies and Netflix.
- And this is when we stop growing and get stuck in life.
- All extremely successful people in life are reader and read at-least 52 books in a year, which is 1 book for each week.
- You don't need to read these many books, but at-least 2 books a month is required for everyone.
- Now, you should not read fiction like novels, as they teaches nothing.
- The book which needed to be read are Self-help books, Biographies and Holy books.
- Each popular self-help book or Biography is a person whole life work, condensed into book.
- Suppose you read 24 such books in a year, which means you lived 24 people lives in that year.
- The three Holy books - Holy Bible, Holy Quran and Holy Geeta also are a must read. All three teaches you the way of life.
- You can read any of them, upon your preference, as the teaching are the same.
- But if you find it hard to read then listen to audio-books on Audible. All major books are available on audible.
- Books will change your mindset, will motivate, will guide and make you a very good human being, before you know it.
🙋♂️ Connect with me
🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas6 min - Motivation before Skills- First Sandeep Maheshwari, Vivek Bindra, Beer Biceps then Coding
- A lot of people know what is required to get into IT. But they are not motivated enough to code.
- They are sometime stuck in their past or some negative issues and not able to concentrate for 6 month to get that IT job.
- Some of them worry too much, like how will i get a job when i am not from IT or i have a gap.
- I have suggested many people the correct playlist, which they have to watch in HTML, CSS, JS, ReactJS to get a job.
- But they are just stuck at HTML for 6 months. Most of such people lack ambition, energy in their life.
- After becoming a full time teacher, i meet people like them a lot.
- I want to help them all to become a developer, but they need a lot more before even becoming a developer.
- They need the motivation, which Sandeep Maheswari, Vivek Bindra, Beer Biceps can provide.
- Out of them Sandeep Maheswari, specially motivate Students to get to the next level.
- His YouTube videos can help you to set goals, become active and everything else which is required for a student.
- For a bit small and instant motivation, you can also check "Rocky Balboa motivational speech"
- After these and changing your mindset, get into coding as it requires a lot of hard-work and concentration.
🙋♂️ Connect with me
🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas9 min - Stop Begging for Job & Start developing Skills or Build Wealth
- On LinkedIn you will find a lot of people literally begging for job. One HR Manager literally used this term with a picture of him crying.
- Checked his LinkedIn profile and found he did MBA from a good college and was working in big firms till 2020. And he also mentioned that he was earning good.
- But he did the classic mistake which a lot of people do, which is not developing skills outside job. Now, these skills are not necessarily some thing else. They can be your core skills.
- Finance Influencer Akshat Shrivastava is a great example. When he was working for the top Finance firm and earning 50 LPA, he sharpen his finance skills. And start teaching students about it and earning and additional source of Income. He became so good at it and his YouTube channel grew like crazy and he left his job.
- Beside this he did another thing which most people don't do. He also builded Wealth by living a minimilastic life. He is not a miser and stay in 5 stars, go to vacations but don't buy things to impress the society. He recently upgraded from a i20 to Nexon, when he can easily afford a Merc.
- Most people living in Metros and getting a high salary don't upgrade their existing skills. This can even help them in the job, if you stay updated.
- Building wealth for them is buying a 2 cr flat, which is a depreciating asset in Metros. And also the high EMI stops you to do anything in life.
- One of my friend want to go full time in his stealth mode startup, but the EMI of his Metro flat stopping him to leave his high paying job.
- Finance and IT are top fields which constantly requires you to upgrade. But it is true for every other field also.
- But in IT i see people want to move to a non-tech job fast, where they are in hurry to become Managers.
- Most people are happy becoming Mid-level Managers and forget their core skill of coding. These Managers are first to be fired in a down economy as happenied in all FAANG companies.
- So, never give up your skills if you are in the top field of IT or finance. If you are in some other field in which you cannot develop much, then develop some skills outside job.
- And instead of pleasing society build Wealth for yourself and your future generations.
🙋♂️ Connect with me
🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas8 min - Google VP becomes developer after 20 years
- One of the big name in browser is Darin Fisher, as he build-ed a lot of browsers with team.
- He was a software engineer at Netscape and later went to build firefox from it.
- Then he was in the original team which started with Google Chrome and is considered as one of the main person behind Google Chrome and OS.
- He worked in google for 16 years but became VP of Engineering.
- After leaving google he restarted his career again as a developer for a new browser company Neeva.
- With his credentials he could easily became the CTO of that company.
- Infact after working their as software engineer for 2 years he joined another browser company, building Arc browser.
- So, why did he became a developer again. Actually the kick which talented people get from coding cannot be given by any managerial job.
- Even a technical manager, VP Engineering or CTO role doesn't require you to code day in and day out.
- This is the thing which talented people miss and they want to create things and a Software Engineer is the person who codes the most.
- Even a Team Lead or Senior Software engineer only do 70% coding and rest 30% management.
- The same thing happened with the talented Google Founders - Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
- After managing google for 2 decades, they gave the charge to a professional CEO and gone back to do what they love most.
🙋♂️ Connect with me🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas3 min - Importance of social media presence. Most Meta/Twitter/Amazon fired employees have none
- Been a good software engineer is a very nice thing, but you should also have a social presence.
- The most important place for a Software Engineer or anyone working in the IT industry is LinkedIn.
- Recently a lot of Meta/Twitter/Amazon were fired from their jobs. I checked their LinkedIn post and none have done any activity ever, with less then 500 connections.
- A lot of them with find jobs, but the number is so huge(Around 100,000), that most of them have to compete.
- A good LinkedIn profile for these FAANG engineers can take them to places. And a lot of them know this thing, so they have a huge social media following.
- These influencers have this social media following by giving tips on DS and Algo and the process to get into their company.
- Plus you write anything about these top companies(which is allowed) and it will take your profile to new heights.
- Like My day at Google. Most of the companies love it, as it gives them free publicity and more people want to work with them.
- People in FAANG and other product based companies having more then 20K connections, can easily find a new job.
- Same is true for anyone else having more then 20K connections. As it opens a lot of doors, because people starts to know you.
🙋♂️ Connect with me
🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas5 min - Time to learn real development and not DSA
- A lot of firing is currently done in all FAANG companies.
- Also other product companies like twitter also fired.
- And there are lot of hiring freeze also.
- Previous two years, they have hired a lot of people. But at the end many of them are just a social media platform which don't require 80K people.
- In India a lot of Social Influencers and funded companies, were formed to just crack these companies.
- These companies takes heavy DS and Algo rounds, which is not related to real projects.
- But since a lot of people in India applies for them, so they have to keep these tough selection criteria.
- They are just 5% of the total IT jobs, but in India a lot of people want to get in them only.
- This is because their 14 lpa package seems a lot with the stock option, which comes around 40 lpa.
- But you can learn the truth of the stock option in lot of other places.
- Since, India is a status driven nation. These are high on list of parents and students after IIT, IIM, UPSC.
- And again the same thing repeats. For a handful of jobs ton of applicants and most ed-tech exploiting it and making crores.
- Applying for those 95% job is easy part. But you should know the correct technologies after doing your research.
- Sometimes those ADs will not allow you to do the research. Like they will show a lot of Data Science jobs, which are not there.
- The real jobs are in Web-app development and this is what these FAANG companies are. Facebook is a big web-app.
- These web-apps are made mainly with ReactJS. But Angular is still used at a lot of places.
- You need to know only HTML, CSS and JavaScript before moving to React or Angular.
- Learn these tech, create projects, post on linkedin and get a job. As simple as this.
🙋♂️ Connect with me
🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas11 min - Managers getting fired during current recession
- Recently Twitter, Meta and lot other companies fired a lot of people.
- Most of the fired employees started posting on LinkedIn for job.
- On checking the job title, came to know that most were Managers.
- Now managers in Service based or Product based, are not considered as assets.
- In-fact in service companies, they are mostly non-billable resources.
- Indian IT Services companies hardly fires them, because most of these managers salary don't go beyond 25 LPA.
- And they don't want to get bad press by firing them. Some Indian IT Service companies are known as government job for that reason only.
- It is not their fault also, because we needed such companies when we made the transition from Socialist economy to Capitalist in 90's.
- But same cannot be said for American and European Service based companies.
- In a lot of companies their ratio is 1:10 and which is 1 manager for every 10 coder. And this is a huge number.
- In service companies, in the 90s and 2000s coding was considered a thing which only Junior developers do.
- Everybody was in a hurry to become people manager and leave coding. So, they got a huge pool of non-performing managers.
- I saw manager responsible to check if all laptops are been locked with kingston lock on the floor. And send a mail to senior management, for people not locking there laptop.
- People Managers are of-course required but not 1:10 ratio. But in 1:100 ratio. To manage small teams, we should have Team Leads who do 70% coding and 30% management.
- One American/European Service based company facing this problem, tried to implement this in India. They failed badly as they we not able to convince the Managers to learn coding.
- They finally have to fire most of them, but did over a span of 2 years. Because nobody likes bad press.
🙋♂️ Connect with me🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas10 min - My journey from Developer to Production Support to Frontend Architect to Trainer
- I started my career in 2004 as a contractual developer in a Research lab in Bangalore. After working their for six month, shifted to Mumbai in a small product based company. In both places i was working as a C++ developer.
- In the next job for a MNC, i was hired as a C++ developer. But was on bench for 1 month and a Manager told me to get into Production Support. Didn't knew what was Production support and told yes. From next day night shift started.
- Then came to know it is one of the worst job in a IT company. You just have to monitor a product and run some scripts are a predefined time and send mails. Totally non-skilled routine job which anyone can do.
- Was stuck here for more then 5 years and in first 2 years did nothing like most of my colleagues. Used to sleep(in turn) or watch movies in night shift and in day shift used to read wikipedia.
- After 2 years changed job to a big Investment Bank in the same role. Package increased but job was same. Everyone know what a production support person does, so our manager was encouraging to do some development after 8 hour shift.
- Only me and my Team Lead did it. He later on went to create his own startup and sold it for crores. Now he is just experimenting with new ideas. After developing again after 5 years, i was bitten by the coding bug and there was no looking back. Still a production support personal, but i automated a complicated flow using perl and unix. The script used to run Unix commands and prepare a nice mail and send to management people. Got appreciated for the same and was paid a big bonus and promotion because of it.
- But still a Production support person and the developer job never happened. But i kept on learning techs like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, ReactJS. Was not getting much development work at job, but did some App development with HTML, CSS and JS for newly launched Windows 8 phone. Been an early app creator made a cool 2 lakh rupees, but then the Windows 8 became a flop.
- On the personal front got married and had a kid. But then the 2008 recession came and most Investment Banks were firing. But our bank didn't fired at that time, but after the recession was over. And i was one of the person to go, because of my high package and doing non-skilled production support job.
- My kid was 3 month old when i was fired. But i was not worried, as i already knew that coding gives you superpower. I just looked at my kid and told him that your dad will be the best developer and will never have to worry about a job or anything else.
- The next job which i got at the same package was also a support job. But i kept on coding 2 hours daily after my shift of 8 hours. I started learning ReactJS as i saw the future in it in 2015.
- In the next job, they hired me again as a Production support personal, but they they saw ReactJS in my resume i finally got that developer job which i was trying to get for such a long time. At that time most people were Java developers and the demand for ReactJS was very high as every enterprise app was becoming a web-app.
- After that i never have to look back. Still i used to learn 2 hours after my coding job and also started to write technical blog on it. Technical blogs lead to a 5 book deal with a top publisher.
- Also started to teach people web-app development through Youtube and enjoying it. Became an Associate Architect in an amazing company in Bangalore, but slowly started getting more satisfaction in teaching and writing technical blogs/books.
- Finally took the plunge in Sep'21 and became a full time trainer and started taking corporate and individual batches. At the time of deciding to become a Trainer, i had job opportunity in Germany, interview calls from Google, Uber and talks with Microsoft.
16 min - Getting into development with Career Gap
- Most of my paid bootcamp students have career gaps and there are variety of reasons for the same.
- Some were preparing for Govt jobs(like UPSC and MPSC) after engineering and 6 years passed in flash.
- Some from electronics or mechanical background and did job in core sector only to get 15K per month and want to switch to development.
- One housewife with ten year gap will also join the next batch. So, do a college professor with 20 years experience who is getting paid only 20K.
- It would have been impossible for them to get a job in 2010, but today it is very much possible for anyone to become a web-app developer.
- In 2010 most job were in big service companies with strict gap and education criteria.
- But now most jobs are in startup and also freelancing. So, anyone and everyone with skills can become a web-app developer.
🙋♂️ Connect with me
🚨 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRf7mazcufq🚨 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabendu-biswas/🚨 twitter - https://twitter.com/nabendu82🚨 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/nabendu.biswas.77🚨 Site - https://thewebdev.tech🚨 Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/nabendu.codes🚨 Linktree - https://linktr.ee/nabendu.biswas6 min
About The Web-Dev Show - By Nabendu Biswas
From the publisher's feed
I am Nabendu Biswas and i have 16 years experience in IT sector, with past 10 years into Web-app development with Angular, ReactJS.
I this podcast i discuss about technologies in web-app development, career advise, transition to web-app development and many other things. So, stay tuned and check the episodes.