Nirav Mehta

Entrepreneur Geek

Gearing up for Entrepreneurship – Best Lessons

If you are coming here after my talk at Prerna – Entrepreneurship Seminar at SFIMAR today, welcome to a budding entrepreneur! What follows is a collection of my best articles on entrepreneurship from last 4 years. My Best Blogs Posts for Entrepreneurs and Startups How to pick a co-founder? Are you a ‘scale-first’ or â€˜money-firstâ€™ […]

Showing Flex Preloader near the top of your Application

Flex comes with a reasonably good preloader (DownloadProgressBar) that shows in application center while the swf is loading and initializing. I had an application that is taller than browser’s view port height. This means the preloader will show below the fold – making it invisible to users who don’t scroll down. Even when the preloader […]

Better Everyday – get things done, one success a day – I had many today

My school’s motto was “Better Everyday“. I kept screaming “Better Everyday, Better Everyday” during Friday morning school assemblies for over six years, but did not really understand what it meant. I have been overwhelmed with work (happens every 3 months, it’s been a pattern, but more about it some other day). And while I was […]

Entrepreneur’s Urge with Paypal, Putler brings the solution

If your business accepts payments via Paypal, chances are you login to the Paypal website a few times in the day to check your balance. You would even keep an eye on email alerts of new sales and feel happy when you close the day with good sales. The Entrepreneur’s Urge I can tell you […]

Flex Regular Expression Online Testing / Learning Tool

When it comes to Regular Expressions, I start feeling giddy. Even after using them a lot on many projects, I never remember the qualifiers and syntax. It’s always RTFM for me when I need to use some regular expressions in my code. And that happened again today. I looked around the manual and searched online […]