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Fish Hooks, Cluttered Garages, and Starting a Business | Magic Room Brand blog

QUIZ: What Do Fish Hooks, Cluttered Garages, and Starting a Business All Have in Common?

August 9, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

Hint: Willy Wonka knew it all along. “Oh, you can’t get out backwards. You gotta go forwards to go back. Better press on.”

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Everything is a Two-Step Process | Magic Room Brand blog

Turns Out That Everything is Really Only a Two-Step Process

July 27, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

An experiment in oversimplification (just to see what happens). When I left my office job almost two years ago, it was an adjustment

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3 Business Lessons From Playing Rec League Basketball | Magic Room Brand blog

3 Important Business Lessons I Learned From Playing Rec League Basketball

July 19, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

Note: I may or may not have pulled a hammy just writing this. It’s been a few years, but I used to really

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My HS Freshman Basketball Team Went 1-21 | Magic Room Brand blog

My HS Freshman Basketball Team Won Only One Game, But It Was Everything.

July 6, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

We were short, but at least we were slow. I recently ran into one of my oldest friends at a 4th of July party

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Getting Lost on a Mountain | Magic Room Brand blog

An Illustrated Look at What I Learned From Getting Lost On a Mountain in a Snowstorm

June 28, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

I was 21, living in Boston, and thinking things all the way through wasn’t really my thing. A few of us decided to

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How to Never Make a Bad Decision Ever Again | Magic Room Brand blog

How to Never Make a Bad Decision Ever Again

June 21, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

One of many things I learned from being an awful, awful neighbor. My deepest apologies to anyone who lived in Allston, Massachusetts from

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4 Things Being a Drummer Taught Me About Starting a Business | Magic Room Brand blog

4 Things Being a Drummer Taught Me About Starting a Business

June 15, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

Being a musician isn’t like being an entrepreneur, it is being an entrepreneur. I am not sure exactly when it was when I

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Can A Business Have A Soul? | Magic Room Brand blog

Can a Business Have a Soul?

June 9, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

I admit that I don’t know what a soul is, but I know one when I see one. Ok, so my wife is

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Lessons from a Surgeon | Magic Room Brand blog

3 Things I Learned From Watching My Father Perform Surgery

May 24, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

(Besides the fact that there was no way I was going to become a surgeon.) In 1998, my father was approaching the sunsetting

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What's in a name? | Magic Room Brand blog

Patience, Branding, and My Hard-to-Pronounce Name

May 18, 2017 Vijoy Entrepreneurship, Life Lessons, Life Story, Startup

Don’t ask how it’s spelled, either. It won’t help. Three syllables. That’s it. My first name and my last name is three syllables.

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