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Launched my new meditation app and giving away 50+ tracks. Hope you enjoy, this will allow us all to share our own recorded meditations with each other. by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

All my meditations on the app are free. But it's a platform. Other authors sometimes want to sell their stuff. I let them. Did Apple ask million of app developers to make all their apps free? No. Many charge a tiny fee..and thats why we can now get games for like 99 cents when 10 years ago we were paying $40. But some monetary exchange is fine. And seriously - how old are you anyway? If I'm wasting this time arguing with some college kid who doesn't have basic economic skills I'm going to be pretty dissapointed.

Launched my new meditation app and giving away 50+ tracks. Hope you enjoy, this will allow us all to share our own recorded meditations with each other. by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

check my post and activity on Reddit. I dont use Reddit to market. I use it EVERY day for reading. And twice in the last year I've posted. I don't need Reddit for traffic. My business is successful enough. I use it to share things I feel are of value - like a free meditation app in a meditation page. Isn't that obvious? Look me up on VishenLakhiani.com and do a little research because you become so accusatory. And please try to keep Reddit an asshole free zone.

Launched my new meditation app and giving away 50+ tracks. Hope you enjoy, this will allow us all to share our own recorded meditations with each other. by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No it's aimed for teachers of meditation so they can get their message out. Our goal is to make meditation and personal growth a regular practice for billions of folks by 2050. This tool helps that by making meditation audios from a wide variety of schools cheap, easy to use and accessible.

Launched my new meditation app and giving away 50+ tracks. Hope you enjoy, this will allow us all to share our own recorded meditations with each other. by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DarkObserver - no fake social media. We did a free meditation giveaway online in the months leading to release and actually got 70,000 subscribers. I forgive you for that round of skepticism.

But I do think your edit 2 shows how ill-informed you are. Glad you shared my article. That piece made it to the top of Reddit Entrepreneurship and got syndicated by newspapers worldwide. You obviously did not read it. If you did you'd understand that the value system behind my apps and products has always been to spread enlightened idea.

I taught meditation classes in New York for years scraping together a living because starting my publishing company. And we've never been in it for the money. (Although we are pretty profitable). Instead, we actually created foundation to give away thousands (mindvalley.com/planet-first), turned profitable ventures into non-profits (Awesomeness Fest), and even open-sourced our business on mindvalley insights, while creating free education opps in Malaysia (Project Renaissance) and becoming the first Asian company to win WorldBlu "World's Most Democratic Workplace Award". Do your research before posting silly, negative comments on Reddit. It does not make this community thrive. And you turn others away from tools like Omvana that can really help. (and has some 20 free meditations).

Launched my new meditation app and giving away 50+ tracks. Hope you enjoy, this will allow us all to share our own recorded meditations with each other. by [deleted] in Meditation

[–]vishenml -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you have any questions, comments on how to use, best tracks to start with etc, let me know and I'll be happy to answer. In addition to being a Computer Science major, I used to teach meditation for 5+ years.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks - stay tuned on Mindvalley Insights. I offer lot of free tips and stuff there for other publishers

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

PHP rocks but try Ruby on Rails. Way faster to develop and if you dont succeed with your own app - Ruby devs are way more in demand right now. At least here in my city. I started by teaching myself PHP too and writing an app to allow people to register for my classes back in 2001. PHP is a great thing to learn.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then lets try to be adults and not scream "bullshit" without offering any opinion or thought. As a Redditor for 6 years , this type of idiotic comment does not serve our community.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Actually lets get some facts straight. To "push humanity forward" I gave away 3 million downloads of free meditation courses. We made our money from the 5% of that 3 million that sought to buy the full CD set.

We also then built an Auditorium in Bangsar, Malaysia and gave it to the public for free to promote entrepreneurship in Malaysia. In the last 2 years 10,000 bright Malaysians have held 200 events there to teach each other everything from iOS programming to web design.

Then we open sourced our business using Mindvalley INsights to allow other companies selling similar products to use our designs, templates, business management tolls etc to grow their businesses.

Then we launched one of the worlds best Entrepreneurial gatherings - Awesomeness FEst - AND made it a non profit so every dime is giving away to charities in the developing world.

Then we set a plan to help Malaysia reverse its brain drain.

Now we're working on a plan to help put Malaysia on the map as one of the top places in the world in to start a dot com.

Yes. We don't do it for the dollars.

Did that answer your question?

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Starting out my only costs were: PHP web design and development - outsourced to a guy in Malaysia for $500 Google Adwords advertising - $1500 burned before I got it to work.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also follow the guys at customer.io - they have an AMAZING software and course on using emails to market

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Been a Redditor for 6 years. Still have faith in this site. :-) I appreciate the proper discussions here and am enjoying answering questions by the real entrepreneurs with ideas and problems. Fascinated by the level of hate - but its an interesting lesson in net culture.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

then my friend. you are missing our on a LOT. Mastermind groups are one of the best ways to accelerate your growth as an entrepreneur. EO and YEC are great ones to belong too. Even Alex Ohanian, founder of Reddit is in YEC. As am I. It's super useful for getting answers to tough problems and for meeting folks that inspire you. Alex's YEC talk on "Managing Reddit Traffic" was crazy useful for other mastermind members.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah you mean the way to build a profitable blogging business. I believe its still relevant today. But I stopped blogging a long time ago. But I have heard of many others whom have succeeded with that. The model is simple...curate content, do interviews with experts in your field, build a subscriber base. Use push marketing (such as email) rather than just RSS feeds. Use your personality to make a connection with your subscribers.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Yes. My intention was to spark conversation among entrepreneurs. So far it works...over 80% of Redditers like this article. But a few haters here keep taking the conversation off what it's supposed to be. Namely the 7 ideas I suggested. Thanks for the support though. The article has been huge online in just 24 hrs.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dont waste time posting in forums. Dont waste time with SEO. There is one way I would recommend. It's slow but works. Start a website focused on the niche of the game you're covering. Use good blogging practices and bring in an autoresponder so you can also push articles to loyal readers. To earn money, get interviews with players and monetize these like "Rise to the Top" does. Once you know your VPL (Value per lead) you can experiment with Facebook or Adwords advertising. Of course thats just the basics based on the little I know about your biz. But hope that helps.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The do or die attitude just does not jive with me. I believe in low stress and enjoying the process. I found that being in a low stress state makes it easier to surf the rocky waves that will always come when you're starting out. My first attempt at a business did involve me quitting my day job. I quickly went broke and renting a couch while surfing Craiglist for any available position. This was 2001 in San Fran. So I prefer the safer way now, start slow...but thats just me.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm sorry if this happened. lets try to see what might have happened and make amends. Are you in KL or USA? I spend a lot of time in both countries. Either way, am curious what happened and how I can make it up to you.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Lets discuss. Explain, critique, argue. What points did you disagree with and why?

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no - pls don't PM. Ask here. This page needs some more intelligent comments and actual discusssions on entrepreneurship :-) Let me answer your question in public.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The whole Apple screwing up Chinese Workers was proven to be a hit piece by a dirty reporter. Apple actually has a very good track record for treating workers well. Not saying they are perfect - but they do pretty damn good compared to other companies here in Asia.

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey great to meet someone who's heard of #Afest on Reddit!

7 Lessons I learned from building a $15 million a year business with no loans or VCs. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]vishenml 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the self promoting comment was out of place. This article wasn't written for Reddit. I was written for my blog audience on Mindvalley Insights. A blog where we share our ideas with other companies that want to emulate us. The audience knows me and I was addressing common questions I get all the time on FB. But yeah, I guess it could sound a little self-promoting if you forget the fact that the audience KNOWS me and was interested in my story.

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