Wahid Tashkandi Tashkandi, Author at Startup Daily

Wahid Tashkandi Tashkandi

Wahid is Investment Manager at Skalata Ventures, joining the VC from one of the fastest growing scale-ups in the UK, Paddle.
He spent four years helping them scale from under 30 employees to 200, while also raising more than US$90 million.

Sir Richard Branson. Photo: Virgin Galactic

Business strategy

Why you should stop taking advice from successful people

Wahid Tashkandi Tashkandi - August 5, 2022 6 MIN READ

When we seek advice on startup success, we tend to turn to the winners. We buy books by business gurus and power through podcasts by major corporate players. But why do we feel their advice is more valuable than the inventors and innovators who didn’t make it? What if we could learn more from their… Read more »

Business strategy

How to decide when it’s time to stop as a startup founder

Wahid Tashkandi Tashkandi - July 27, 2022 4 MIN READ

We’ve all seen it: the devastated face of a founder in the Shark Tank being told their business model isn’t viable after spending hundreds of thousands of their own money on it. It’s always a mixture of pain and horrible, horrible clarity. They knew they should have quit, or pivoted, or reiterated a long time… Read more »