Picture this: It’s 2 AM, and Sarah, the treasurer of a small arts nonprofit, is sitting at her kitchen table surrounded by receipts, grant documents, and a calculator that’s seen better days. She’s trying to figure out whether the $5,000 grant from the community foundation can cover the new sound equipment they desperately need, or…
Picture this: I’m sitting across from Rajesh, a successful textile manufacturer from Pune, when he casually pulls out his phone and says, “Let me just WhatsApp you our balance sheet.” My heart nearly stopped. Haven’t we all been there? That moment when you realize someone you care about is walking into traffic, but they can’t…
You know that feeling when Sunday evening rolls around and you suddenly realize you have no idea what you worked on last Tuesday? Been there. Early in my ProfitBooks journey, I was drowning in a sea of spreadsheets, sticky notes, and hastily scribbled time logs. During a particularly chaotic month, we nearly missed payroll because…
You know that sinking feeling when you realize you’ve been doing something the hard way for way too long? Yeah, that was me in 2019, frantically typing what felt like a novel to explain a simple ProfitBooks feature to a confused customer. Picture this: I’m sitting in our cramped office in Pune, surrounded by empty…
Picture this: It’s 2:30 AM, and I’m sitting in my kitchen, laptop glowing in the darkness, surrounded by empty coffee mugs and crumpled sticky notes. My coaching business was growing faster than I’d ever imagined, but I was drowning. We’ve all been there, right? That moment when success starts feeling like failure because you can’t…
Last week, I was chatting with Sarah, a fellow entrepreneur who runs a growing consulting firm in Dubai. She looked exhausted and frustrated. “Harshal,” she said, “I’m drowning in manual data collection. My team spends hours organizing client feedback, and half the forms we send out never get completed.” Sound familiar? I’ve been there. When…
Picture this: It’s 3 AM, and I’m scrolling through our 247th resume for a single marketing position. My coffee’s gone cold, my eyes are burning, and I’m pretty sure I just accidentally rejected someone named “Microsoft Excel” thinking it was spam. Sound familiar? That was me three years ago, sitting in my cramped home office,…
I’ll never forget the frustration in Amelie’s voice when she called me last month. She’d just started a small environmental nonprofit in Melbourne and was drowning in spreadsheets, donor receipts, and grant reporting requirements. “Harshal, I’m spending more time wrestling with Excel than actually protecting wildlife,” she said. “There has to be a better way.” …
I’ll never forget the day Sarah walked into my office, looking defeated. She’d been running a small nonprofit focused on education in rural communities for three years, and her spreadsheet-based “accounting system” had finally collapsed under its weight. “Mohnish,” she said, slumping into the chair across from my desk, “I just spent my entire weekend…
Last month, my friend Akash called me at 11 PM, and I could hear the desperation in his voice. “Harshal, I’m drowning here,” he said. Picture this: a talented graphic designer who’d built a thriving freelance business working with clients across three continents, completely unraveling during tax season. “I’ve got invoices in USD, EUR, and…