Over the past three years, it has been quite a journey interacting with startups, some of the key stakeholders and in a lot of ways understanding some of the constraints that we are facing in building up this landscape. There is undoubtedly a lot of enthusiasm, an unparalleled momentum within the community and daring spirits [...]
It is an unfortunate reality that any member of the creative class, be it an entrepreneur, an artist, or a creative director has to deal with. You almost have to continously reinvent yourself, and prove yourself over and over again, if you want to remembered. The world has a nasty way of having a short [...]
Once in a blue moon, this situation repeats itself. The board of a company along with the stake holders and investors are pushing the entrepreneur towards a direction and he/she is really not liking it, and tries the ownership card. “This is my company, and I do have the best in mind for it”. Nobody [...]
In an ideal world, just about anyone can create. But is that really an ideal world? About two years ago, while blogs were being touted as the biggest thing to ever hit the planet, apart from all those mystery meteors in the sci-fi movies, what was interesting was to note the number of readers that [...]
The experts in Marketing would usually say that, marketing, pricing, the sales process, and the customer satisfaction that follows that can all be related with a simple equation. Satisfaction = Reality – Expectations. (Thanks!) And they would be right. I remember a call from my dad’s friend about a year ago, to come over to [...]
I am reading the transcript of the conversations held by the Union Square Ventures, and reading a quote by Sir Ken Robinson (who is now fairly well known in the education circles for his TED Talk). In the talk, he quotes a note from the book “The Empty Space” by Peter Brooke. In a way [...]
Once life starts picking up the biggest problem for me seems to be managing time, and most of all trying to avoid the moments when I end up cross booking the time slot for two people – yep, that isnt an easy situation to get out of. When I am at home, and during weekends, [...]
There are quite a bit of people that I come across, good and very good people who sometimes have this fear of not being in the ladder. They are great with startups, but are afraid of being left behind in the startup world and constantly keep looking over the shoulder to move up to becoming [...]
Even as the current economic situation hasnt seem to have harmed the Early Stage Investment scene by much, there is some major misunderstanding by First Time Entrepreneurs, starting off in India, who are looking to raise funds. This series hopes to shine some light on some of them LESSON: MAKE THAT SACRIFICE. GROW WITH THE [...]
This world is supposed to be full of systems, and systems that carry inefficiencies. Entrepreneurs are in my dictionary, those that can look at those systems – ticking and clicking, and notice where and how the systems can be improved. Some are driven by their hearts and start NGOs, and others get all logical and [...]