Updates: (Still UNRESOLVED) Since the tweet went out yesterday, we got a few calls from Airtel. They are looking into the issue. They promised a resolution in 24 hours. Wednesday 23/Nov 1:38pm. Thanks to the guys at MyAkosha who have been helping to atleast get the Collection agency calls to stop. A call an hour [...]
“Most Entrepreneurs are fake – or simply confused”, was the opening line to a talk that I gave at a recent event in Delhi to a room full of entrepreneurs. That could have been a recipe for disaster, saying such stuff to supposed entrepreneurs, and when the exit to the room was way past all [...]
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If you are an entrepreneur, you have probably glanced through datasets, and reports to build a case for the problem you are trying to solve. There is a bit of a danger in it, if you do not get the context behind those numbers though. 1. Numbers have a tendency to Skew / Average reality. [...]
If You are an Investor one thing you want to learn about really well is the principles of Accounting. If you are an entrepreneur, one thing you want to learn about as much as possible are the rules that you have to play with – the statutory compliance bit. The reason – it takes innovation [...]
Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers” talks about a rather interesting theory to becoming an expert. 10,000 hours. The theory is that if you spend 10,000 hours in developing a skill, by the end of it, you’d be an expert in it. There is common perception that startups are entities who are low on resources, [...]
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 [...]
I am an entrepreneur. And the first thing you develop as part of being an entrepreneur is to start picking up patterns of directions people are moving in, and either do a mental math or just walk on the opposite direction of the flow and see whats it that people are totally missing. Usually there [...]
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 [...]