In today’s world, starting a company, finding funding and taking products to market is not tough, but the toughest is to sustain the business. The moment your idea is out in the market, there are a hundred others who will bring similar products with different Business Models. As an Innovator and Entrepreneur, your success depends on how well informed you…
Continue Reading→Being an Entrepreneur – 1 Year Review
Last year, in August (precisely on the 11 August), I announced to the world, that I am transitioning to be an entrepreneur. When I started, had a very big idea to build a Strategy Consulting firm focusing on Ideation and Business Model Validation for start-ups. In the last one year, have done 4 in person sessions, 2 webinars and have…
Continue Reading→Being ruthless
If you have watched The House of Cards, you are not new the word ruthless. Being a true leader needs you to be ruthless, ruthlessness to the core in focusing what you want to achieve. Frank Underwood might be a wrong illustration for depicting this quality in a leader, but surely there are few things we can learn from him…
Continue Reading→the discipline of freedom
We all want freedom. Freedom from rules and regulations, freedom from family, freedom from teachers, freedom from friends, freedom from everything. But what is freedom? Is it only attributed to what and how we want? Freedom is an attribute of mind. The mind needs to have its control over all what is happening around us and that is what the…
Continue Reading→Thinking as a function
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. Henry Ford Times are changing. Even though you have the brightest of the ideas, investors and consumers are looking at the fact that it is not about only solving the problem, but reaching the consumers. As entrepreneurs, we need to embrace the…
Continue Reading→Embracing emotions
Quite often when we speak with our family, friends and colleagues, we hear “Don’t get so emotional” or “Don’t be emotional”. What is being emotional? If you search for emotional on google, this is the first result you will get. adjective adjective: emotional 1. relating to a person’s emotions. “gaining emotional support from relatives” synonyms: spiritual, inner, psychic, psychological, of…
Continue Reading→Empathy – Selling from your heart
We as human’s need empathy at every phase of our life. When we conceptualize our idea, believing in it and embarking on the journey is the first step, but the most important aspect is to understand the end user of our product/service/offering. Empathy is the one single key attribute of sales which makes or breaks the idea. If we do…
Continue Reading→Is Apple losing it’s IQ?
Yesterday’s Apple event was not much awaited (let us be honest about it, at least I was not) and what apple fans are looking for is the 10th anniversary of iPhone next year. However, as with each year, we did look forward to seeing if there are any pathbreaking innovations coming out this year. The two major features which were…
Continue Reading→Thinking like a pro
Thinking is not art, but a skill which needs to be mastered. In his book Outliers, author Malcolm Gladwell says that it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill. Winston Churchill once said, typically people think 2-4 hours a year and I practiced doing it each day and that is what got me here. In today’s world of fast changing…
Continue Reading→Transitioning to be an Entrepreneur
Victor Hugo once said there is one thing stronger than all armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come. I believe in it. Since my college days, I always wanted to do something on my own, I don’t know why. While in college I still remember selling Kirloskar UPS to companies from 3 PM –…
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