Coffee, Tea, Redbull? This HAS to be a special place. Never heard this before, in any company, as you walk in. Also, it made me feel veeery old. The Redbull offer and the fact that Rakesh greeted me with “oh sir, please come”. And stopped an activity which people usually stop, when they spot people […]
Tell me about your greatest achievements, things you are proud of. This usually makes me uncomfortable as this means you either have accomplished something significant or are close to retirement. Both are untrue, personally for me. But when this question was posed to our founding team by a person we all respect for his insights […]
– Start with a purpose in mind and a definite goal. Sounds simple. But most of us are of the “Shoot first, ask questions later” mentality. Most of my past attempts at running were putting on the shoes and taking off. Which ended with a quick retreat in about 30 seconds, huffing and puffing. And […]
The seven years i spent in the US, one of my great learnings there was “life is super simple in the USA”. Push button automatic simple. If you do A, B WILL happen. Turn the switch on, light will come on. Turn the tap on, water will come out. Call 911, cops will show up. […]
Other than facebook, of course. I have written about how LinkedIn helped usget our first round of funding. It is one tool that i use everyday. We use it for building our team, reaching out to partners/vendors, create visibility for our company, and most importantly, ref check. Building our team: We have hired four senior […]
Everything. In my mind, these guys were setting themselves up for failure for a long time. Here are my top 10 reasons for why flipkart will fail*. In the true spirit of random 10 points to support my argument, i am taking the liberty to generalise a lot of things. And make some up. Anyways, […]
Been involved directly or indirectly with startups all my working life (except Celera which was a big company but a startup spirit). And its amazing what kind of free and useless advice you can get along the way, particularly in the first 3 or 4 years. I am surprised at how startup founders/team keep ignoring […]
“You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, and snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, “What they could do, I can do.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel
A dedicated website http://startupoffice.in has been setup as there was lot of interest from the readers about small office space. Please do visit http://startupoffice.in: Your search for small office stops here. In our quest to land a small affordable office space, we have barked up every possible tree and it just seems impossible to find […]
A dedicated website http://startupoffice.in has been setup as there was lot of interest from the readers about small office space. Please do visit http://startupoffice.in: Your search for small office stops here. In our quest to land a small affordable office space, we have barked up every possible tree and it just seems impossible to find […]