Month: January 2015

  • Hello Tomorrow

    If, in the year 1411, you had been able to circumnavigate the globe, you would probably have been most impressed by the quality of life in Oriental civilizations. The Forbidden City was under construction in Ming Beijing, while work had begun on reopening and improving the Grand Canal; in the Near East, the Ottomans were…

  • Why drop-outs succeed in business

    Our entire existence in this world hinges on survival. As we survive, we learn. We pass on what we have learned, in the form of education. Our education system is structured in a manner where we need to pass tests to prove our proficiency. Unfortunately, it is fairly simple to game the system. In a…

  • What makes a business, a ‘Startup’?

    All too often I come across young entrepreneurs, who are just starting a business through which they intend to hawk their skills. Starting a business does not necessarily make it a startup. It makes you an entrepreneur certainly, but not a startup. Anybody, who engages in any kind of business is an entrepreneur but only a…