Month: January 2020

  • Competition

    Mentoring startups gives one a ring-side view of the way entrepreneurs think. I have often been in a situation where an aspiring entrepreneur wants to pitch me their idea and hear what I wish to think about it. Travelling across the country and meeting thousands of entrepreneurs also means that I hear more than my…

  • How do you say it?

    Adam is a smart and intelligent boy. He has a great amount of interest in most things and wants to constantly learn. He is also known to be quite stubborn and at times, very envious. What do you think about Adam? Do you think he is likeable? Do you think you might want to spend…

  • Vision and Security

    A lot of great ideas have been dreamed up during vacations. It was a late night in Paris, and the challenge to find a taxi that caused Travis to dream up of Uber. There are countless stories students sitting in their dorm room who came up with the next big thing – Bill Gates and…

  • Trial and Error

    There is a reason that the Pyramids were built much before the Pythagoras Theorem was committed to paper or papyrus.  The modern education system makes you learn the theory first and then think of its application. In most cases, we even ignore the application completely. Those of you who learnt trigonometry in high school math,…

  • Genius

    The Mayans invented the wheel but they never used it. They used to make toys with wheels on them but their own construction projects which were quite immense were undertaken by moving stones on wooden logs. They just could not make the leap of imagination. We call it the Morse Code because of Samuel Morse, who…

  • Learning

    There was a time (however brief) when Mozart did not know how to play the Piano (he started playing it at the ripe age of TWO!). There was a time before Picasso knew how to paint. There was a time before Einstein knew how to calculate. They learnt. I often come across Entrepreneurs who will…

  • Signal to Noise Ratio

    In a world where data is the new gold, it is not abnormal to go chasing data and seek to make every decision based on the data at hand. And to have it updated each second. Data is a useful and wonderful guide provided you have enough of it and over a long enough duration.…