Author: Vivek Srinivasan

  • Things to remember before heading down the path of Entrepreneurship

    Last week, we hosted the Startups Club meetup at Chennai. We were fortunate to be joined by Mr. J Krishnan for the meeting who shared some of the wisdom that had been shared with him by the likes of Kanwal Rekhi. I just made a note of them and put them together in this blog.…

  • Modi – The Storyteller

    I recently completed a course on Storytelling by Jennifer Aaker from Stanford. At the core of it, the course explains four steps to telling a story which are: 1. Single Focussed Goal 2. Grab Attention 3. Engage 4. Enable Action In the context of the recent victory that Modi registered in the elections in India. As I…

  • Vision and its role in achieving success

    I travel a lot and I drive very often. I always try to reach the destination as fast as possible. I use to think that the speed at which you drive is related to the width of the road. The wider road affords you a lot of room to make errors and therefore allowing you to…

  • Business is all about Trust

    I had put this topic down a long time time back. I had wanted to write about this subject, but it is probably better that I write about it now. It is better that I write about it now because of what has happened with a small company called Healbe. Healbe is a small startup…

  • Setting Goals

    When you are looking to achieve anything in life, it is extremely important to set goals in place. The question that often comes up is why is it important set things in stone, why can’t goals evolve in the same manner in which the business plan of a company does? This was the question which…

  • Secrets of a successful Bootstrapper

    Use the resources that are at your disposal – Often we do not even realise all of the resources that are available to us. If you dig down hard, you would find that there are plenty of things that are available for free or at a cost that is almost close to nothing. If you…

  • Difficulties

    I did not write much last week because there were some difficulties. So I thought that I would write some about difficulty. There are those who tend to believe that their life is more difficult than the others. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every person’s life is littered with challenges, the face, shape…

  • Is Google Doomed?

    As much as market share loving analysts might want to make Google look like the star of the future, Google’s actual position for mobile is very poor. Market Share lovers would point to the prevalence of Android and the vast number of apps available on the platform and the number of manufacturers supporting Android. The…

  • Asking for a favour

    Today morning, Salma told me about a conversation which she had last week. I just had to put it out in public domain because; well, I just had to. Diplomatic Woman: Hi Salma, my daughter did not get into ABC School, can you help me out. Salma: Right now is probably not the right time.…

  • WhatsApp Is Worth It!

    Facebook spent a whopper to buy WhatsApp. Well whopper is an understatement. They spent $19 Billion, off which only $3 Billion is subject to shares vesting. So let us first put that number in perspective Facebook bought a small company with a team of 32 engineers for $19 Billion. Let us compare this with the…