Category: General Thinking

  • Imposter Syndrome is about achieving Potential

    Karmanye vadhikaraste Ma Phaleshu Kadachana, Ma Karmaphalaheturbhurma Te Sangostvakarmani This is perhaps the most important learning that one can take away from the Bhagwad Gita. It is also by far the least understood. What it says is : You have the right to work only; but never to its fruits. Let not the fruits of…

  • Success and Failure

    Humans like to look at others and say whether someone is successful or not. As much as we enjoy talking about successes and failures we do not have the ability to accurately define success and failure. Honestly, it is hard to measure success and failure. What it means to be successful or not, is different…

  • The Value of Thinking

    Do you know why Achimedes came up with the ‘Archimedes Principle’ in his bathtub? Not because he experienced it. Its because that was the only place where he could THINK peacefully! My obsession with thinking began when I started writing blogs regularly. In order to write something, there is great deal of thinking that needs…

  • Building a Profitable business

    Call me old fashioned, but the purpose of a business is to turn a profit. No matter what kind of company you build, or how much loss you pull over the course of the company’s growth, the company has to be able to generate a profit eventually, and that alone is the sign of true…

  • Are you recruiting problem solvers?

    Problems are a part and parcel of life. They pop up at strange times and strange place. They are usually very uncomfortable to deal with, and take up a lot of mind space. How quickly you are able to dispose off a problem, depends on… the problem. As a startup, you will have problems. Guaranteed.…

  • Knowledge kills Imagination while Ignorance flames it

    I tend to put down the various thoughts I have in mind as notes to someday write a blog about it. Last week as I was going through the countless number of notes that I had, I found quite a few notes about Knowledge, Ignorance and Imagination. I decided to combine all of them and…

  • Selling – How it works…

    There are many different terminologies that are often used when it comes to explaining sales. Most people who are engaged in sales, tend to talk about lead generation, customer engagement, conversion and so on and so forth. This is an extremely granular view of things. Sales is what happens when you know what to put…

  • Startups Club and What I have learnt during this journey

    I spoke about Startups Club and 5 learnings that I have taken away till now working with the many entrepreneurs who make up Startups Club. Sharing the video of the talk I gave during Seedstars World’s Bangalore Semi-finals. The audio is not particularly high quality and you may have to use a earphone.

  • Infallible Investor

    So last week I was reading this article. I could connect with the trials and tribulations that the lady was put through, only to come out with nothing much of substance at the end of the process. It may sound funny, when you read the article but the truth of the matter is that the…

  • Making things Happen

    For life as we know it, to exist on Earth Earth had to be at the right distance from the sun, warm enough, but not too hot nor too cold. Earth had to have a hot core so that the planet is alive and developing everyday. The core gives earth its magnetic field, which shields…