Tag: Growth

  • To be good…

    You have to be willing to be bad first… When I started writing this blog, I did, because there were those who told me that I spoke well and I should probably write. First of all, speaking and writing are two incredibly different skill. As much as singing and dancing are. Just because you are…

  • Two Steps Forward One Step Back

    When people write history, they like to smoothen the curve and make it seem like a constant journey from one milestone to the next. But history is, if anything, really messy. It is a process of attempting to move forward while repeatedly falling back only to find your way again. Between 1800 and 1900, many…

  • 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…

  • Blockchain Evolution

    Last year was when most of the non-nerdy world woke up to Crypto-Currency and Blockchain. For the most part this was thanks to the fact that Bitcoin was on a tear and was doubling in value every few weeks! Blockchain is the fundamental technology which makes crypto-currencies possible. Blockchain essentially stores all data in the…

  • Its more expensive now…

    Not really! We tend to often assume that things are a lot more expensive now than they used to be and our parents/grandparents would have us completely convinced of the same. I saw the chart below a few weeks back. To think that the first digital watch would be $12,000 dollars today. People lost their…

  • Knowledge fuels Ego

    As humankind evolved, so did our curiosity. Curiosity led us to question. The process of answering any question often begins from what we already know. The trouble with most things we know is that, every one of those things are based on certain assumptions. Knowledge is often passed on in the form of frameworks. This…

  • Speed is exaggerated

    There is an excessive amount of focus on speed, when it comes to building startups. One of the advices that is often provided to startups is to get out of the blocks really fast. The #FailFast philosophy has probably pushed more startups towards failure than towards success. If you were building a house, would you…

  • Yahoo! – The Upside

    A lot of ink has been spilt on the many mistakes made by Yahoo. How the company refused to buy Google or Facebook when the opportunity existed. Yahoo might in fact be a story of many missed opportunities. But those misses did not really define the failure. Yahoo failed because of a series of poor…

  • Secrets about Sales

    In the startup journey one of the hardest and by far the most critical things is to get sales for the company.  Sales is what finally drives the engine and brings the income that is required to prove that the business being pursued, is worth being pursued. When a startup embarks on sales, it is…

  • Taking the Small Steps

    Large market size is important; but a startup invariably starts niche and then grows. When I try to explain this to entrepreneurs, I find that most people walking down the path of entrepreneurship find it very hard to understand the need to start niche. Everyone can use this product is the usual answer I get. Most entrepreneurs…