Tag: Growth

  • 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…

  • Online Retail – The Revolution?

    In a commerce class in school, I was taught that the point of a business is to earn a profit. Online retail startups have certainly caused me to question this notion.   Money, money everywhere; not a cent to be earned!   VS  I find it quite amazing that there is immense investor confidence in…

  • The Big G – Growth

    I work with startups and businesses which are trying to scale up, hence, soon or later, the question of ‘Growth’ arrives.  When do we begin to scale up? How do we grow? What is the best way to grow? How much growth in manageable? How to manage during growth? But every now and then, the…