Tag: Startup

  • 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…

  • Belief is the most valuable currency for a startup

    If the owner of a pharmaceutical company that produces Vitamin tablets; says that he believes that Vitamin tablets are a very important source of nutrients for the body and he eats the tablets everyday. Do you think, he really believes it? He may or he may not, you can’t tell. His beliefs are within him. But do YOU…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Failure

    “One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.” I love this quote from ‘Kung Fu Panda’. I have seen this quote to be true on so many levels and in so many situations. Nobody likes to fail and failure is not a very pleasant experience. But some of the best…

  • Ramblings on Perseverance

    Steve Jobs is considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our times. He was involved in three ventures, Apple, Next and Pixar; of which two can be considered bonafide successes. Next was more of an acqui-hire and we really do not know if it would have been a hit, stand-alone. But if we were…

  • 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…

  • An Important lesson on managing Teams

    I was wondering why it is, that we tend to have better meetings at Startups Club when the group tends to be smaller than when we have larger groups. I found the answer in a book called ‘The art of thinking clearly’. In 1913 Maximilian Ringelmann, a French engineer, conducted an experiment on horses! After…

  • Having your sights on the goal!

    So yesterday, my partner’s son had gone to an amusement park and his bag got misplaced. Worse the bag had his newly acquired iPhone. He was still at the amusement park when we came to know of this, and as you would expect it was shocking to hear this. After the initial “Oh Shit!” “God!”…