Image by Ravages via Flickr Entrepreneurship 2.0 What should all of us who care about entrepreneurship and helping it thrive in the Indian milieu do? There are three simple steps I believe we can take. Story telling Collect and disseminate stories of entrepreneurial success at every forum and opportunity. Blog about it, write it...
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Rubber meets the road In early 2004, in its fifth year, our first startup broke even. I recall us making plans to finally buy decent ergonomic chairs for our committed and long-suffering employees. The demands of growth and the challenges of cash flow made sure we never got...
Image via Wikipedia Watching the numbers, one dish at a time Ramani, my neighbor is himself a first generation entrepreneur. Though formally trained as a chemical engineer he has built a successful electrical business, initially in trading and subsequently in panel manufacturing. An active member of the morning walking group at the local park,...
Lessons from a close shave In 1996, when I first returned to India, Ramani, my neighbor and friend, took me to the local barber. Harking back to the barber shops of my childhood, it was two barber chairs in a room the size of large shower stall. Prasad (all names changed to protect the...
“I’ve already spent more time on this than this deal is worth to me.” That’s what a prospective business partner said to me, complaining about the 45 minutes we had spent in a meeting together. I was taken aback. I had just flown most of the previous 20 hours (from Bangalore to Chennai to...
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is a riddle philosophers have posed to question reality and its relationship to observation. Much of the entrepreneurship in India is like trees falling (or growing) silently in an unobserved forest. The media rarely...
The topic of first time entrepreneurs and specifically the experience of raising (or not) of venture capital is a recurring theme on a number of blogs, including Sujai in his Wireless India blog, Sramanamitra, Pluggd.in. To add to the discussion, here is a brief snapshot of my experience. I have had the singular fortune...
I am an entrepreneur interested in Startups and culture in companies. I'm married to @chitrasri a musician and writer and am the father of girls - two. More...
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