In the last two months of 2010, I participated in a number of meetings with founders of startups – as an adviser, reviewer or investor. Interestingly in nearly every one of these meetings the same questions kept coming up. In particular four different companies - two nascent startups and a couple in their early...
Image by F33 via Flickr “Son, businesses can succeed or fail. Because your business fails doesn’t mean you have failed!” My father said this to me, one evening as the two of us sat down to discuss how the startup I headed was doing. For a little over four years I had been running...
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 laurenfarmer via Flickr “We’d like you to come on board as a founder.” After the first few seconds of excitement and dare I say, exhilaration, reality sets in. “Can you explain to me what being a founder means?” Does being a founder mean, like a parent, being present when conceived? And will...
Last week one of the first tweets I came across, as I started my day, was a re-tweet by @CharlieCurve — a poetical summary of Gary Vaynerchuk (@garyvee) earlier tweet. “Stop worrying about who’s President, what the market did and FOCUS on your business & brand.” Yep, focus – say it again – FOCUS...
Yesterday I read an interview with Kiran Nadkarni, former VC and presently founder/CEO of Kaati Zone on CitizenMatters.in. Kiran was one of the first VCs that I met when I came to India in 1995/6. At that time he had just begun working with Bill Draper’s organization after having run ICICI Ventures and was...
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...