Comments on: Startups and the Art of Growing Up http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/ We Heart Startups! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Deepesh http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/comment-page-1/#comment-108612 Deepesh Thu, 28 May 2009 05:39:24 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/#comment-108612 Guys, 2 words which describe how overcome these perils have been mentioned by the Author and we missed it, well so have many organisations across the country. Magic word is Process and in the article refer para 2 "But as the startup grows, the lack of systems and processes start inhibiting growth" How do we develop that? Well easier part is to have some software in mind to do 2 critical things, ERP and CRM, both these are systems and process enablers than just software solutions. Also have a time frame for each of these software since they need to be phased out every 3-4 years to something better and new. I have been working for 12 years in various companies big and small i have rarely come across a situation where both of them religiously used. Yes i can be wrong as well! Need help means talk to experts who tend to charge you a bomb! :-( Guys,

2 words which describe how overcome these perils have been mentioned by the Author and we missed it, well so have many organisations across the country.

Magic word is Process and in the article refer para 2
“But as the startup grows, the lack of systems and processes start inhibiting growth”

How do we develop that?
Well easier part is to have some software in mind to do 2 critical things, ERP and CRM, both these are systems and process enablers than just software solutions. Also have a time frame for each of these software since they need to be phased out every 3-4 years to something better and new.

I have been working for 12 years in various companies big and small i have rarely come across a situation where both of them religiously used.

Yes i can be wrong as well!

Need help means talk to experts who tend to charge you a bomb! :-(

]]> By: Rs.Mani http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/comment-page-1/#comment-108594 Rs.Mani Wed, 27 May 2009 14:30:59 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/#comment-108594 a) Determination is the single most important quality in a startup founder. If founders are in any superhuman in any way, it was in their perseverance. b) Perserverance is important because in a startup, nothing goes according to plan. Founders live day to day with a sense of uncertainity, isolation and some times lack of progress. c) Innovation = Startups Startups, by their nature, are doing new things - and when you do new things people often reject you. But only in early days ! It’s curious to think that the technology we take for granted now, like web-based email, was once dismissed as unpromising. Innovations seems inevitable in retrospect, but at the same time it’s an uphill task. d) In addition to perseverance, founders need to be adaptable. Not only because it takes a certain level of mental flexibility to understand what users want, but because the plan will probably change. a) Determination is the single most important quality in a startup founder. If founders are in any superhuman in any way, it was in their perseverance.
b) Perserverance is important because in a startup, nothing goes according to plan. Founders live day to day with a sense of uncertainity, isolation and some times lack of progress.
c) Innovation = Startups
Startups, by their nature, are doing new things – and when you do new things people often reject you. But only in early days ! It’s curious to think that the technology we take for granted now, like web-based email, was once dismissed as unpromising. Innovations seems inevitable in retrospect, but at the same time it’s an uphill task.
d) In addition to perseverance, founders need to be adaptable. Not only because it takes a certain level of mental flexibility to understand what users want, but because the plan will probably change.

]]> By: Sanjay Anandaram http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/comment-page-1/#comment-108578 Sanjay Anandaram Wed, 27 May 2009 00:29:21 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/#comment-108578 Thanks! The objective was to highlight the need for "growing up" and not to live in perpetual start-up mode; Awareness is more than half the battle, else blind spots take over. Entrepreneurial energy finds the resources to address questions and concerns that awareness creates:) Thanks! The objective was to highlight the need for “growing up” and not to live in perpetual start-up mode; Awareness is more than half the battle, else blind spots take over. Entrepreneurial energy finds the resources to address questions and concerns that awareness creates:)

]]> By: HimS http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/comment-page-1/#comment-108572 HimS Tue, 26 May 2009 18:31:50 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/#comment-108572 This article is like foreplay without orgasm :) - builds the expectations and just when you are ready to understand what is needed to get out of the mess you are in right now, it ends... Waiting for the follow-up post This article is like foreplay without orgasm :) – builds the expectations and just when you are ready to understand what is needed to get out of the mess you are in right now, it ends…
Waiting for the follow-up post

]]> By: akshat http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/comment-page-1/#comment-108564 akshat Tue, 26 May 2009 12:18:51 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/startups-and-the-art-of-growing-up-297/#comment-108564 well articulated - would have helped if sanjay also wrote about how to prevent it and what a startup could do (in real terms) to not get into this trap well articulated – would have helped if sanjay also wrote about how to prevent it and what a startup could do (in real terms) to not get into this trap

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