Tag Archives: Entrepreneurship

16 Dec

3 Do’s And Don’ts For Early Stage Entrepreneurs [Do not hire a team that NEEDS to be motivated]

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3 Do’s And Don’ts For Early Stage Entrepreneurs [Do not hire a team that NEEDS to be motivated]

Everyone has an idea, 1 in 10 get started, 1 in 100 get funded and 1 in 1000 reach some kind of scale. What decides which become successful?There is a lot of talk these days about entrepreneurship, specifically focusing on Ideas and … Read More »

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20 Aug

Easy Come, Easy Go [Startup Funding]

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Easy come, easy go is an old saying. If something’s not been really earned but been almost handed over as an entitlement or a gift, its value tends to get undermined over time, sometimes very rapidly as in the above example. There are enough examples all around of all types of businesses that have lost their way because they came into too much money without being questioned and without having to really work hard in a disciplined and focused manner. Read More »

 
10 Aug

Book Review: Connect The Dots by Rashmi Bansal

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There are very few English books written with Indian audience in mind and Rashmi Bansal’s Connect The Dots is amongst them. The book is specifically for people who talk to themselves in Hindi but with the world in English. Connect … Read More »

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28 Jun

Can Meena Win the Race of Enterpreneurship?

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Can Meena Win the Race of Enterpreneurship?

Editor’s Note: Dear Pi readers, introducing here our most revered Prof Vivek Wadhwa (needs no introduction though!) from United States who is an entrepreneur turned academic. He is a Visiting Scholar at UC-Berkeley, Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School … Read More »

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12 Apr

Success of Convergence and a Take on Solepreneurs

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Success of convergence in recent time can be best described by camera mobiles which has gained more acceptance than cameras or mobiles alone. Even a less powerful camera combined with a mobile makes a more successful product than a powerful camera alone. Another example, IPL. All would agree that IPL is not about just cricket but a convergence of Bollywood and Cricket. While Bollywood markets it and brings the eye balls, the cricketers deliver the actual product. Imagine IPL without Bollywood. ICL, anyone? Read More »

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02 Apr

Temporary shift or Losing focus? Watch out!

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Temporary shift or Losing focus? Watch out!

The young founder was starting to lose hope with the product. Technology-wise they were good but were failing on the marketing side. They found it difficult to even get some decent press coverage, while the competitors got everything going even … Read More »

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11 Jan

Revamping Practices in your Venture – There are no Holy Cows

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Revamping Practices in your Venture – There are no Holy Cows

I received a letter by courier yet again last week from a well known financial institution. It took me a while to reach the letter since the envelope in which the letter was enclosed had been fortified by no less … Read More »

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15 Dec

A Lesson or two in Marketing from Seth Godin [Power of Freebie]

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A Lesson or two in Marketing from Seth Godin [Power of Freebie]

Seth Godin, better known for coining the word ‘permission marketing’ has launched a free ebook ‘What Matters Now’, that brings together 70 big thinkers and each one of them shares an idea – 1 page: 1 author.

The book is free (download it from here, also embedded towards the end of this post), but the real reason why this book launch is extremely important is this – Seth is launching Linchpin on Jan 26, 2010 and the free ebook is precursor to keep the buzz going. Read More »

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15 Dec

Essential Business Plan For Start-ups – Individual Hoshin Plan – Part 1

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Essential Business Plan For Start-ups - Individual Hoshin Plan - Part 1

There are innumerable articles and templates for preparing a business plan for start-ups. But what I found is that most of them are too exhaustive and so a strong de-motivator for an enthusiastic individual who wants to pen down his ideas and present it to his potential investors/advisers.

Immaterial of the scale of the business viz., financial size or employee size, the below business plan is a good starting point. When one has got this right, a large part of planning has been accomplished. Depending on one’s purpose, additional information and more details can always be added. Read More »

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