·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Rejoice, 'tis the season of high valuations!
Inflated valuations? No problem. It is a good thing actually and demonstrates entrepreneurship financing is maturing
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Sachin Joneja
Independent Consultant
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·Leadership & Organisation
A time to reflect
A curated selection of five pieces that got our attention this past week. These are intended to help introspect on our day off.
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·Leadership & Organisation
May the fastest sperm win
16 kms/hour. That is the minimum speed entrepreneurs and CEOs ought to be able to run at to stay on top
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Dr. Rajat Chauhan
Founder | Back2Fitness
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Confessions of a recovering junkie
The pleasure centres that tickle Internet junkies and drug addicts are the same - we know this because of recent advances in the neurosciences
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Business & Strategy
How to get your sales team to build relationships
It makes better business sense to serve a customer over the lifetime of the relationship rather than merely sell. A simple way to make that happen is by changing how you incentivise your salespersons
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·Business & Strategy
The new mantra of consultative selling
Smart companies aren't hiring salespeople anymore. They're investing, with good reason, in a different breed altogether.
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·Business & Strategy
How to go global in a jiffy
It often took several years - and sometimes decades - for companies to spread their wings around the world. But now, the old globalisation model is set to change dramatically.
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·Leadership & Organisation
Who wants to be CEO?
If you want to be CEO, stop thinking of yourself as a paid professional. Think of yourself as the owner
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The New Traditionals
Family managed businesses run the risk of being run over by their more contemporary counterparts. If they adhere to some ground rules though, they can come up trumps.
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Harsh Vardhan
Strategy Consultant
·Business & Strategy
What makes Alibaba tick
Jack Ma who created Alibaba, China's biggest online marketplace is a hero in the country. And with good reason at that.
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·Business & Strategy
How to create an Indian MBA
The MBA programme, as we know it in India today, is an import from the West with modest efforts at adaptation. The time to change it has come.
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Rishikesha T Krishnan
Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy
·Business & Strategy
How to build a business model
Some pointers to books, articles, websites and hidden links on what it takes to build a great business model
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Lessons from a 4-day old start up
Eight lessons that emerged in setting Founding Fuel up
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
What Steve Jobs 2.0 can teach Housing.com’s Rahul Yadav 1.0
Many young tech entrepreneurs prefer to wear arrogance on their sleeve. Much like Steve Jobs did at Apple. Except that they are picking up the wrong lesson to learn.
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Breaking the stalemate
The conflict between regulators and entrepreneurs in India is a vicious cycle, a Catch-22 that needs to be broken.
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Dinesh Narayanan
Independent journalist | Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation