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In this year’s union budget finance minister Arun Jaitley may have sprung a surprise by focusing the government’s entrepreneurship agenda on the bottom of the pyramid. But perhaps that’s what the country really needs
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
June 5, 2021 | FF Daily #390: Advice for students and parents on how to think about the next steps
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It was not without reason that he was called the ‘people's president'. He had a moral compass that pointed True North
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
My nephew, who has five years’ work experience, had planned for an MBA in the US. Should he apply to B-schools now with the pandemic raging?
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Rhea Soman never thought that working at Lumiere, the research firm her mother Deepa founded, would be automatic. Rhea talks about how she began to see a place for herself, and is now playing a role in the firm's evolution. Deepa talks about what she and the firm are learning from the experience
Deepa Soman
Managing Director, Lumiere Business Solutions
If you want to democratize decision-making, you have to be dictatorial about data, says Mohanbir Sawhney. You need to centralize your data, and decentralize your execution
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The greater part of our economy would be meaningless without sex as a driving force or organizing principle
Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
What sort of legal framework ought an economically poor, but data rich nation ought to have? When you agree to an entity accessing your data, ought there be a time limit? And what does it mean to have a fundamental right to privacy?
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Indian technology has evolved in the context of the country’s politics. A review of ‘Midnight’s Machines: A Political History of Technology in India’
N Dayasindhu
Co-founder and CEO, itihaasa Research and Digital
The outlook for fintech companies has shifted from unchecked optimism to uncertainty. The rose-tinted glasses are off and some of the well-funded companies are pivoting. Their future will depend on their ability to look beyond technology as the panacea. Part 1 of a 4-part series
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
Business As Usual marketers are blissfully insulated from what’s happening on TikTok, an app that has at least 200 million of their own core customers hooked
Piyul Mukherjee
Co-Founder, Quipper Research Private Limited
True business leadership lies in pursuing a higher purpose than merely obtaining a larger monetary valuation of the business
Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
In his book ‘Managing in the Gray’, HBS ethics professor Joseph L Badaracco presents a framework to arrive at the best possible decisions in a hard situation
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This Week: How do you work with adaptive systems, why a tech mindset is not enough, and how do you measure achievement
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The Growth Factor Weekly: Systems view for finance, when going debt-free comes back to bite you, who will fund the MSMEs?
N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
