·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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·Economy, Policy & Society
The games we play with each other
Solutions for problems such as climate change are unlikely to come from experts who rely on numbers, and from economists who rely on self-interest and the invisible hand for progress. This is part of a zero sum, competitive, narrative. But nature is complex and insists on cooperation
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Arun Maira
Former Chairman, BCG India, Member, Planning Commission
·Economy, Policy & Society
An inflection point is upon us
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a few important experiments are going on at an unprecedented scale
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Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Moonlighting: An idea whose time has come
In this Founding Fuel Masterclass, Satish Pradhan, TN Hari, Surabhi Sanchita and Kavi Arasu unpack the undercurrents and how leaders are thinking about it
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·Business & Strategy
Why we might be reading the data wrong
Among other things, the problem might lie with our inadequate understanding of the domain we are trying to map through data
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Nitin Srivastava
CEO, Toqfactor Technologies
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Trust is built at Ground Zero
How does one build trust among founders in a start up team?
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·Economy, Policy & Society
Who took away my film?
Will streaming services decimate movie theatres now? Damodar and Harsh Mall debate what entertainment will look like post-pandemic
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Harsh Mall
Marketing Strategy & GTM, Walmart
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The long journey from Simputer to FreeCharge
Once upon a time, there was the Simputer. It was intended to be the first Indian handheld computing device and was built by some of the finest engineers. It now lies in an unmarked grave. But FreeCharge, built by a philosophy major is now the rage. Irony, anyone?
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Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
The birth of a model scientific institute
Hari Pulakkat tells the story of how Homi Bhabha set up TIFR in this extract from his new book, ‘Space. Life. Matter: The Coming of Age of Indian Science’
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Hari Pulakkat
Science journalist and writer
·Economy, Policy & Society
Smartphones, kapda, makaan
What should we make of the humungous numbers being reported by ecommerce companies around festive sales?
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Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Cracking wicked problems
This Week: Grand challenges, collective ingenuity, building personal brands, procrastination and more
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Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Talent drives strategy in the digital era. Is HR ready?
Today business strategy means sensing new opportunities, and people are the key to creating value. So how do you approach human capital in this new era? Corporate guru Ram Charan, McKinsey’s Dominic Barton and Korn Ferry’s Dennis Carey explore in their book ‘Talent Wins’
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·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
WFH: An unbalancing act (Or, I am distracted!)
The whole family is at home. I’m bombarded with calls all day. There’s housework too. I can’t find quiet corner to hunker down and focus
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
WFH Daily #120: Andre Agassi on problem solving and beating Boris Becker
July 21: The surprising connection between Maggi and Mahabharat; John Lewis on how to get into good trouble; why WFH isn’t new
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Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
India versus Pakistan is not cricket, but war
Pointers to why reside in political theory, evolutionary biology, the emergence of artificial intelligence and our failure to see it all
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel