If you are thinking about starting up, then one thing which you must avoid like the plague and at least in the initial stages is “being condescending and egoistic” when you taste a little bit of success. Once you are well established, being condescending will become your habit . (And that is when you should learn from the Indian super stars like Amitabh Bachchan and Sachin Tendulkar who are treated like Gods in their country but remain as down to earth as they ever were.) Being egoistic and condescending towards your own friends and family as well as your clients can prove to be disastrous...

All Start Ups suffer from cash issues especially in the initial phases. So is there something you can do that costs very little and yet makes your brand visible to literally a million people without any conscious efforts from your side? Well Now you do. Do you own a car? Then with a 100 bucks, you can promote your brand for months without any need for you to invest your time in publicizing your brand. In these times when people are spoilt for choice, the only thing that catches their attention is Be absolutely spectacular. Be very different from the routine. Let me spell it out to you: Normal is...

When entrepreneurs are looking for inspiration and motivation, they read books about super successful people who’ve been there, done that. While that is of course, one of the great motivating factors, sometimes, inspiration can be found much closer to your home if only you’ll care to look. . I just returned from a great talk by one of my alumnus, Dr Gaurav Gandhi who has recently started up his venture mLabs, a company which aims to conduct research in cutting-edge circuit design for new technologies and substrates in nano electronics. (Yeah even I don’t know what that means but...

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