It was all about #GoodScale at #PNGrowth2016 !! Pitching to Peers in Gurukul Style I participated as a volunteer this time around and missed the keynote in day one since I was busy in printing #MindFlip worksheets for 50 odd entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs were handpicked by a very credible set of people who knows what #Scale means to B2B products. Pallav and Shankar Maruwada did the priming...
Getting up at 4am in the morning and discovering 200 founders lined up at Madiwala, to catch the bus before the scheduled departure, instantly reminded me of the huge line of techies in front of the American Consulate at Annasalai for my H1B visa, two decades ago 🙂 Super pune gang @PNgrowth – @SarangLakare @amitdmishra @aballabh @vinaynathan @99sachins pic.twitter.com/fcfx6KCqxf — Abhijit...
To me, entrepreneurship is a dynamic manifestation of creating connected values with compassion; so I focus on creating connected values without worrying for my funding orientation. When I started, after coming out of Sun Microsystems, I was not thinking about money as I was able to get some money by helping people who were using the product that I built at Sun. I did not know what it takes to...
“Pulling oneself up by one’s bootstraps” refers to 19th century high-top boots that were pulled on by tugging at the ankle strap. It generally means doing something on your own, without any outside help. In the present day context, bootstrapping is a commonly used term used to describe startups that rather than seeking help from external investors, an entrepreneur fund the development of their...
Thank you for your enthusiastic participation in BootUpINDIA. We received over 100 high quality applications. The Jury painstakingly went through each of them to pick 8 companies who are being inducted into BootUpINDIA Inner Circle today! Before I share the 8 selected companies, I want to tell the applicants that didn’t make to the Inner Circle this time that there will be more opportunities to...
Paras Chopra from Wingify is great story for startup ecosystem in India and I personally become a fan of him after I watched his Unpluggd Talk on “How To Bootstrap A Tech Startup In India” – His simplicity and honesty gives lot of clarity on how he started his company. All that he wanted to earn is 50,000 INR and had no plan to create company that will generate 9M USD revenue. His...
Sridhar Vembu is a simple person, and most of what he says are tweet sized bits of wisdom. He inspires you almost instantly when you start conversing with him. That was the first impression when I spoke to him for the first time. He wanted to get into action as fast as possible. Before we recorded this video I was trying to make him comfortable with what I am going to ask but then he almost...
Being Independent is a fundamental right of all living being. But, as entrepreneurs and startups, when we face tons of challenge and deal with sheer hardship we end up submitting to various ideas that may or may not resemble our need. Think about why you become an entrepreneur in the first place – what is it that you wanted to solve and how you are creating value. The support system around...
