Dec 26, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
People need to feel secure In their relationships At their workplace Amoungst colleagues Around competition People need to be told “I will watch out for you” When times are bad When times are good People want to...Dec 23, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
I just returned from a fundraising road trip. 6 days 3 countries 5 cities 1 key learning “So Ankur, what do you think of this player xxx?” “I think highly of them, but they are not in the same space” “But they can get...Dec 14, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
When Vidur was 6 months old, we conducted a mental experiment. Every night, when we put him to sleep, we played music. The same kind. Every time. For about 3 weeks, we followed this regime. While putting in effort to put him to sleep. Effort that was...Dec 7, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
Something has changed on Uber maps. My home address, when pinned, reads the name of the colony next door. So this morning I found my driver wandering in that colony. Called him to check. “Sir – but you entered the name of this colony, so I came...Dec 5, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
Is perhaps the only rule of fund raising as well “Don’t waste your time with explanations. People want to hear what they want to hear” Prepare well. And that means – prepare for what works for them. Not what works for you. On...Nov 30, 2016 | Entrepreneurship
Last evening, at a team dinner, a much loved colleague remarked “We don’t have assholes in the founding team” He didn’t mean assholes. Instead, he was using it interchangeably with attributes such as taskmaster, autocratic, “shut...