Category: Founder

Ideas from da Vinci, Einstein, & Steve Jobs worth teaching our children?

1. Curiosity- the most important thing If you see da Vinci’s sketches, you will see an exuberant & playful mind dancing across nature. He asks & answers 100s of charmingly random questions. Leonardo did not need to know these things to paint the Mona Lisa – it helped! 2. Create a reality distortion field When…
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Inspiring sales & life lessons from Air Deccan’s Mr. G.R. Gopinath

In the early days, Mr. Gopinath was a successful agriculturist. And he decided to move into micro-irrigation turnkey consulting. This is what he had to say: “For 2 years, I loaded all the agri-equipment that I set out to market in the car boot and hit the road. While on these forays, I combined the…
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What is true entrepreneurship?

Many celebrate “entrepreneurship as jumping off a cliff & assembling the plane on the way down”. Bollocks! Maybe that’s Russian Roulette or a Kamikaze mission – but that’s definitely NOT entrepreneurship! Today’s impressionable teenagers think ‘taking unnecessary risks’ is entrepreneurship.Here are some thoughts: 1) Understanding the passion early & having the guts to chase it…
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5 lifehacks for Founders and Marketers to generate buzz and PR with Zero budget

Here are 5 tried-and-tested lifehacks for founders and marketers to get the word going with no expenses involved: We are living in the sharing & DIY economy. How many of these tactics are you using? 1. Sign up to be a ‘source’ free of charge on Help a Reporter Out (HARO) – to get a…
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