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How well do you know your numbers?
"Know your numbers’ is a fundamental precept of a business ~ Bill gates" You have the idea. You have the passion. A solid technical know-how of how to make your product. You know you are just inches away from disrupting the market with your idea. You know the...
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The Dark Side of Entrepreneurship
What is the dark side of entrepreneurship? The only place we hear about the dark side is - Star Wars! and trust me, their dark side of star wars is not as bad as the dark side of entrepreneurship. It took me years of working as an entrepreneur to realize...
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Why do most new businesses and Startups Fail?
Why do startups fail in India? or for that matter, why do startups fail in any country? This is one hot favourite question asked "very often" on Quora. Finally, Failure is something people are talking about and i am not complaining about it. The failure of a business...
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The Entrepreneurship Guide: Steps to becoming an Entrepreneur!
It’s a new world! A world of start-ups. The startup revolution has made things way more easy, way more accessible for all of us. And this has caught the eyes of Corporate, media and most importantly VCs,bringing the much-deserved attention to their cause. Consider...
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The only Online Business Directory website Resource you will ever need
Long before just dial - the famous online business directory in India made a name for itself in the online business directory space, I ran an online business directory for a small city (along with my brother) in India by the name of Rudrapuronline (the website is not...
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How to become a Successful Freelancer?
A freelancer is a self-employed person who is not bound by the so-called commitments of a job. A Freelancer (usually) does not take long-term jobs and likes to plan his/her work timings as per the jobs in hand. I have freelanced in past through websites like upwork,...
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Famous Indian startups that closed in 2018
Ladies and Gentlemen. Presenting to you – the list of failed startups from the year 2018 with reasons of closure and my analysis of what went wrong with them. Yes, I Know. It took longer than expected but I had been extremely busy planning, writing and finally...
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10 major Indian startups which closed in the year 2017
Last year I wrote an article with a list of failed startups in the year 2016 and the lessons we learned from these failures. Why I cover a list of failed startups and a list of failed companies every year is for the simple reason “There are lessons to be learned from...
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List of Failed Startups in India in 2016
In the last few months, VC-backed Indian startup companies have finally come face to face with harsh realities of the startup world. The exponential growth, they claimed while taking funds from VCs had made way for a negative growth. Tough questions were to be...
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Yes. I hated saying “NO” and it screwed my initial years of Entrepreneurship
The initial years of an Entrepreneur’s life are difficult. Consider this: As an Employee, you always had a senior to resolve your issues. Now, you have some 10 odd employees looking up to you for every small decision. As an Employee, you could do things and get away...
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How to Raise Funds for Startup?
Raising funds is one of the toughest parts of starting a startup. Think of money or funds as the most important part of running a startup, If your business is a car, money is the fuel. The car just does not move without money. “How to raise funds for startup in...
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How to quickly get Rich?
The best questions are reserved for the end of the show. Why wouldn’t they be? The show is about to end. The host will walk away will the ticket’s money you paid him and you are left wondering “Did I recover my money”. I have not been doing shows but conducting...
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The Entrepreneurial journey so far!
8+ years is a long time. At least it looks long when you count the white hair on my beard and the big bunch of white hair hiding under my turban. Please add one more advantage of wearing a turban to the list. The religious zealots can update their list 😊 Jokes apart!...
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How to Start a Startup?
As per you what are the requirements to start a start a small business or a startup? Since all of us are so gung-ho about raising funds, let me make my question a little simpler and ask you "Is money the only prerequisite to starting a business?". I am sent a lot of...
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How our “unplanned” Startup Started
Do we need to plan before starting our first business venture (startup)? I see so many good ideas stay at the stage of ideas, as the founders of the idea are busy planning“ the next big thing”. They never get to the stage of execution. Are plans overrated? If you ask...
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