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entrepreneurship
21 posts
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The Customer Drift: How Companies Stop Listening After They Raise
80% of companies believe they deliver a superior customer experience. Only 8% of their customers agree. The gap is not a mystery. It is a structural outcome of growth.
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Risk
Risk is the fear of losing something. Calculated risk is knowing the probability of losing and acting. Mitigating risk is decreasing the probability of losing. Taking risk is managing your fear of
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Goals-based management ( cutting through random shit )
Doing 10x efforts require a lot of patience and control to not do 1x or 0.5x things. And there has never been any clear playbook to do 10x. To do 10x, you have to only set goals you see as 10x and
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Employee Feedbacks
There are a lot of actions happening in the company, by people. People are just faces and never judge people or try to classify people. People keep growing or changing. Just keep seeing their actions
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Investor or business advisor values to look for in a seed raise
A successful pre-seed raise sets a lot of foundation for the eventual success of the organization. I will stay away from feedbacks of startups who conclude and are convinced that money is just money
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Startups that survive crashes
Startups that have survived and will survive arent the ones that are just created based on a market opportunity. They are created by passionate individuals who have envisioned the world after a few
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Socio-psychological factors for viral engagement
Human beings are instinctively social creatures. Social media apps, largely since Facebook, have categorically tapped into some basic elements of social interaction, and brought it into cyberspace;
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Want to be an idea machine?
Want to be an athlete? Run everyday. And be disciplined about it. Want to be a great musician, play music everyday. Want to learn things in your life, read an hour everyday Want to be an idea
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Have goals…
Hard work without goals is like players with no score to make. Have goals. And have goals not just for success, have goals to be the person what is needed to achieve those goals. Goals are just
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Productive Idea Flow
Productive Idea flow is when ideas keep on building over each other. You arrive at a good idea which is improvement over your current product and spend some time visualising how everything will look
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Being successful
A very noble thought has come to a mind today lets be successful. The only problem is the mind does not know what is being successful. Lets drill down to what is being successful. Being successful
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On Entrepreneurship and learnings from Swami Vivekananda
Solution to all problems and living in a higher state is very simple though under-rated it is surrendering. Surrendering to an idea, a cause, a desire to knowledge, or just any work you are doing in
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Compound interest value of efforts
Making disciplined effort is extremely important. Pick out the projects that matters to you most and keep dedicating small or large time to them everyday. Fix amount of time you will dedicate. These
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Being industrious
There is no way to be happy, rich and wealthy without being industrious. We need to let go of every distraction idea and focus on being industrious on one thing at a time. Having the right focus and
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Restlessness in enterprises
Restlessness is the most anti-productive feeling. It is only beneficial for people who are just put on work to show restlessness to get work done. Also, that is a very bad way to get work done. It is
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Startup perspective to AAP failure
[Also published at nextbigwhat here: http://www.nextbigwhat.com/aap-startup-scaling-up-297/ ] We have been seeing many thought leaders and risk takers failing in industry. They are able to gain good
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Art of naming your users in ideation process
[Published on nextbigwhat.com here http://www.nextbigwhat.com/user-persona-ideation-and-product-attributes-297 ] In the initial days after I passed out from IIT, used to have dozens of business plans
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Behind your next disruptive innovation
[Published at nextbigwhat.com here] The frustration of finding an innovation is killing your innovation. The frustration of thinking how your competitor or peers are coming up with those innovative
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Plan for big data and real time contextual analysis (and drop conventional google search optimizations )
[Update: check Steve Jobs video at the end of this article] To most of the discussions happening at the time, big data is another fad. Serious players know that world is now changing, and will be
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I live on I Can Do It Street
This is the best story I have ever heard. Story is famously known as leaving the city of regret. Dont know the original source, so just putting it below. I had not really planned on taking a trip
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Dear entrepreneur, making money is easy !
(published on nextbigwhat here) If you are really hurt by reading the title and planning to share this with wtf, please hold on and read more. You might be struggling from last 2-3 years building an