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How mega founders unlock startup success - Part 2
Where do outliers come from? In Part 2 of their conversation Rahul Chandra, author and MD of Arkham Ventures and Third Eyesight’s founder and CEO Devangshu Dutta discuss the startup ecosystem, the power of storytelling, and building for Middle India
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FF Insights #613: VCs and startup culture
March 21, 2022: Newspapers battle to go digital; Life outside Excel; The global world order
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FF Daily #531: The right age for entrepreneurship
November 24, 2021: AR fights VR in the metaverse; How to choose a doctor; Fake news
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From Bombay to the Bay Area: The journey of “becoming a VC from nothing”
Shruti Gandhi, general partner and founding engineer at Array Ventures, talks about the power of people and relationships in building an entrepreneurial career from nothing, how to hustle when you know it’s the right time for you, and what it takes to be a constant learner
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
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FF Daily #459: Why show not tell matters
August 26, 2021: Unbundling market infra & market governance; How Taliban used tech; Road signs for a polarized world
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Gaining ‘Tracxn’ in the startup world
Neha Singh, co-founder of Tracxn Technologies, talks about why she chose to be a generalist despite her techie credentials; how the startup ecosystem is evolving in India; and what founders ought to know about venture capitalists
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
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Is it in the genes?
A conversation with Anu Acharya, CEO of Mapmygenome and former CEO of Ocimum Biosolutions, about why early influences matter, what it takes to scale two genomics companies in India, and everything else from Nutella cravings to an equal partnership at home and work
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
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The ant and the elephant
Designing for 100 million users is different from designing for 100 users and scaling it up for 100 million, says Shankar Maruwada, co-founder of EkStep Foundation
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FF Daily #303: Figures resemble their creators
February 19, 2021: When a big tech acquires a startup; Lessons from Paul Graham; What WFH really is
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FF Daily #283: Technology and trust in agriculture
January 27, 2021: How to perform under pressure; Why you should throw away your Bucket List; The state of Machine Learning
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FF Daily #282: How VC pitches are failing women entrepreneurs
January 25, 2021: The genius of RK Laxman; Why you should watch Disney-Pixar’s Inside Out; How to correct VC bias against women entrepreneurs; Where Bernie meets Gump
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Trendspotting 2021: Inside India’s Great Digital Reset
A new set of winners and losers are poised to emerge from the ashes of the pandemic. And a wall of foreign capital is pouring in to fund a slew of digital startups. A peek into what 2021 portends
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Haresh Chawla
Investor | Entrepreneur
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Dad, I want to start up!
Pallavi Desai wanted to start up seven years ago. Her dad Santosh Desai had serious reservations. She finally launched Creatures of Habit in February 2020. In Episode #4 of TAMG, they share the passions and anxieties, the highs and lows, as Pallavi set up an apparel label.
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What to copy from China
The Growth Factor: Local problems, global solutions; China strategy; MSME loans
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
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The walls of innovation
It requires sustained effort to move innovation from a poster on the wall to conversation and action in the hall
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Growth forces you to take risks that are not always sensible
Ecosystems have consumers with problems, authorities seeking to facilitate resolutions, and entrepreneurs who see growth in attempting to resolve it. An interview with Anand Deshpande and Amit Ranjan
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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Embrace chaos and ambiguity to build world class software products
Products often mean you are embarking on a choppy, risky, longish journey. You are thinking about a customer problem from first principles, with no sight of when you will get anywhere close to a business model, revenues, customers and profits
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Amit Ranjan
Architect for the National Digital Locker Project | Ministry of Electronics and IT
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The difficulty of entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs operate in an environment where consumers want the best a capitalist society can offer, but insist on protectionism of the kind only a socialist system confers
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Nothing personal. Just business
Biryani has the attention of entrepreneurs, investors and consumers. Biryani by Kilo was among the first off the block. This is the story of the founding team. Thus far
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel
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