The 33kV Wall
The energy transition is creating a brief opening in one of the hardest industrial sectors to crack. Can a new generation of Indian companies build lasting capabilities before the window closes?
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Bharti Krishnan
Founder | Finetrain
Entrepreneurship Startups And Innovation
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Factories Without Formulas
India is investing billions in battery manufacturing. But without the capital to fund indigenous technology, the intelligence inside those factories may continue to be imported.
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Bharti Krishnan & Mridu Jhangiani
·Product & Innovation
From Bazaar to Breakthrough
The next phase of global innovation may emerge not from invention, but from how India adapts and stretches existing tools.
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Shrinath V
Founder, The Salient Advisory | Product & AI Strategy Advisor
·Founder Journeys
The best stories of 2024
Scintillating, insightful conversations and incisive articles on business, entrepreneurship and geopolitical trends
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
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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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
How mega founders unlock startup success - Part 1
Good delusions, irrational goals, marathon mindset. In Part 1 of their conversation, Rahul Chandra, author and MD of Arkham Ventures and Third Eyesight’s founder and CEO Devangshu Dutta discuss what sets outlier entrepreneurs apart
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
The biggest non-Excelable part of the startup success puzzle
An extract from Rahul Chandra’s book, ‘Tightrope to the Moon: How Mega Founders Win the Startup War’
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Rahul Chandra
Managing Director | Arkam Ventures
·Founder Journeys
The risk taker
What makes Elon Musk tick? Insights from the biography by Walter Isaacson
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D Shivakumar
Operating Partner | Advent International
·Founder Journeys
From employee to entrepreneur
A message to young graduates: Don’t ignore regular salaried employment. It can gain you valuable business experience and serve as a springboard to an entrepreneurial career
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S. Ramakrishna (Rama) Velamuri
Strategic Growth & Innovation Expert | Visiting Professor
·Founder Journeys
The Middle India consumer
Middle India has low trust for a new interface. Here’s how Razorpay, Smartstaff, Meesho, Dehaat and Krazybee are investing in gaining trust. An extract from ‘Winning Middle India: The Story of India’s New-Age Entrepreneurs’, by Bala Srinivasa and T.N. Hari
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
FF Insights #701: Making trillion-dollar companies
July 25, 2022: Climate propaganda; The trouble with education’s ‘success formula’; Age of surveillance
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
FF Insights #696: Treat everything as an experiment
July 18, 2022: James Webb’s impact; What can’t be taught; The paradox
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
FF Insights #674: Why some startups fail
June 16, 2022: Crypto matters; The toll of psychiatric drugs; Defining age
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
The Contrarian
Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom. For the longest time, no one took much notice. But now people are curious about what makes him—and Zoho—tick
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor | Founding Fuel
·Venture Ecosystem
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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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
FF Insights #603: A fairy tale called startup
March 4, 2022: The state of nuclear fusion; Putin’s inner circle; Hooked
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
FF Insights #592: Sustainable innovation
February 17, 2022: The average and the poor in India; How to be a bad boss; Corrigendum
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
How Sugar Cosmetics found its sweet spot
Vineeta Singh, CEO of Sugar Cosmetics, talks about turning fears into wins, taking an unconventional approach to succeed in a David & Goliath scenario, and building resilience from unexpected sources
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
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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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
An edtech entrepreneur’s learning journey
Parul Gupta, co-founder and president of Springboard, talks about how to build a trusted education brand, cultivate a growth mindset and unlock the big opportunities that lie ahead in edtech
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
·Founder Journeys
FF Daily #475: Think like an entrepreneur
September 15, 2021: Covid strikes education; The line between failure and fraud; Divine signs
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
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
·Founder Journeys
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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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
FF Daily #453: The phases of disruption
August 19, 2021: How balloon angioplasty proved to be a disruptive technology; The difficulty of interpreting data; How Amazon wins; Star Wars explained
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
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
·Product & Innovation
FF Daily #416: Practical innovation
July 6, 2021: Innovate to solve immediate and consequential problems; Vaccine hesitancy; The space race; Thinking time
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Founding Fuel
·Product & Innovation
FF Daily #411: What the Wright brothers got right
June 30, 2021: Clayton Christensen on reframing the problem; A new normal in Singapore; Michael Holding on racism; How teachers feel now
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Founding Fuel
·Founder Journeys
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
·Founder Journeys
An Indian beauty upstart in the West
A new breed of South Asian women entrepreneurs is leading Americans to embrace the Indian grandmother’s age-old beauty secrets in new easy-to-use ways. As a marketing strategy, it is Indian tradition marketed in digitally native formats
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Aparajita (Opu) Bhattacharyya
Product Strategy & Monetization | Microsoft Azure, Seattle
·Product & Innovation
FF Daily #382: The battle between fuel and friction
May 27, 2021: Why do new ideas meet with resistance; The politics of Gandhi; Zoom fatigue; Here comes the sun
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Founding Fuel
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