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What start-ups ought to do now
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

What start-ups ought to do now

The most successful companies in recent times are those that have incorporated Design Thinking into their DNA

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Pankaj Tibrewal

Pankaj Tibrewal

Founder, Operator and VC

Why don't strategies stick?
·Leadership & Organisation

Why don't strategies stick?

Narratives are much more memorable than bullet points on a PowerPoint slide when trying to make your teams understand your strategy

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Indranil Chakraborty

Indranil Chakraborty

Founder | Storyworks

Doctoral dissertations from a tea stall
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Doctoral dissertations from a tea stall

Cheap labour and algorithms make everything you want done possible. But it's not going to take you any place significant. Unless you’ve got chutzpah like KV Kamath or Arun Maira

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

How to get customers to own your brand
·Business & Strategy

How to get customers to own your brand

Companies as diverse as Airbnb and PepsiCo India are involving proactive consumers to gain competitive advantage

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Rajesh Srivastava

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

Is Old the New Useless?
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Is Old the New Useless?

What leads to the belief that twenty-first century companies cannot be created by people over 30? Or 40? Or even 50?

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Gourav Jaswal

Gourav Jaswal

Entrepreneur

How not to spend your capital
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

How not to spend your capital

Scarce capital forces you to think harder about your problems, including potential ones.

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Nitin Srivastava

Nitin Srivastava

CEO | Toqfactor Technologies

Team Indus wants to land a robot on the moon
·Leadership & Organisation

Team Indus wants to land a robot on the moon

Sheelika Ravishankar, who leads the HR function at Team Indus, talks about the Indus Spirit, and what their people have to do if they are to win the Google Lunar X Prize

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Are you too old to be an entrepreneur?
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Are you too old to be an entrepreneur?

Some of the most admired entrepreneurs started late in life. Dr G. Venkataswamy started Aravind Eye Hospitals after he retired; Steve Jobs was 52 when the iPhone was launched

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Develop a Growth Hacker's mindset
·Business & Strategy

Develop a Growth Hacker's mindset

How to attract users without having to shell out money on traditional marketing activities

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Rajesh Srivastava

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

Either you share or you lose
·Business & Strategy

Either you share or you lose

People are finding ways to share everything. Technology is enabling a new method of consumption that gives people access without ownership. Sooner or later your business will be a target

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor | Entrepreneur

Get out of the clichés trap
·Leadership & Organisation

Get out of the clichés trap

How do you ensure that your company's values are not just abstract concepts? Listen and share stories from employees on how they are living these values

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Indranil Chakraborty

Indranil Chakraborty

Founder | Storyworks