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How to create an Indian MBA
·Business & Strategy

How to create an Indian MBA

The MBA programme, as we know it in India today, is an import from the West with modest efforts at adaptation. The time to change it has come.

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Rishikesha T Krishnan

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

How to build a business model
·Business & Strategy

How to build a business model

Some pointers to books, articles, websites and hidden links on what it takes to build a great business model

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R Sriram

R Sriram

Co-Founder | Next Practice Retail

Lessons from a 4-day old start up
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Lessons from a 4-day old start up

Eight lessons that emerged in setting Founding Fuel up

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

What Steve Jobs 2.0 can teach Housing.com’s Rahul Yadav 1.0
·Leadership & Organisation

What Steve Jobs 2.0 can teach Housing.com’s Rahul Yadav 1.0

Many young tech entrepreneurs prefer to wear arrogance on their sleeve. Much like Steve Jobs did at Apple. Except that they are picking up the wrong lesson to learn.

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N S Ramnath

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Breaking the stalemate
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Breaking the stalemate

The conflict between regulators and entrepreneurs in India is a vicious cycle, a Catch-22 that needs to be broken.

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Dinesh Narayanan

Dinesh Narayanan

Independent journalist | Author of The RSS and The Making of The Deep Nation

How will you measure your life?
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

How will you measure your life?

Acquiring influence alone as a tool for personal branding is a rather shallow way of looking at things in the long run

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Hunting with the hounds
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Hunting with the hounds

Rahul Sharma has built audacity into Micromax. He wants to take on the might of Xiaomi, Samsung and even Google, in the smartphone market

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Rohin Dharmakumar

Rohin Dharmakumar

CEO & Cofounder | The Ken

Brand friend for life
·Business & Strategy

Brand friend for life

Most consumers trust earned media - recommendations from friends and family - above all other forms of advertising

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Rajesh Srivastava

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

Founders' Podcast
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Founders' Podcast

Charles Assisi, Indrajit Gupta & C S Swaminathan discuss the underlying philosophy behind Founding Fuel

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The love versus competence debate
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

The love versus competence debate

Experiment and struggle, make mistakes, take chances, and you may land up in the magic quadrant of high love and high competence

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Subroto Bagchi

Subroto Bagchi

Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist

Turning Your Customers into Brand Advocates
·Business & Strategy

Turning Your Customers into Brand Advocates

There's a smart way to turn customers into your biggest business ambassadors--and that too, without wasting big bucks on advertising.

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Rajesh Srivastava

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author