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Mar 24, 2015·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Lessons from a 4-day old start up

Eight lessons that emerged in setting Founding Fuel up

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Mar 24, 2015·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.

N S Ramnath

Senior Editor | Founding Fuel

Mar 22, 2015·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.

Dinesh Narayanan

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

Mar 22, 2015·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

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Mar 22, 2015·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

Rohin Dharmakumar

CEO & Cofounder | The Ken

Mar 22, 2015·Business & Strategy

Brand friend for life

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

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

Mar 19, 2015·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Don’t comment on the library. Read the books

Should venture capitalists be worried about a bubble? It's not relevant

Venky Ganesan

Managing Director | Menlo Ventures

Mar 18, 2015·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Founders' Podcast

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

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Mar 17, 2015·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

Subroto Bagchi

Author, entrepreneur and philanthropist

Mar 17, 2015·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Rahul Sharma of Micromax on the greatest battle of his life

The co-founder shares the high points of his entrepreneurial journey and his next big, hairy, audacious bet.

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Mar 16, 2015·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.

Rajesh Srivastava

Corporate Veteran, Thought Leader | Educator & Bestselling Author

Mar 16, 2015·Leadership & Organisation

Sadhguru and Ram Charan on Innovation, Creativity, and Spirituality

Prof Ram Charan decodes Steve Jobs' legacy at Apple

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Mar 16, 2015·Leadership & Organisation

Redefining Success, Information Overload and Empowering Gen Y

As organisations get more and more younger, Ram Charan focuses on how CEOs will need to change the way they lead.

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel

Mar 16, 2015·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

Lessons from Vertex Pharma: Will we be able to develop breakthrough drugs?

Indian firms find it hard to inculcate radical innovation into their DNA. Perhaps they could draw inspiration from the experiences of US based pharmaceutical firm Vertex.

Rishikesha T Krishnan

Former Director, IIMB | Professor of Strategy

Mar 16, 2015·Leadership & Organisation

The search for higher purpose

Indrajit Gupta

Co-founder and Director | Founding Fuel