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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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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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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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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

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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How to buy friends and influence people
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

How to buy friends and influence people

Ever wondered how some influential (and not-so-influential) people and companies get popular on social media for no apparent reason? In a discreet operation, we investigate how.

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel

Why it makes sense to outsource your life
·Leadership & Organisation

Why it makes sense to outsource your life

There is only so much you can accomplish on any given day. So why not outsource the more mundane tasks? It's cheap, efficient and frees you up to do everything else

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel