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May the fastest sperm win
·Leadership & Organisation

May the fastest sperm win

16 kms/hour. That is the minimum speed entrepreneurs and CEOs ought to be able to run at to stay on top

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Dr. Rajat Chauhan

Dr. Rajat Chauhan

Founder, Back2Fitness

Confessions of a recovering junkie
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery

Confessions of a recovering junkie

The pleasure centres that tickle Internet junkies and drug addicts are the same - we know this because of recent advances in the neurosciences

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Charles Assisi

Charles Assisi

Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel

How to get your sales team to build relationships
·Business & Strategy

How to get your sales team to build relationships

It makes better business sense to serve a customer over the lifetime of the relationship rather than merely sell. A simple way to make that happen is by changing how you incentivise your salespersons

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The new mantra of consultative selling
·Business & Strategy

The new mantra of consultative selling

Smart companies aren't hiring salespeople anymore. They're investing, with good reason, in a different breed altogether.

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How to go global in a jiffy
·Business & Strategy

How to go global in a jiffy

It often took several years - and sometimes decades - for companies to spread their wings around the world. But now, the old globalisation model is set to change dramatically.

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Who wants to be CEO?
·Leadership & Organisation

Who wants to be CEO?

If you want to be CEO, stop thinking of yourself as a paid professional. Think of yourself as the owner

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Haresh Chawla

Haresh Chawla

Investor, Entrepreneur

The New Traditionals
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation

The New Traditionals

Family managed businesses run the risk of being run over by their more contemporary counterparts. If they adhere to some ground rules though, they can come up trumps.

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Harsh Vardhan

Harsh Vardhan

Strategy Consultant

What makes Alibaba tick
·Business & Strategy

What makes Alibaba tick

Jack Ma who created Alibaba, China's biggest online marketplace is a hero in the country. And with good reason at that.

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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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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