·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The Rahul Yadav Story You’ve Never Heard Before
An insider's account of what went wrong with a brilliant 20-something IIT dropout’s entrepreneurial journey
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
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·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Saving Private Flipkart
Flipkart is in the middle of a crisis of its own making—stalled growth compounded by management churn and the imminent possibility that it will cede the top slot to Amazon. But it’s not too late to change its strategy.
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The fault in our startups
Internet startups are cloning business models from the West, without much thought on how to Make in India
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Flippin’ over backwards
Less than six months after their momentous deal with Walmart, both co-founders Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are out of Flipkart. It is a sad commentary on the hubris and the immaturity that’s gripped India’s high-flying tech entrepreneurs
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The Contrarian
Sridhar Vembu built Zoho by questioning the conventional wisdom. For the longest time, no one took much notice. But now people are curious about what makes him—and Zoho—tick
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
A day in the life of India
For all the hyperbole that exists around the idea of India, step into the real India, and all notions implode. Ours is a nation of young people with no idea of what to do with them
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Work, Careers & Personal Mastery
Gigerenzer’s simple rules
Why simple rules of thumb often outperform complex models
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N S Ramnath
Senior Editor, Founding Fuel
·Economy, Policy & Society
Making sense of the New Capitalists
Your smartphone is the gateway for platform businesses to drive their hooks deep into your psyche and pockets, edge out traditional businesses, and reset markets. In doing so, they are becoming monopolies, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. What is fair play in this new world?
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
How India’s digital economy can rediscover its mojo
The recent crisis of confidence brought by the unicorn meltdowns isn't for real. India’s digital economy is actually poised for a bright future. Just that we need a new lens to look at the real opportunities
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The narrow exit road for India's billion-dollar start-ups
For e-commerce poster boys Flipkart and Snapdeal, their valuations sound unsustainable; IPO looks neither feasible nor sensible; and the Chinese may be the only ones with money and intent to invest further
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
Your Start-up Is Dying
Because you fail to focus on converting visitors to heavy users
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur
·Business & Strategy
Gautam Adani’s midnight raid at NDTV—a developing story
The aggressive billionaire’s dramatic attempt to take over one of the country’s best known media firms has set the cat among the pigeons. Will Prannoy and Radhika Roy stand their ground? Here are the possible scenarios. (This is a developing story and we are updating it as things unfold. The latest update was on 31 August, 2022)
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
The ridiculous “Principles” of Ray Dalio
If money be the only metric to measure the worth of a man, Ray Dalio is a hugely successful creature and his “Principles” are worth emulating. But the unexamined life is not worth living or emulating either
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Charles Assisi
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Leadership & Organisation
Why the worst may not be over for Chanda Kochhar
The inside story of how Chanda Kochhar let hubris and greed implode her trail-blazing career at ICICI Bank
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Indrajit Gupta
Co-founder and Director, Founding Fuel
·Entrepreneurship, Startups & Innovation
The Mahabharata of Indian internet unicorns
The likes of Flipkart and Snapdeal now resemble the brave Abhimanyu. They’ve gotten into the Chakravyuha. Will they emerge unscathed?
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Haresh Chawla
Investor, Entrepreneur