Category: Entrepreneurship
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Beyond the Margin: Redirecting Asia’s Capitalism
On August 24, 2011 Avantage Ventures released a report titled ‘Beyond the Margin: Redirecting Asia’s Capitalism’, the first to analyse the Asian social finance market. I had the opportunity share some of my insight thoughts with the Avantage Ventures staff during the preparation of this report. The report has, for the first time, made an attempt…
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Early stage investment in a start-up
A bunch of articles that talk about seed stage/pre-VC stage investments in startups. The debate is primarily between whether to do a convertible debt or to do a preferred equity. There are arguments both for and against each side. The basic premise: convertible debt delays the conversation on valuation to the next round. It gives…
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Human Resource: Could be a complete drain on resources
One out of the three first employees that I recruited, turned out to be a rogue! He forged reimbursement bills, made issues about the work that he was supposed to do, tried to “poison” other team members. The fact that we are start-up, complicated things a bit more for us. I was ready to take…
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Niche in life
Wrote this sometime back for my friends but thought I should put it on the blog. When I was a kid, I was not very good at games….frankly speaking, I never had the opportunity to play many games. The only game that I ever played was football. In fact, childhood Bengal was a football academy.…
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No plan survives first touch with customers
The last word on startup success. Why writing business plans is NOT done first. It is something different that needs to be developed first and that is – a business model. A summary of the lessons learned is given below (copied from the original blog of Steve Blank HERE): A startup is an organization formed…
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10 questions you should always ask once a month
Though the original blog article is meant for entrepreneurs (read here), I believe that a few of the questions would apply to you if you are a manager as well. (Of course, only IF your organisation gives you the liberty to take decisions and implement initiatives. 🙂 ) I have split it up into two…
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