One should move out and talk and talk and talk and talk ‘shamelessly’ all the time. You will get to know the real world… you will get to know the feedback .. you will get to know what customers are looking for .. real issues.
As a founder you should better not stay in office.
Sidharth Deswal who works at Wingify, the makers of Visual Website Optimizer, takes a look at Savita Bhabhi- The Movie’s website and suggests tweaks.
It’s a good news if you are looking for a product manager, who at the end of his experience don’t want to say I had spec out the whole product but who will say I helped specing out the whole product helping company to achieve have what we have right now in reality.
The most important lesson we learnt: ‘you need to think like an investor’.
To think like an investor; ask yourself this question: What about this business excites me and does this solve a real problem?
When you get a text/SMS, where does it go? Do you maintain two separate contacts list? Many mobile vendors don’t provide two separate contacts databases. When you want to call a friend also a business partner, which side will you flip?
The first content marketing campaign was executed in 1895 by John Deere. The Furrow, a custom publication was created by John Deere to educate farmers on how to become more profitable. It is still in circulation today reaching 1.5 million readers in 40 countries.
We cannot expect India to produce a huge army of young home grown entrepreneurs when we don’t introduce this concept to them early on. It’s like expecting a country to have successful scientists or doctors without introducing science in schools.
Startup and large corporates are two ends of the spectrum and various organizations may fall somewhere between in that continuum. As you chart your career and consider choices across, you may want to keep some of this in mind.
When due to a twist of fate, I chose not to sit in the placements for my start-up and go full-time with it, I looked out for all those co-entrepreneurs and their ventures for support.
We were pushed to be bold enough to say NO to an unprofitable businesses no matter how popular the brand (you know how tough this can be). We were pushed to travel in Mumbai locals when the Olas and the Merus seduced us with their air conditioning
