It can get tough for new entrepreneurs to manage expectations of family and build a business at the same time. It is important to be aware of these influences before starting a business. This has been an area of learning for us.
Being a Startup Dad : Make Your Family Part of your Startup Team [Lalit Bhise, Mobisy Founder]
Being a startup dad isn’t easy. You slog many hours and while you definitely try to keep family updated about the current status of your startup, the truth is that kids do not get it. They are as demanding and lovable as they are meant to be.
Being a Startup Dad : We do make it a point to get to the dinner table together [Sameer, Linger]
We do make it a point to get to the dinner table together.
We also try and do a few holidays every year as a family – and I make sure these aren’t “working vacations”.
Being a Startup Dad : Many days I have left him crying and went to work with a heavy heart [Girish, Freshdesk Founder]
Being a startup dad isn’t easy. You slog many hours and while you definitely try to keep family updated about the current status of your startup, the truth is that kids do not get it. They are as demanding and lovable as they are meant to be.
To Do or Not To Do: Mukund Mohan’s Productivity Tricks
Mukund Mohan, who heads the Microsoft Accelerator programme in India is highly productive. What is his trick? Find out in this interview.
Mr Tech Entrepreneur, Lets Cut the Crap and Build Companies to Last
Travel companies which do not care about travel, or travelers. E-commerce outfits which are so caught in scale that they forgot to ask fundamental questions about what type of retail they exactly were, and how the business for that works.
6 Entrepreneurial Lessons From Cleaning the Mountains [One Week One Job]
Guest article by Jubanashwa Mishra, a 28 year old from Orissa who is experimenting with a new job every week for 28 weeks in 28 states. When I first decided to embark on this journey of 28 jobs, across 28 states in 28 weeks, I hadn’t expected the overwhelming reception from the media as I…
Does Your Startup Suck at Publicity? [Media Lessons]
Sometimes the journalists aren’t looking in the right places and most of the times, startups aren’t meeting the right people or telling the right stories.
Nasscom to Setup 100 Seater Co-working Space & Startup Accelerator in Bangalore
Ravi Gururaj, the newly appointed Chairman of the Nasscom product council said it would be a co-working space where mentors, customers, angel investors, venture capitalists and other stakeholders will keep coming.
Parents are Hard to Please: Michael Dell
If I’d asked a lot of people, they would have told me it wouldn’t work and tried to persuade me otherwise, says Michael Dell. Entrepreneurs need to be a little bit crazy. At least in the eyes of the others.