In my limited learning, building an organization has three levers. Company: The first and foremost is the company itself. It is the founders, team, and principles with which the company exists. This lever defines or provides oxygen to the company. In most occasions, the company make or break because of it. Customers: Build your company …
Category Archives: startups
community
We think about achieving something in life. Success depends on many factors apart from our hard work. Community is core. It’s the people around us in our lives who inspire us, open doors for us. We need to be a giver and open doors for others too. That is how we grow the tribe. It …
Long game
Building a startup is like raising a child if your fundamentals are to leave a legacy. Building a company requires an honest culture and a people-first approach. As a founder, this should be the most important virtue. Things take time, and building slow and steady cement utmost love, care, and pain. It is towards solving …
goal
Running a startup is painful. Although some founders have turned it into get rich quick scheme. With funding winter, these companies and founders are coming into the lights of scrutiny. I am sure this is just the beginning, and we will see many more names coming out. India’s growth story. The youngest English-speaking population has …
responsibility
As a founder, one virtue you should seek from early team members is their responsibility-taking capacity.A founder should not worry about the quality and delivery timelines.They should be confident that team members will do it and deliver their best. Any other pedigree and show-off should not be the priority in early hires. Otherwise, the founder …
Happiness
Happiness is new corporate trash positioned like a carrot to employees by human resources. Giving food coupons or movie tickets is not happiness. Neither are weekly alcohol galas post-work. Happiness is mental well-being. That can happen with good company culture. An environment with zero toxicity. A place where employees could question senior authority. That will …
Believe and build
I keep asking founders who come to pitch for intros and funding why they are building this. On a few occasions, people walk away being angry. It comes as a rude shock to them. Our media and glorification surrounding startups have made entrepreneurship some fashion parade. As a result, many of us are not in …
uncertainty
Working with a team means having multiple minds. It’s an assembly line. The complete product requires working like an orchestra. That means everyone has to take responsibility and ownership. A leader’s responsibility determines predictability and quality deliverable in a defined time. It comes with experience and deploying capable and efficient resources in the mission. A …
top
Change starts from the top. Monkey see, monkey do. If the leader is complacent and not paranoid, how do we expect the team to deliver? Can you change the default overnight? Human beings’ obstacle is fighting with themselves and bringing change within. Everyday PR stories and startup news reporting speak of founders announcing about conserving …
entrepreneurship
I see people preaching about becoming an entrepreneur and breaking into entrepreneurship. I have my aversion to these sales pitches or evangelism. Entrepreneurship is not clearing an engineering entrance or a medical entrance exam where you read a syllabus and jump in to qualify. Entrepreneurship is not a 9 to 5 job with a steady …