We build relationships and end up as trustworthy companions. It all boils down to commitment with honesty and love. The same applies to businesses; you have to be committed to them and give your best with service and support. Giving up on you should not be an option, be it in business or companionship in …
Category Archives: startups
Layoffs
Layoffs are part and parcel of employment. It hurts and self-questions your capabilities, but in reality, it is more about organizational restructuring. In short, the organization mismanaged, and you had to pay the price of losing your job. You are still the same person working and earning for living. Don’t self-doubt your capabilities.
business
People, fundamentals, long-term thinking, and culture are recipes for a successful business. Modern-day companies’ DNA is on growth where all the fundamentals are flawed, and everything boils down to the next fundraising round. To achieve this, unnecessary hiring, product development, and lots of money get wasted. Founders, investors, and stakeholders are talking about revenue from …
podcast notes : X-Unicorn(7)
Last evening was listening to Karthik’s X-Unicorns podcast, where he interviewed Prashant, founder of EaseMyTrip. There are a few takeaways for me from the interview as a founder. EaseMyTrip is a bootstrapped ticket reservation platform run by Prashant and his two brothers. The company has been listed in India and is now a public limited. …
consistent
Being consistent is a unique virtue. Not many have it. A few who are gets lots of respect in their organization or society. One can trust you with a task and forget because of your past performance. The same applies to cricket or football. Every team has one or two players delivering one after another …
culture
I see startup websites throwing culture pages with smiling pictures of employees. An organization’s culture is more than the handbook or website placeholder. It’s everyday life and a journey. Also, it comes from the top leaders. A founder’s role is critical. It’s their action that gets cloned/copied or followed.
Sail
You have to be mad head to run your enterprise, the main reason being uncertainty. You are on a treadmill and a vicious cycle of things working and not working. Every other day in the founder’s journey is a challenge: customers leaving, employees leaving, or failing product timelines. Media only glorifies the founder’s life, unicorn …
lead
Leadership is not about telling the team what to do but working with them, hand in hand, and showing them the way. How do you expect a team to peak performance when a leader is in leisure and least bothered about the organization? How will your team perform when you are unavailable for them or …
move
Polaroid, Blockbuster, and Kodak have a few things in common: They are all bankrupt. They were all early innovators. They did not change with time and tune their business model. Companies and management get lazy and don’t see the future because they have a cash cow present. They don’t want to innovate or disrupt it. …
success disease
In Score takes care of itself, the author talks about success disease, our inward tendency to become complacent after a big win. Winning or losing is part and parcel of the game or sales cycle. If we over-celebrate or become arrogant after winning and change ourselves or how we see ourselves, it will affect us …