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Price for a Prospered India

Price for a Prospered India

In the last two to three years, if you dared to ask a middle-income group homemaker about the topmost concerns on her mind, the immediate …

Call of the Wild

Call of the Wild

Recently, I traveled to a dense wildlife sanctuary in central India to have a look at resident and migratory birds. As a coincidence, I had …

Taken Over

Taken Over

Earlier this week, the Indian financial regulator SEBI issued its new takeover guidelines for public opinion. These regulations were last issued some 14 years back …

Hungry Kya?

Hungry Kya?

If you heard Pranab Mukherjee, the 70-plus Finance Minister of India say “My appetite is infinite and my greed is even higher,” at the Annual …

More of Less or Less of More?

More of Less or Less of More?

When meeting with startups, one often hears innocuous questions or observations. The interesting part is, the dilemmas entrepreneurs share are common across regions and geographies, …

The Outspiration Theory

The Outspiration Theory

Just the other day, I was watching one of the 20:20 cricket matches with my pre-teen son. The batting side had The Wall on the …

Customer or Kasht(se)mar?

Customer or Kasht(se)mar?

Having a hard time holding on to customers? Use ‘soft differentiation’ to your advantage.
Be it at management institutes or B-schools, the first key learning students …

To Err is He-Man

To Err is He-Man

While we are all familiar with the phrase ‘to err is human and to forgive divine’, it has more serious dimensions in the context of …

Thanklessly Yours

Thanklessly Yours

Often, budding entrepreneurs reach out to multiple veterans in their respective fields of management, marketing, entrepreneurship, finance, strategy, technology, etc. It could be either through …

India: The Future of Entrepreneurship

India: The Future of Entrepreneurship

AS the dust in the global financial and capital markets is settling down, India is emerging as the next big center for entrepreneurship. In fact, …