Kauffman Foundation has started a NEW entrepreneurship website. http://entrepreneurship.org/ and resources center http://www.entrepreneurship.org/ResourcesCenter/ The website tells “In the midst of our worst financial crisis in decades, entrepreneurs will once again lead the economic recovery.” Actually, innovation and entrepreneurship (in business, social, political and military areas) are the reasons what makes USA and UK different from […]
Starting Up in a Downturn
Downturn? I have only realized it much later after turning entrepreneur in December 2008. Nothing seems to have changed. March is busy as usual for clients when one rationalizes that business would start flowing in from April! Clients on the other hand are as difficult to make part with money beyond the idea honeymoon as […]
Free Strategy Roundtables For Entrepreneurs
I am doing some Free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs to discuss your business issues with me. During this 60-minute session, entrepreneurs are invited to pitch me their ideas in a 3-minute presentation. I will review the material in real-time and provide feedback on each pitch, as well as address specific strategy questions from the […]
Feedback for Forbes Column
Friends, I am doing a series on Entrepreneurship in India for Forbes, and would like to hear your thoughts. Would you please comment at my site and leave your name/affiliation on the site, so that I can use some of your comments in the articles, and duly attribute them? The first of these pieces is […]
Global Entrepreneurship week 17-23Nov2008
Global Entrepreneurship week 17-23 November 2008 http://www.kauffman.org/entrepreneurship/international-celebration-of-entrepreneurship.aspx and https://genglobal.org/ 0
Mobile Development Report
I recently came across this report titled “The Mobile Development Report“, published by CKS on a research commissioned by Nokia for developmental use of mobile networks in emerging economies. The report focuses on social transformations around a new technology and its adoption. The report beautifully documents lives and ways Indians in tier 2 cities and […]
A good list of social entrepreneurship resources
To all who are interested in social entrepreneurship A good list of social entrepreneurship resources See their fellows (only US based), but for the ideas that can be implemented anywhere in the world if relevant at http://www.draperrichardsfoundation.org/fellows/index.html ->There are too many things possible in social entrepreneurship in India and worldwide. 0
Meeting Online this Saturday [Today] @ 3PM
Compared to how things were a few years back, the Startup Community has come together in such a fabulous way. We have OpenCoffee Club meets, Startup Lunches, Startup Saturdays, Mobile Mondays, Barcamps, Ideacamps etc, etc, and the plethora of other activities that organizations such as TiE, NEN, NASSCOM, etc are providing to benefit this same […]
Pradeep Khosla: The Entrepreneurial Dean of Carnegie Mellon University
How does Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a renowned research US university foster research and a spirit of innovation among its students and faculty? How does CMU do tech transfer? What is unique about the US university system that helps in creating startups and companies? Is there something that India can learn from the US University […]
Bootstrap Yourself!
My new Forbes column Bootstrap Yourself highlights Silicon Valley’s hottest new trend, Bootstrapping. Indian entrepreneurs, you need to embrace this trend, given that the early stage venture capital industry doesn’t quite have its act together yet. Great bootstrapping case studies I have covered are Sridhar Vembu, Frank Levinson and Jerry Rawls, Cree Lawson, and Beatrice […]
The Pyramid is actually a Lollipop.
Everyone, and Just about anyone with a background in Economics and can understand the market will tell you that a healthy market is supposed to be somewhat close to what C.K.Prahalad defined and popularized as – atleast here in India – a Pyramid. But is our economy, atleast when it comes to the Industrial sector […]
Early Stage Technology Entrepreneurship and Incubators in India
My first experience of technology entrepreneurship in India was in 1994 while I was still a grad student at MIT. The most vivid memory I have of that experience is that it took me 6 months to get a phone line. It was before wireless. It was, most certainly, before venture capital in India. Things […]