Dear readers, This is a nice article written by Rajat Gupta, former MD, McKinsey on “India needs more entrepreneurs”. A classic. Perhaps a little commercial on ISB but good reading: http://www.mckinsey.com/aboutus/mckinseynews/pressarchive/indiaentrenprenership.asp -Shiva Venkatraman 0
How do founders meet and decide to “DO A STARTUP”?
Hey readers, I am always bothered by one question in my mind: How do startup founders “form the initial team” ? For those of you who have read my startup culture report, comparing US, Japan and Indian startup cultures, we touched on some of that. However, I would be very keen on hearing some views […]
Startup Culture Report: Emailed to everyone who had asked for it
Hey readers, I have finally managed to get my hardware issues sorted out and emailed all of you who have requested the report. I am still a low-tech blogger; so I have asked Alok for help in posting this file somewhere on venturewoods. Please write to me individually about your thoughts. This was not a […]
Startup Culture Report: Delayed due to laptop crash
Folks, I got a good response of people who want my startup culture comparision report: US vs. Japan vs. India. Apologies for the delay in responding and posting it here/replying to your emails. My laptop crashed and I am dealing with IBM support to fix it. Hope to respond to all of you/post it on […]
Research Results: On cultural differences between teams in US, India a...
Hi everyone, I would like to thank all of those who participated in the first phase of my research by answering my survey on cultural differences between US, Japan & Indian startups. For those who participated in the survey and of course, for the general enthusiastic crowd on this blog, I would like to offer […]
Survey for India-based startups
Hi everyone, I am doing some research on cultural differences in startup organizations across India, Japan and the US. If you have been involved with a startup which was started in India, please take this survey. I really appreciate it. http://www.hubspot.com/HubSpotSurvey/TakeSurvey.asp?SurveyID=3JMn73124p63G If you were involved with a startup in the US, you can help me […]
DealFlow in India: What does it look like ?
Hi everyone, I am new to this blog. For a quick intro, I am a student pursuing the Sloan Fellows program in Innovation and Global Leadership at MIT (http://mitsloan.mit.edu/fellows) and was most recently in a startup called AirTight Networks (http://www.airtightnetworks.net), venture-backed, HQ-ed in Mtn Vw, CA and incubated entirely from India, where I ran Asia-Pac […]