Entrepreneurship is not only about getting that “great” idea

by Ashvini Kumar Saxena · 5 comments

in Business

Entrepreneurship is often considered synonymous to unlocking a great idea and then making money off it. Unfortunately this definition also mean that a lot of people who are good at certain skills but do not get that “brilliant idea” stay away from becoming an entrepreneur. To me this is a wrong reading of the concept. [...]

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Turning away genuine customers while avoiding free loaders

by Ashvini Kumar Saxena · 7 comments

in Business,My Personal Thoughts

An interesting story about people who try things offline and then buy online has been published here. It seems that offline stores bear the brunt of staff costs, when staff help customers make choices about buying. Many times , the supposed buyer just walks off after testing the product and later buys the same thing [...]

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Putting yourself above your business

May 1, 2013

Companies are like a group of people lead by a person who is often called as CEO of the company. In a small business, the owner often does most of the work, right from a lower level employee to the highest level executive. In other words, a small business owner is the lifeline of his [...]

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Teaching Entrepreneurship in colleges to beat job blues

April 23, 2013

A majority of colleges at least in my country are built on principle of preparing people for jobs. Nothing wrong with that. However it often becomes the corner stone of why one would join a college. The college courses are often old, unchanged and uninspiring. They are meant to provide students as much knowledge as [...]

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Challenging yourself

April 16, 2013

If you play guitar for fun , you would feel that sometimes you just want to throw it away. Initially when you pick up the guitar, all you want to do is learn a few songs that you have been listening to all your life. You probably want to make an impression on people how [...]

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Real entrepreneurship is about making an impact

April 9, 2013

Once I played an April fools prank on my Facebook friends. I told them that I had won a high worth contract because of my blog. I have many blogger friends and no one even took the bait. As a result the prank fell flat. The reason for pessimism was obvious. Not many bloggers make [...]

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Avoiding “Yes Men”

April 2, 2013

Surrounding yourself with Yes man is the worst thing a leader could do. The glorification starts when the group that he or she is in becomes an echo chamber. A leader is then surrounded by people who agree to whatever he or she say. Such a leader risks getting the wrong advice. When one is [...]

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Things that are more important than advertising

March 26, 2013

It often happens that a different runs of a TV series is launched on two different channels. One channel breaks the serial into many parts, inserts many ads and then launches it. Another TV channel put in a 20 second break, almost good enough to get popcorn and be back in time. As it happens [...]

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Do you think before spending on things you enjoy?

March 21, 2013

One of my friends was in dilemma. He wanted to get into a related field. He needed to learn new skills and to do things better. He planned an investment of about $3000, on buying a really high tech computer. The problem was, that he was not sure , if the investment was worth it. [...]

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Customer and vendor relationship is like a marriage, needs trust and commitment from both

March 19, 2013

Recently a software I developed, did not work at all on a new customer’s website. It was because  of the open source nature of the system where the ecosystem is varying and complex unlike the closed, proprietary ecosystems. In a closed system, things are more controlled and thus there are fewer problem with software standards. [...]

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