Entrepreneurship

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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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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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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Is exiting a business on your mind? Plan for it now

February 26, 2013

My bank from last many years decided to drop many customers(including me) for reasons that are not known. Probably they are winding operations or letting go of unprofitable customers. Recently a TV channel provider decided to reduce the number of services they offered to their former premium customers. It appears strange that in the mad rush [...]

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How to be part of a community without being judged?

February 5, 2013

When you join a new group online and/or  offline, what is the first thing you do? No you don’t start telling about yourself, unless someone asks you. You sit around and listen to what others are saying. Why ? Because probably they were there before you. Because you are barely aware of the rules of [...]

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Large companies need to encourage entrepreneurship, here is why

January 21, 2013

Large companies except a few are rarely known as entrepreneurial streak. The comfort of a huge market share, combined with strong balance sheet and dependency of customers often make large companies indifferent to idea of entrepreneurship. Here are a few reasons why Hierarchical mind-set  of management Preference towards status quo Top heavy management Controlling style [...]

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Building trust initially and then selling a little later

January 15, 2013

I have entered a stage where I have launched my first commercial product online. It is a simple plugin that lets one share their content on internet. Like any other entrepreneur , everything that is related to plugin, design, coding, testing and now marketing has been done by yours truly. The plugin was conceived from [...]

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Competing by switching to a new market

January 2, 2013

A big problem that a new comer faces in business is as follows . “Almost every idea that I get is already taken up by someone else” or “During research I found that not only my idea is taken but the also the business has implemented the idea has already acquired significant market”. Often the [...]

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