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Guest post by Ashish Sinha

First of all, thanks to Arun for giving me an opportunity to reach out to smart readers of trak.in. I run Pluggd.in, and we are organizing a startup event called UnPluggd that is focused on entrepreneurs.

By now, you must have heard of these statements (from startups / VCs / media / [...]

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What inspires a Startup?

by rabigupta

Before I answer this question, I should answer another question first- What inspired me to write this post? The other day I was having a discussion with my Father when I subconsciously asked him about ‘the type of Businessmen’ in this world. I had a doubt about Businesses and their motives when I asked him [...]

9 comments February 24, 2010 Continue Reading →

Entrepreneurs are born or made?

by Sandy
nature_nurture

We know that a good majority of trak.in readers is made up of entrepreneurs and wannabe entrepreneurs. Recently we had a guest post that argued that an MBA degree doe snot make an entrepreneur and earlier we had Arun reporting on the anatomy of an entrepreneur and what ar eth likely characteristic of an entrepreneur.

Today, [...]

1 comment December 10, 2009 Continue Reading →

A MBA Degree Does NOT Teach Entrepreneurship

by guest
entrepreneur-success-journey[1]

Well, to talk about education being a pre-requisite for entrepreneurship we have enough real world examples that shout out loud that it aren’t. The likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and the list can go and on. But, lets face it – Entrepreneurship has become the buzz word ever since the Dot Com [...]

11 comments December 8, 2009 Continue Reading →

SFO helping Bangalore to be the next valley ?

by Ankit Agarwal
siliconvalley.jpg

Bangalore, the next Silicon Valley? Now, the community has always been divided on this one. With its early mover advantage and it being home to probably the highest technology companies in India , some say Bangalore is ‘the’ contender to become the next Silicon Valley. A certain section of the community is very clear that [...]

6 comments December 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

The synergy between Bay Area and India: what the future holds

by Sandy
bayarea

Bay Area council economic institute has just released a 2962 pages long ‘Global Reach’ report on ‘Emerging Ties Between the San Francisco Bay Area and India’ and they have also made available a 14 page extract of executive summary [PDF] and both are available for free downloads from their site. [...]

1 comment November 25, 2009 Continue Reading →

Startups are like “2012″!

by rabigupta
2012_large

I don’t know how many of you have watched the Movie “2012”, but I watched it 2 times and found it an extremely interesting one! It’s not just about the story, the way a person can relate to Movie is also appreciative. But somehow I thought that the movie teaches many lessons, especially from an [...]

2 comments November 21, 2009 Continue Reading →

When will India have its own ‘Expert Labs’ ?

by Sandy
Anil Dash

Two days back, at the Web2.0 expo, a respected blogging pioneer and six-apart founder, Anil Dash announced to the world the launch of ‘Expert Labs’   – a not-for-profit technology incubator, that will focus on providing value to the US government and any start-ups that are focussing on government projects by focussing on cloud technologies. [...]

5 comments November 20, 2009 Continue Reading →

Brand India is on a roll – The West getting even more interested?

by Ankit Agarwal
Brand India

Amidst all the recession and the economic downturn hulla boo in recent times , one major positive has been the resurgence of India as a nation to reckon with. Not that India was not walking shoulder to shoulder (at least in some areas) with the global leaders, but the recent downturn made India stand out [...]

7 comments November 17, 2009 Continue Reading →

The Next Silicon Valley – Pune or Chennai or ?

by Arun Prabhudesai
siliconvalley

I am part of the crowd that believes that Bengaluroo is not the silicon valley of India!

Bengaluru has many IT services companies and has probably reached a saturation level that its quite difficult for it to become a valley anymore. The service “culture” has set in and it is difficult to change that aspect of [...]

16 comments September 23, 2009 Continue Reading →

Age of Innovation

by Arun Prabhudesai
Human Centered Design- An Introduction-IDEO

Kjell Nordstrom & Jonas Ridderstrale in their book Funky business mentioned " The ’surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up with similar ideas, producing similar things, with similar prices & similar quality." Now, Here’s a quick exercise, on your next trip to the [...]

4 comments September 14, 2009 Continue Reading →

Self Employment: Positive Resultant of Global Downturn

by Arun Prabhudesai
Self Employment

Recent volatility in Global Market did pose a question on the credibility of outsourcing market; hundreds of highly trained and hard working professionals recruited from India’s best colleges/universities were laid off to save the multi billion dollar companies from vanishing. These moves not just made consideration of uncertainty in one’s career [...]

0 comments August 18, 2009 Continue Reading →

Startup Saturday: Indian Startups, Funding, entrepreneurship & more

by Arun Prabhudesai

Startup Saturday is our Weekly Digest that provides latest buzz on Indian Startups & Entrepreneurship. Quikr gets Rs. 20 crore Funds Infusion from Omdiyar Network & Matrix partners  Quikr, One of the leading horizontal classifieds player in India recently announced Rs. 200 million second round [...]

0 comments August 1, 2009 Continue Reading →

Anatomy of an Entrepreneur

by Arun Prabhudesai
Typical Entrepreneur

Do you know what is the Family Background or Motivation of Typical Entrepreneur?

Here is your Typical Entrepreneur

  • He is from a middle-class or upper lower-class background, and very few come from backgrounds of extreme wealth or extreme poverty.
  • He is usually well educated, with only 5 percent or less having a bachelor’s degree.
  • He likely to be better educated than their parents were, with half his fathers and a third of their mothers having at least bachelors’ degrees.
  • He performed well in high school and in college, with the vast majority ranking average or above in their respective institutions.
  • He necessarily does not come from families of entrepreneurs; slightly more than half are the first in their families to launch businesses.
  • On average, he tends to be the middle child in a three-child household.
  • He is significantly more likely to be married and have children when they launch their first businesses.
  • He is far more likely to have worked for an employer for more than six years than to have quickly launched their own businesses.
  • His primary motivation for launching a business are to build wealth, to own his own company, and to capitalize on a business idea that he has.
6 comments July 31, 2009 Continue Reading →

The Indian Women CEO have arrived and how?

by Arun Prabhudesai
Indra Nooyi

Yes, The Era of Women CEO has arrived and from the looks of it, it is here to stay. Now, women have been there and done that at the positions that matter for quite sometime. But the last decade or so has seen a drastic change when it comes to the participation of Women at [...]

9 comments July 13, 2009 Continue Reading →
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