Only one in fifty people in general population succeeds as an entrepreneur. Not very good odds, I must say. No wonder parents are not in favor of it.…
I took Ben and Raj-Ann to NYC during the Thanksgiving of 1992. We did the town but the highlight was going to the top of the World Trade…
This presentation was done in 2008 for a conference at Kellogg and I later updated it in 2012 for a prsentation somewhere. Since then, image of India is…
Only one in fifty people in general population succeeds as an entrepreneur. Not very good odds, I must say. No wonder parents are not in favor of it. But if you take the first step of leaving your job and sustaing your dream for about a year, your…
I am often asked if experience is helpful? Simple answer is yes. I have worked with thousands of entreprenurs. I have been directly involved in almost 200 startup. But I am still surprized from time to time. I can never tell who is going to succeed but I…
John Bosch was a board member at Excelan. He was rough and gruff character but he was very matter of fact in his approach. After I started to get my sea legs as the CEO and started to feel good about things, I got very excited about business…
Customer satisfaction/customer success functions are fairly common now. Novell had a customer satisfaction unit (separate from customer service) in the CEO’s office back in 1989 when Excelan first merged with Novell. Ray Noorda, Novell CEO, was obsessed with the customer satisfaction. I, as a part of the my…
This plaque was displayed widely at Excelan.
I hate a YAFO (yet another fricking opportunity). Yafos are distractions and wasteful. I am a strong believer in DAFTW (doing a few things well), rather than lots of things half-assed. I don’t like to dabble either. Either I am all in or I am out. For an…