Always be selling is the mantra for the entreprenurs. Enterprenurs must have or acquire skills to sell very early on because entreprenurship is all…

David Jackson (name changed to protect the guilty) was the reason I became an entreprenur in 1982. David worked me for a couple of…

This is a direct consequence of India’s labor laws. Why would I hire labor when I can substitute it with capital and not have…

Ishan Nadkarni is a young entrepreneur from Bombay. He is also a fellow IITB graduate. Ishan stopped by other day at our office in…

Streamlining to run efficiently the state run enterprises is an oxymoronic idea. It is just not possible. Incentives are just not there, no body…

My older brother Tony has a treasure trove of family memorabalia. This is a photo of mine he recently shared. It was taken at…

Startup India is a flagship initiative of the Modi Sarkar. It should give confidence that government is serious about this. But I am afraid…

With WeWork, UBER and Lyft fiascos, people are starting to wonder what is going on. Here is my assessment… In the beginning, there were…

VC economics is very dire and requires a disciplined approach to provide satisfactory returns. The dirty little secret of the VC business is that…

Oral history recorded for the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.Incidentally, interviewer late Jeff Katz was my office mate at my second job…

It is interesting to see Tech Crunch article ( https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/24/paytm-1-billion/) that PayTM is raising a $1 billion in a new round funding. Tech Crunch article…

This presentation was done in 2008 for a conference at Kellogg and I later updated it in 2012 for a prsentation somewhere. Since then,…

My company Excelan went public on Feb 28, 1987, exactly 33 years ago today. Stock was priced at $12/share and closed at about 15…

We are coming back a full circle after this last cycle. Cash is a commodity was the mantra during dotcom cycle and we know…

Best time to do a start up is during the time of rapid change in the market. Novel Coronavirus is changing the world more rapidly than…