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Undoing the past: FM winks to give angels wings this Budget
The super rich may be sulking, the markets may be miffed and cigarette smokers may be muttering under their breath, but there are some segments which would be pretty satisfied with what Finance...
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Four startups graduate from VentureNursery’s second accelerator program
The second batch of startups graduated from startup accelerator VentureNursery’s accelerator program on April 6, at the NSE Boardroom, BKC, in suburban Mumbai. The startups began with the 11 week...
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How change affects the workplace
Years ago, I was asked to lead the India operations of an MNC company as its managing director. The company was a global leader, but modestly sized in India. Our team was small, young and cohesive and...
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Google kickstarts a venture vision with 10,000 Startups
It is not every day that a tech top gun like Google’s Eric Schmidt visits India. On a whirlwind tour of Asia last month, Schmidt made a stop in India and announced the ‘10,000 Startups’ initiative in...
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The need for a business purpose
Why do most businesses grow painfully slow while others maintain a healthy pace during their evolution? Why do some never get past the early success stage and get caught in a long time warp, while...
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The people challenge: Ravi Kiran
Recently I met a smart, hard-working and proud engineering entrepreneur from Vadodara in Gujarat, who has carefully built a Rs. 30 crore business over 20-odd years, in a competitive industry. His...
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Follow the right processes to turn your SME into a big business: Ravi Kiran
In writer director Gauri Shinde’s 2012 movie English Vinglish, Sridevi’s character Shashi Godbole plays a second and powerful role besides being an affectionate and hard-working home maker—that of...
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The three crucial P’s for your business in the growth stage: purpose, people,...
When you forget to take your toothbrush to your hotel room, who do you call instinctively? If you are like most guests, you would call the reception. It’s odd, since most guests know that in-room...
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Click for freebies
While India’s consumption story has been on an overdrive, product life cycles have become shorter and the Indian consumer’s aspirations global in nature. The truth is that innovation is beating brand...
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Focusing on the four growth areas: Ravi Kiran
In earlier columns, I introduced an idea called the software of business, made up of two drivers, three building blocks and four focus areas. No business can escape these nine elements ever in its...
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How do you make decisions?
The other day I had a very interesting and long conversation with Vishal Agarwal (name changed on request) in Indore. Barely 34, Vishal joined his family business quite early when the business was...
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Is your business fragile or agile?: Ravi Kiran
A Harvard Business School study showed some time ago that over 80 percent of the reasons revenue growth may stall in a company are internal and within management control. An intuitive belief in this...
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Ventures like Mettl, Interview Master and Camplace are making recruitment easy
Though acknowledged as a critical function of any company, human resource (HR) has seldom got its due in comparison to other managerial functions like marketing and finance. However, with people...
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What do you do when you don’t know what to do?: Ravi Kiran
Every once in a while in business you will face a new and surprising situation. If you are like most business leaders, your first response would be to dig into your past and check if you have ever...
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Hatcheries: The surge of accelerators
If we used a pyrometer to measure the evolution of the Indian startup ecosystem, it probably would have cracked by now. At a macro level, the entrepreneurial landscape is evolving rapidly—startup...
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‘Have exhibitions evolved to keep pace with our changed context today?’: Ravi...
Sometime last year, I met Amit, a smart businessman from Vadodara who has built a successful light engineering company, supplying innovative parts made out of plastic composites to a variety of...
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RankJunction helps with real time training
Not only has technology simplified our lives, but it has levelled the playing field too. For example, nothing is undemocratic anymore if you’re appearing for competitive examinations, as long as you...
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How delighted are your customers?: Ravi Kiran
Marketing, if you ask executives in some of the most well-known companies in the world, is coming back full circle. The commoditization of the many categories is so complete, the customers are so...
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Are you ready to empower your front line?
Last week, on a business trip to Ahmedabad, while waiting for my dinner to be served at a restaurant, I made a purchase of some household items at the home essentials counter. The bill came to around...
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