Excited to share that have joined TICE (https://www.tice.news) as Chief Mentor. I believe at this point of time in my career/life this role is apt and provides me an opportunity to explore my passion. This new hybrid consultant role gives me a flexibility of spending time with my parents in …
Rarer than talent or work ethic, the poet John Keats wrote, is the ability to step into and push through doubts and uncertainties. In 1817, Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a …
With an idea, In they walk To run their startup, In they walk College campus auditorium, hotel ball room, In they walk Suited & Booted, In the Guru walks Sometimes in casual attire, The Cool Dude walks Believing in their propaganda, In they all walk. 60% of them never did …
Startups though are here to make a better working world, sometimes get entangled in the same age old organisation nomenclatures & structures. Persons who found or start a Startup are called Founders, Entrepreneurs. We have evolved from calling businesses, ventures to Startups. We have evolved from calling them businessmen, industrialists …
Entrepreneurship is like The Bungy Jump Entrepreneurship is, To trump, Though trying to do it, Many Get stump, Its so much like, the Bungy Jump. Everyone talks about it, Most of them want to do it, Many make plans to do it. Some reach destination to jump, Once there, they …
30+ Startups REFRRed in this Poem. Lets see if you get the Names. Reply If you get Startup names. The first 5 people replying with more than 25+ names win a surprise gift. Lets see how much you know your fellow iStart Startups. To add Freshness in my experience cart, To …
My Bet is on Jaipur as the city which will emerge as Best of the Rest (non Metros of India). In couple of years, Jaipur will be rightful alternative to Metros as place for entrepreneurship & employment in India. Here I talk with Hire Tale about my personal & professional experience …
Read: Birth of Startup Mentor (Part I). Before reading this Blog. Thank you again DoIT&C officials for giving an opportunity to be an iStart Mentor. It was an evolution for me & made me define what a Mentor should be or can be. It was a professional rebirth for me. Mentor …
Starting up is Easy, It keeps you Busy. Difficult is the building part, Everyone is tearing you apart. Friends & Family put you in fear, Vendors’ Employees’ payment in arrear. Plenty of expert mentors around, Taking you on Merry Go round. Investors’ with so much to say, Not parting with …
About 9 months back was appointed as Dedicated Startup Mentor by Government of Rajasthan. Prior was Consultant to DoIT&C, Rajasthan Government for implementation of Startup policy & program . The responsibility of Mentoring was added to our scope by the Officers-In-Charge (OIC’s). For my appointment, I give credit to OICs …
Profile Title across (specially on Linkedin) is a ludicrous effort by professionals to Brand oneself & even Brag about oneself. Linkedin is flooded with professionals using magnanimous & swanky titles. These titles are endeavors in blowing their own trumpet, attempting a strategy to gloat & seek attention. This in my view is …
I have mentored Founders who have come to me to discuss about their Startups Present, Past & Future. Instead I suggested them an approach which is to discuss Now, Next & Beyond. Now: Solve the current issues at hand, Do things today, Lets do what we can do NOW. Next: What’s …
A poem I wrote on a Founders’ Life. I am an Entrepreneur, Am a Founder. Have a Start up, I say with Face Up. I am ready, To Feel up, fake up, fart up. I will Fxxx up, Flip up. I want To Fund up, Find up, I will Fill up, Flow up. Some day near, I shall have my Fate up. …
Startup Mentors are a thriving breed & flashy class of new professional field. There are plenty Mentors now in the Indian Startup ecosystem. This Mentor Class emergence is a recent phenomenon & correlated with rise of Startups in India. What are the drivers for this Mentor Boom? Government Startup policy …
If you have read some of my posts earlier on Mentoring, then you would know how I felt about “Becoming a Mentor” based on what I have seen. Hence before our team took upon the role of Mentoring. I put in thoughts on 3 things to distinguish & provide value. …
Today we are here, In Between somewhere. And Tomorrow anywhere, We are always Better Together. To build a cohesive Startup community in Rajasthan all founders have to work together. To have more Peer to Peer Entrepreneurs & Founders interactions. To evangelize the above, we introduce a “Better Together Tuesday” an one hour session to be …
Found “meaning” in my life by Turning ideas into scalable Startups fostering employment & benefits to customers using my Startups’ products/services/solutions. Found “purpose” in my life to assist fellow Entrepreneurs & Startups in turning their ideas into scalable ventures.
#BikanerDigifest the drive is on. Get ready for the ride. Code,Hack,Create at #BikanerDigifest. Time to Design,Print, Post and Spread. I was super excited for my first mega Government organized, sponsored event, festival. Bikaner Digifest Start attraction Cricketer R.P.Singh. I was his designated driver …
When working for yourself, you have seen enough ZEROES in your bank. Then giving service to others and make HEROES is your new purpose. This was told to me by someone sitting next to me in business class on an International flight. This statement had a profound impact on me. …
