On the slow cost of co-founder misalignment, and where to find someone who has actually been there. You started this company together. You stayed up until 2am together. You defended each other in rooms where nobody believed in the idea yet. And now you cannot agree on anything. Not on the product roadmap. Not on … Read more
Guest Post By Janhvi Pradhan Deshmukh, Partner, Legasis Partners, Advocates and Solicitors, BKC, Mumbai India’s creator economy runs on reels and reels, more often than not, run on music. For years, brands, influencers, fitness trainers, dance academies, wedding photographers, beauty consultants, and D2C founders have done the same thing: opened Instagram, tapped the audio icon, … Read more
The conversation every first-time founder dreads is not the one they think it is. There is a specific kind of dread that sets in around month eight of running your first startup. It is not the dread of running out of money, or losing a client, or shipping something broken. You have been preparing for … Read more
A plain-language guide to what the ethanol blending programme means for the vehicles on Indian roads, and what every driver should do about it. India just pulled off something that most countries have only talked about. In under a decade, it went from blending 1.5% ethanol into petrol to making a 20% blend mandatory at … Read more
The conversation goes the same way every time. You’re six months into a side project. It’s getting traction — maybe ₹40,000 in revenue, maybe just ten paying users, but something real. And you’re tired. Tired of doing both things at half capacity, tired of your best hours going to someone else’s company, tired of wondering. … Read more
Guest post by Dr. Ankoor Dasguupta Let me start this with a metaphor. Think of a seasoned pilot mid-flight, cruising at 35,000 feet. The route is familiar, the instruments are functioning, and the destination is known. Yet, beneath this apparent stability, subtle shifts in air currents begin to emerge, micro-turbulences that are not immediately visible … Read more
There is a peculiar irony baked into the way knowledge is distributed in any industry. The people who know the most about a subject are almost always the same people who earn a living from it. And the moment someone earns a living from something, their advice on that subject is colored — whether they … Read more
Guest post by Shweta VoraFounder, Zillionite | Financial Leadership Educator As Mastercard says, money cannot buy everything. For everything else, there is Mastercard. Before swiping the card for its potential, let us value and shield those things which money cannot buy. What Money Cannot Buy Thoughts – Money cannot stop lingering thoughts. Anger – You … Read more
Guest post by Sahil Nayar Let’s face it, most of us have Googled “How to have a difficult conversation with my boss without losing my job?” at least once. And if you haven’t, congratulations, you either work with saints or you are the boss who needs the coaching! Now imagine having a coach who’s available … Read more
Guest post by Dr. Ankoor Dasguupta There are two things that shifted in my life in recent few years. Once, when I invested in a coach for myself. Secondly, when I did my PCC from ICF. It is difficult to express the shift to someone as a lot ‘moves inside’ and it is more of … Read more