Reflections on Entrepreneur Mindset and Startup Culture

Key to success in aggregator model:

low cost of customer acquisition
creating real value, and hence having profitable transactions

I have no more tolerance for the word 'tolerance'. Let's use 'sensitive' instead. Two sides of the same coin.

Businesses who won’t invest in digitization aggressively NOW, will be left to be obliterated within next decade. We are at an inflexion point. Competition and change won’t be kind to them, and are going to be even more disorienting. May better sense prevail.

An individual can walk into work with a combination of hands, heart and brain or none. Either he can do the assigned task, or add passion into it, or even put thought into it. It defines the value he creates for the org. It is critical to engage and enable at all three levels!

IT companies, startups, and healthcare organizations need to work closely for innovation and pilot projects. Learning from such engagements, incubation of ideas will lead to an increase in effectiveness and efficiency in the Healthcare sector. Industry must embrace experiments

How about team members have freedom to choose their managers? The poor ones will know that they need to improve to get the team’s trust and can work, instead of living in a bubble. And team members get a life.

Your company starts to scale aggressively when its corporate/product brand becomes more recognizable, respected and trusted than your personal brand.

New rush among startup founders to buy more equity in their ventures. Great idea. Just mind the source of funds. Hope it’s not by pledging the current shares!

We are all a product of our life experiences.

Unfortunately, most leaders – business or political, do not end up empowering people (against the well accepted leadership practice preached everywhere) due to their acute insecurity. We need ‘secure’ leaders, who are confident, humble, learning, empowering and leads from behind

Everyone loves Vanity Metrics. Vanity metrics = instant gratification. Sanity metrics = hard work + critical thinking + unsexy + hard hitting We know, which one is the ‘instant gratification generation want to choose’

Biggest opportunities in life and work comes from the most unlikely sources. And they need investment in time and learning. That’s why, though I define an ideal customer profile for my leadership team; I keep exploring beyond the edges.