Category: Start-ups
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Startups need both accelerator and brake to survive and scale up
Many startups fail to scale up, though they have great business ideas and the founders don’t lack either intelligence or passion. Here are the top reasons that are so obvious but neglected. First, mental resilience provides the magic sauce of high adversity quotient and breakthrough innovation. What are you doing to build and preserve your…
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Six fundamentals of survival and business growth for a startup
We must not miss the fact that all large businesses were medium, small, micro and startups at some point in the past. Interestingly 20% of enterprises fail within the first year, only 50% survive beyond 5 years, and only 30% survive beyond 10 years. Here are 6 fundamentals of survival and business growth of a…
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My Little 2020 Story
The Covid pandemic in the year just gone by was a huge ‘black swan’ event that most of the people didn’t see coming. In these 15 months, vulnerabilities were exposed in every sphere of human existence. Some have perished, unfortunately; some have survived, and some have thrived. At the end of 2019, I decided to…