This is the 9th article in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma In my last article, I discussed the difference between ‘controlling’ the situation and ‘designing ways out’ of the situation. We “follow” when we control and “lead” when we design. With control regime you could survive in a static world but not in the [...] Read More
This is the 8th article in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma I was at the Microsoft Bizspark event at Bengaluru held at hotel Royal Orchid invited by the Your Story team and we had wonderful 16 finalists with great ideas. I was deeply observing their personality traits and its influence on the [...] Read More
This is the seventh article in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma Whenever I come across startup entrepreneurs, I am usually told about the obstacles, hitches, funding constraints, infertile ecosystem for new ventures and the difficulties they face to put their idea into action. If one goes deeper, one will realize that most [...] Read More
This article is the sixth in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma. An entrepreneur has to take decisions of different types and occasionally all at the same time. This is a typically tough situation and if your decisions are not objective but dependent on your mood fluctuations and mental compulsions then you and your enterprise [...] Read More
This article is the fifth in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma. Any success needs mental and emotional balance and so it is with the start-ups and entrepreneurs. We may be having a wonderful idea and we may be having all the resources to execute the idea but if we are not mentally and emotionally [...] Read More
This article is the fourth in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma. Is there something within holding you back, not allowing you to do what you want? If your answer is yes then you must address it right now. Most of the time we find an excuse and blame it on the outside when the [...] Read More
This article is the third in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma. An article I recently read was titled, “He is a poor man. He only has money!” and I somehow found it apt and intelligent. The spirit is very similar to the Harvard Business Report which found increasing number of budding leaders and entrepreneurs [...] Read More
This article is the second in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma. In my last article, ‘Tipping point for entrepreneurship’, I discussed an idea is not enough for successful entrepreneurship. An idea should meet right resources and action at the opportune time to actually translate into an enterprise that is sustainable, inclusive and intelligent. Now, [...] Read More
This article is the first in the series of 20 articles by Santosh Sharma. Entrepreneurs live the first few years as no one will and the next few years as no one can. This is what one of the fund houses wrote when they had to politely say ‘No’ to fund the project. And this [...] Read More
