Category: Entrepreneurship

Big Bang or Steady Growth – which is the right approach for your Startup?

The Entrepreneurship Summit in Mumbai is an annual conference hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology, one of India’s most prestigious technical universities. I was fortunate enough to be a guest speaker there this year giving talks on lateral thinking and on open innovation. There was a range of other distinguished speakers and two of them gave starkly contrasting advice on how to start a new... Read More--

Sometimes it pays to be an Antisocial Know-it-all

Ben Horowitz Ben Horowitz is an entrepreneur who developed a data centre software company, Opsware and sold it to HP for $1.6B in 2007. In 2009 he and Marc Andreesen (who created Netscape and Mosaic) founded the venture capital firm Andreesen Horowitz. It has had some spectacularly successful investments including Airbnb, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Pinterest. Horowitz talked about today’s leading... Read More--

What does it take to become an Entrepreneur?

And How can we Get More of Them? For the past 10 years Gallup has run a survey called Enrepreneurial Strengthsfinder.  Over 5000 entrepreneurs have been interviewed.  According to Gallup there are 10 key characteristics that leaders of successful start-ups display.  In alphabetical order these are: Business Focus Confidence Creativity Delegation Determination Independence Knowledge-seeking Networking... Read More--