I first saw Monsoon Wedding in 2001 in the Piccadilly cinema hall in Sector 34 Chandigarh in 2001. It received a standing ovation by the mostly Punjabi crowd. Over the last 12 years, I’ve watched it once every couple of years – each time mesmerised by the characters, the cinematography, the dialogue and the sheer… Read more

People who read self help books generally don’t like talking about it. Considering how many people could improve their daily lives by changing themselves, it is a bit strange. The first time I heard someone talk openly about self-help books was Kishore Biyani – at TiE Mumbai in 2010. Someone in the audience asked him:… Read more

In 2013, as we grew our team, my role as a CEO became a lot more challenging. These two posts by Mark Suster really resonate with me – CEO’s job is being a psychologist to the team and all medal winners have coaches, no exceptions. If you haven’t read them, do have a look. I… Read more

Of late, I have been very fascinated about how different people solve problems. The approach you choose says a lot about who you are as a person and it is a good indicator of what you might become good or great at. I’ll take a few examples from my life. I think about them often… Read more

I was reading Malcolm Gladwell’s What The Dog Saw and Other Adventures and a chapter in it called “Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity?” made a great point – for great art, you need patrons. Renaissance wouldn’t have happened without patronage or subsidy. Now, I believe that for all good things to… Read more

I came across this article – “Who’s killing the Great Lawyers of Harvard?” a few days ago and read it eagerly to find out how it turned out for law grads of the premium Harvard Law School. In a lot of ways it resonated with my experience at NLS Bangalore and afterwards. 5 years is… Read more

I had written this as an email to Batch 6 of The Morpheus. For those who don’t know, Morpheus is a startup accellerator which gives entrepreneurs some money and lots of mentoring to help them succeed. I had applied for their 4 month program and made it in Batch 5. Since currently they are looking… Read more

This hiring saga continues (see previous posts – 1 and 2). If you think I am pathetic at building a team, it seems I’m not alone. I was in Goa a few weeks back with over 80 entrepreneurs on a fully sponsored The Morpheus retreat (one more reason to join them!). All smart men and… Read more

As a startup founder, you are in your own world where you cut out the noise, don’t worry about irrelevant things like wearing formals, cut through the BS in a conversation, try to paint a vision in the midst of nothing (your office of 1-2 people). As such hiring is difficult for all companies (ask… Read more

*not be taken seriously. It’s a play on Saat Khoon Maaf, a recent movie. Warning – long post. Read general thoughts and the conclusion at the end, if you are in a hurry. I started my entrepreneurial journey on June 1 2009 – I had no clue what was in store for me. It’s been… Read more