Author: Mukesh Gupta

Ideas

There Is a Revolution Brewing Inside of Everyone of Us.. Its Time to Own It & Lead It..

  In this irreverent talk, creator, teacher and artist par excellence – James Victore shares his thoughts on Revolution. He believes that revolution is not something out there – Its Us. Its in us. There is a revolution waiting to happen inside each of us. This is exactly what Nilofer Merchant refers to in her book – Onlyness. Both of them believe that it is us who keep this “Onlyness” and the “Revolution” oppressed inside of ourselves. It is time to not only accept and embrace it, but time to celebrate this and unleash it in its full creative strength […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Recommendation

The Role Entrepreneurs Can Play To Bring The AI Revolution to Work With Least Disruption

Premise: There is a growing realisation amongst us in the world that we are currently just moving towards a future where most of the existing jobs will be taken over by AI and robots. While there are a lot of people who will say that the future where we will be either working along with AI or robots or even lose our jobs to them. There are already robots and AI algorithms which are helping do jobs that lawyers, doctors, writers, journalists, musicians, artists, accountants and analysts. Accounting Standards & AI: One of the things that was surprising to me […]

Entrepreneurship, Leadership

Declaration of Independence – Here is to the Crazy One’s

  One of my favourite ads of all time is the Apple ad – “Here’s to the crazy one’s“. This advertisement is a call to action to all of us who have a creative spark, an idea, the yearning to do something good, the frustration that we are wasting our lives the way we are living them. A lot of us are making a living not living the life that we truly want to live. I am not calling all of us to leave our jobs or to start a company or to disrupt everything. No. That is not the […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship

The Secret To Building a Successful Business

Premise: Manish Singhal is a founding Partner of pi Ventures. He is a veteran of 24 years in building hardware and software IP-oriented product companies, early stage investing, valuations, deal structuring and strategy advisory across different sectors. He is also a keen mentor of startups and has conducted many workshops in different parts of India to guide entrepreneurs on how to raise funds. On July 19th, Manish took time to answer questions from YourStory readers in their weekly section, ‘Conversations at YourStory’. The Million dollar question: In response to the question: “As a mentor to many, what advice do you have for budding […]

1000Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship

3 Kinds of Complexities That Every Entrepreneur Should Be Ready For And How to Deal with them

Premise: One of the things that is as predictable as the fact that Sun will rise tomorrow morning from the East and set in the West in the evening is the fact that once a business gains momentum, complexity will creep into the business, which will then slowly stifle the very growth that led to the complexity. So, what can we do about it: One of the things that entrepreneurs can do about complexity is to expect it and plan for it in advance. In a fast growing business, there could be three kinds of complexity: Process or systems Business […]