One thing common among successful business people is that a big majority of business people are good networkers. The old saying “It’s not about what you know, it’s who you know” probably holds true even today. Some might argue further saying “It’s NOT who you know but who knows you.” Either ways, you get the point rt? I always knew networking was important,... 

Recently, Adrienne Graham invited me on Google Hangout to talk about “Lean StartUps”. Initially, I was a bit hesitant because I wouldn’t consider myself an expert on “lean” practices and besides it was at 7pm Eastern Standard Time and since I am based in India, it would be 4:30am in India. But I decided to take the plunge and see where it leads me. I am glad I took up... 

Pranab Mukherjee, India’s finance minister served a death sentence to startups in India by introducing a startup tax when he presented the Indian Budget 2012-13 on March 16, 2012. Basically, what this says is that “if an Indian resident who is NOT registered as a venture capital company pays a share premium above the fair market value, the amount in excess of the fair market value would... 

As mentioned in my previous post, I went through Tim Young’s article on raising capital and I worked on my investor presentation. I believe presentation is very important. I would have liked to share the new slides that I have made here on this platform but some of the information may be confidential and so I am not sure if I should make them public yet. My slides are NOT a cut and paste of... 

After putting together a powerpoint presentation for investors, I sent out the presentation to a list of investors. I made a list of about 190 investors and I sent it out to the entire list. About 60 – 70 emails bounced back and several of them sent me an email stating that my particular business does NOT fit into their investment focus. I got a sort of interested reply from IAN (Indian angel... 

Before I start off on my journey through raising capital, let me start by telling you a little bit about myself. I started my first business in 2004 while doing an internet marketing class, a friend showed me around the internet and I got mesmerized by it. I am not much of a techie, at least I wasn’t back then. He showed me how to set-up a website and i started by first internet e-commerce site... 

“We use debt sparingly and, when we do borrow, we attempt to structure our loans on a long-term fixed-rate basis. We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet. This conservatism has penalized our results but it is the only behavior that leaves us comfortable, considering our fiduciary obligations to policyholders, lenders and the many equity holders who... 

Recently, someone emailed me about recycling electronic products. I do believe in conserving the environment and I do believe in recycling. But it never crossed my mind as to what we do with our electronic items once they reach the end of their life cycle. It’s been a long time since I bought an electronic item, my laptop has been with me for the last 5 years. My old mobile phones are lying somewhere... 

I came across a great guy who’s changing the way fitness and health is being perceived. I want you to meet Markus Rothkranz. Having healed himself of multiple life-threatening illnesses, Markus Rothkranz is living proof how amazing life can be when we take matters into our own hands. Markus looks younger at 47 than he did when he was 27. Emails pour in daily as a testimony to how many lives... 

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