AI in Agriculture
The future of farming is soil plus code. Satellite imaging and AI models are helping make decisions for the entirety of the crop cycle. The number of approved agritech startups have grown form 700 in 2020 to approximately 2800 in 2023. Progress in farming is being defined with predicting, planning, planting and producing will working hand in hand to ensure minimal waste and quality control. The agritech market valued at approximately $900M in 2024 is set to grow to approximately $6.2B by 2033.
Intelligent fields: How AI is powering the future of Indian agriculture
AI Tools to Run a Business Single Handedly 24/7
AI technology is progressing from automation to autonomy, heling entrepreneurs to build systems that not just assist, but actually plan, execute and report back.
Assist to Automation to Autonomy – An AI Tools Checklist to Run Your Business whilst you asleep
AI Enabled Startup’s
Matthew Gallagher founded Medvi a tele health provider, investing $20k using AI tools to build and automate systems. The same systems may have taken him longer with employees assigned for development. Having scaled the business to billion dollars in sales, he has now contracted certain tasks to people. While AI is fast, it still is lonely. Dealing with people is stressful and time consuming.
How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company
Business Plan v/s Just Start-up
Many entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs find the process of creating a business plan time consuming and not useful. It is true that investors take interest in it, but post which the document loses its value. So most prefer to just start-up and go with the flow. Action is better than thinking, even if the results from the action are not perfect. But action without some important thinking is dangerous. Thinking through some of the important aspects in connection to the business, become a guide to refer to, to stay on course, to get back on course if the business is getting diverted from the main goals. A business plan with important points gives structure and direction to the business.
Why ‘Just Start’ Is Dangerous Advice for Entrepreneurs
Cardio Routine for Hair Health
Gym and fitness centres can now use another attraction to motivate people into their memberships. Hair Health. Whilst weight loss, strength and fitness training have been the most obvious selling points, scientific studies are relating a regular cardio or aerobic routine helps in better hair health.
The Surprising Link Between Cardio and Hair Health, According to Experts
Daily Stoic Newsletters
Stay Humble – Success must never get to the head. One must always stay humble, stay grounded.
Journaling – Starting your day with gratitude meditation and journaling ensures clarity for the day ahead. It may not go 100% as planned, but it ensures one is prepared even when the unexpected happens.
Stoic Routine for Clear Thinking
Power of Now
Now is precious, that is why it is also called as the present, focus on the now primarily.
Decision Making at the Top
Leaders are responsible to make decisions, managers and employees are responsible to to carry out those decisions. While leaders are not directly involved in the operations, systems and processes must be in place for leaders to be able to view the data and make clear decisions.
How Senior Leaders Make Fewer, Better Decisions
Dealing with Ideas and Projects
Ideas can come up in loads, executing them is the important thing. Jumping on to very idea must be resented, waiting out and seeing validation over time is better to start ok an idea than simply jumping on to every idea that comes up. Scheduling time every single day is as important for seeing progress with the idea. Hiring skills that one may not be best in has to be delay with total honesty.
“A Best-Selling Author’s Blunt Rule for Finishing Projects”
Emolument Creation
While layoffs are trending globally, unemployment rising, entrepreneurship is the best solution, not just for the self, but for the community as well, by creating opportunities for those who do not want to be entrepreneurs and seeking out employment.
Startups, Not the Only Game in Town
Embracing Diverse Thinking
In entrepreneurship one has to adopt an open mind and think in a multidimensional way. Adversities, setbacks and resources that are not useful are all going to be draining one, but thinking with an open mind, and letting those things just be in the scheme of the bigger picture may play it’s part by itself.
Why wildflowers are moving from meadows to the city
Going Green
Just a few ways more than you can think of around going green.
Can I get a little more eco-friendly every day? Four tips for a greener mindset
India Startup Funding FY2025-26
Startup funding for the FY2025-26 in India fell by 10% in comparison to the previous year. AI startups were the major investment attraction during the year.
Startup Funding Falls 9% to $10.1 B in FY26
Innovation
Innovation happens where there is action, on the shop floor. Boardroom meetings become pointless if they cannot create a system for the employees to work on solutions that can automate repetitive work and allow employees to focus on the creative and more challenging things. Innovators must not seek or wait for permission, must just put in the long hours that it requires and get the product up. The results will follow.
Innovation happens on the floor, and not in a boardroom
James Clear 3 2 1 Newsletter
Comparison must always be two the point, an entry point to understand the gap, then an exit point to take that learning in to action. Looping around in comparison does not lead anywhere.
Mindset must be open towards learning and change even as we age.
Learning quickly is possible only through action.
When comparison is useful, how to learn quickly, and the hidden key to aging well
The best time to deal with challenges is in good times, so as to be ready when times turn hard.
Clarity of purpose is important, without it, any amount of effort leads nowhere.
Observation is important, in finding opportunities and threats.
Building a good reputation takes time and effort, ruining it needs just one bad move. How difficult does it become for the one to recover the reputation? How difficult does it become for one to let go of the bad experience and look at the whole picture.
On clarity of purpose, the skill of noticing, and what it takes to build a reputation
Jesse Itzler Newsletter
The Long Game That Most Quit – Success is a journey which one has to be on, as life keeps evolving with time, bringing in opportunities across the lifetime. It’s a long game. Some people play it, most quit either from frustration or a pretence of contentment from genuine initial success or made up. It’s not a fair game then. The long game requires patience, perseverance, hardwork, faith and belief.
Machiavelli’s 7 Laws of Psychological Power
Negativity spreads faster than positivity, whether it be outside you, or within you. In the journey of entrepreneurship, one encounters many instances that turn out to be demotivating and depressing, and all of that is a result of reacting to those situations. Not reacting to the negative situations that don’t add any value to our journey is the best reaction.
Never React. Never Explain. Just Ignore.
Mindset for Risk Taking
Entrepreneurs are risk takers naturally, but how about when one is aspiring to be one. Risk taking may not one naturally to those aspiring to startup. It also does not mean that one should then not venture out with their ideas. Taking simple steps and understanding the basics is how one needs to start taking risks.
6 mindset shifts that increase risk tolerance
Opportunities Around Crisis
The war in West Asia has led to disrupting the supply of a lot of commodities and materials for agriculture and industry. Which also results in an opportunity for entrepreneurs to tap into home grown innovations that lead to sustainable supplies and businesses.
Govt Pushes Chem Fert Alternatives As Output Slumps
Risk It All
That is the thing in Entrepreneurship, you have to take the risk, whether it means moving to a new town or city, quit a well-paying job, mortgage your home to raise funds etc…. And after all of that, it still is never easy. Taking the risk is part of the game, it is not the only thing about the game. But until and unless you don’t take the risk and venture out with your idea nothing is going to happen.
Role Of a Second in Command (COO)
Any idea requires a variety of roles to play out efficiently and effectively to make success. While the Founder and or the CEO are good at laying down the vision for the company, it is the COO’s job to work on making that vision a reality. It is like the dreamer and the doer combination.
COO’s play a big role in facilitating the many ideas Entrepreneurs have
Seth Godin Newsletters
Friction
Every coin has two sides. Same goes with friction. Figure it out for the good and the bad, keep the good, kick the bad.
Plumbed – Convenience leads to consumption. Whatever the habit and goal one wants to achieve, one must make it convenient to have those resources around that ensure developing those habits or achieving those goals.
Attention and Effort – Pre internet a lot of effort went into gaining customers attention and building a business, then with internet the effort part became easier through emails and social media, but that became easy for everyone, hence the customers attention span got limited due to the information overload. Now we live in the Age of AI, where in agents can throw out information in seconds, personalised to ourself, without much worry on effort and attention.
Slide Decks No More
Slide decks are passive and a thing of the past. With AI team members can develop prototypes in the form of sketches, drawings, etc… that can be easily tweaked immediately live during the meeting, than taking notes as feedback from the slide deck.
Jack Dorsey’s Employees Don’t Bring Slide Decks to Meetings
Startup Spotlight
Never Have I Ever
Susana Chen and Jess Wu founded Never Have I Ever – a press on nails and wearable art smash up, making $3k to $5k at crafts to making $1.5m in couple of years of launching and also securing a shark tank deal.
Started Business Hitting $1.5M: Never Have I Ever, Shark Tank
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