AI for Starting up
Leveraging AI tools makes starting up easier.
AI Tools for a One Person Business
AI’s Next Big Test – Funds Raised, IPO bound are the hot topics within the AI space. How these funds get utilised and bear a return for the investors is the big question ahead.
Another Way
Entrepreneurship is never easy, starting up and building a successful and sustainable is about facing and solving challenges everyday. If a solution didn’t work the way it was meant to on a particular day, then take the lessons and move on to try it another way.
Bio Fertilisers Trending
Soil health degradation, chemical free produce and water pollution from run off during farming are some straight forward reasons for the increasing interest in Bio fertilisers. Add the geo-politics and war scenarios that can disrupt shipping of fertilisers to farms globally. Adopting sustainable methods in farming can start from our kitchens.
5 Ways to Use Orange Peels in Your Garden to Boost Plant Health and Keep Pests Out
Simple kitchen waste product makes plants grow taller and stronger – Earth.com
Super easy way to make your own fertilizer
Complement Packed
A packed complement is appreciation accompanied with a resource to further one’s efforts.
Ecosystem
Bengaluru Startup Ecosystem – ranked 14 amongst top 40 globally, with $39 Billion in venture funding between 2021 and 2025. Is funding the only criteria to rate startup hubs?
Bengaluru Ranks 15th in Global Startup Index with $153 billion Ecosystem Value
Funding Funda’s
Funds are focusing on mature or validated ideas. The deals have reduced but the deal size has increased. AI is playing a key role in prototyping or MVP and there on helping secure funding.
Reality Cheque: Big $ for Select Startups
Habit Formation
Learning is never ending, no one is perfect, nothing is perfect. At the same time we live in an age equipped with technologies and resources that can be used to upskill. A technology or a resource may be publicised in one domain, but need not necessarily be restricted to that domain, Oliver James used TikTok to become a bookworm from being a non-reader all through from his childhood to adult, whilst TikTok mostly gets associated to light entertainment.
Journey From Non-Reader to Bookworm Goes Viral
Health and Fitness
Strengthspan
Taking time out everyday to exercise at home or in the gym is a good habit, but to mix up the type of workout routines, variation in weights, sets and reps, cardio’s and some play some sport atleast weekly once is a wholistic strength training routine that can increase the strength span for years.
4 Mistakes to Avoid for Strengthspan Workouts and Longevity Gains
Ideas to Successful Businesses
Setbacks or failures to be treated as learnings and use them to improvise and succeed.
Discipline to see through hardships and to validate the pain points being solved in reality.
Building a business brand that targets the customers, converting them to loyal fans for life,
Hardships in the Pursuit of Success
Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Globally one can find the percentage of immigrants being more successful professionally than locals. Whether it be in corporate or entrepreneurship, the names at the top of the organisation is usually that of an immigrant. Yet certain administrations are turning a blind eye and targeting immigration in wrong ways, thinking the immigrants to be the problem, where as it is the immigrants that are solving the problems that locals are not able to see let alone solve. The numbers, the stories should be proof and inspiration for future generations of immigrants.
Importance – Two Faced Coin
Depending on one’s circumstances and the timing of it. What might be important to one at a point in time may not be so for the other.
None of it is important (and all of it is)
Mystery for Margins
Competing on price, or making price drops an attractive option to attract new customers or retain old one’s is a short game, as you can’t sustain it in the long run. Customer loyalty through great experiences out of the product or service goes a long way, does not get threatened by competitive low price offers. Customers that are totally loyal will not go, but still there may come a question, to which one must still maintain the mystery about one’s product and service and question the competitors situation for an understanding.
Where there’s Mystery, there’s Margin
New SaaS
Not too long ago there happened a debate on the quality of innovation in the entrepreneurship and startup eco-system in India, one that had unicorns in e-commerce, food delivery and such basic convenience serving sectors, being compared to the innovation in AI, Web3.0, Deep Tech in China. The Indian innovation story continues with mediocrity.
The New Sloth SaaS: Servant-as-a-Service
Reading Power
Reading literature and generally any genre is like resistance training for the mind. While AI and digital platforms and may offer solutions to our queries, the power, the solutions and the development one cultivates through reading will always be unmatched.
What Happens to Your Mind When You Read Great Literature
Regrets More Scary Than Failure
People are risk averse because of the fear of failure and/or parental advice on playing it safe from the young adult age by taking up a job. Also they regard others opinion more than their own. No one knows you more than yourself, listening to opinions is ok, but listening to your own self is more important. Taking calculated risks early on is never fatal, and even with it failing, it still learning and better than regret. No taking the risk leads no where but in regret.
22 to 30 Is When You Should Be All-In at Risk
Resilient Teams
Executing ideas into sustainable and profitable businesses is success, and execution requires having a right team in the first place. Identifying the culture, aptitude and attitude early on in the business ensures hiring right.
How I Hire and Build Teams That Don’t Fall Apart Under Pressure
Startup Spotlight
Rebl Dads
Entrepreneurship is a long and lonely journey that demands sacrificing personal time and spaces to achieve that professional success. And then the question “Is it worth?” Handling the home and the business must be of equal importance for entrepreneurs. That’s how it’s all worth it.
Rebl Dads – guiding entrepreneurs to align success in business and at home
Thenga Coco
Solving circular economy, social entrepreneurship and rural economy Maria Kuriakose has transformed waste coconut shells into functional and artisanal products for domestic and export markets. Additionally operating Thenga as an all-woman business Maria is surely building a brand that stands for women empowerment.
Meet the woman entrepreneur taking Kerala’s coconut shell products to the world
Solar Power for Food Waste Reduction
Cold storage facilities backed by solar power are reliable and economical compared to traditional energy supplies.
Solar-powered fridges are boosting farmers’ incomes by 50% while cutting food waste
Side Hustle
Traditional corporate jobs to work hard and climb the ladder and accomplish personal finance goals is being replaced by passive income generation through side hustling with fewer hours of work.
Side Hustling for Passive Income Trending
Stoic Lessons
Avoid Guilt Tripping
Knowing when feedback is positive and when it is not is important. Critics may always find a fault in you or your work, and that may not be something of concern, understanding that and staying course for the better is ideal, than worrying about the advice that is not helping in anyway.
Meaningful Success
Success is only meaningful if one has maintained the basic fundamental qualities of honesty, integrity, discipline and love along the way.
Wealth
A wholistic view of being wealthy is about measuring it beyond monetary and material objects. The freedom to follow various passions, to be in control of how one chooses to spend their time, to be able to live by the values one believes in.
Work On The Business, Not In The Business
Entrepreneurs tend to wear many hats, which is rewarding when starting up and penalising in terms of stalling growth in times of scaling. Creating a structure, systems and delegation to take care of the day to day during the scaling phase is important and a must.
Why I Became the Bottleneck in My Own Company — and What I Had to Change to Finally Scale
Source
1000 Libraries
Daily Stoic
Dave Berkus
Earth.com
Economic Times
Entrepreneur
Euro News
Gary Vaynerchuk
Guy Kawasaki – Remarkable People Podcast
Inhabitat
Jesse Itzler
Possible
Seth Godin
The Spruce
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