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Agentic AI for Businesses Scaling Fast
A consumer brand that’s expanding its distributor network rapidly cannot afford to rely on manual prepared reports or traditional systems that help gathering data but rely on manual analysis and action there on. Agentic AI tools can help build entire systems department wise at enterprise level, with priority access features, enabling ease in analysis on demand and immediate action.
The Practical Way Agentic AI is Helping This Growing Beverage Brand Scale Fast
AI a Constructive Possibility
While most companies are using AI to automate routines, replacing the work forces in the process, Jeff Dean Founder of an AI startup Discovery Loop advices AI as a tool that does not replace the young workforce but a tool that empowers them instead, allowing them to grasp complex tasks that were out of reach once.
This Google Veteran Has Surprising Advice for Workers
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Best Book Markets in the World – Book stores are trending, and so are book markets some of them dated since the 1600’s. As a reader treat this as a curated list of book markets to visit when you are in these locations, as a traveler put it on you itinerary whenever you plan to be one of these locations.
Beating Yourself Up – Entrepreneurs face all kinds of challenges that may be in their control at times and out of their control most other times. No point beating oneself up over it, there are enough people out there to do it.
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Commonplace Book
A commonplace books is a great place to record thoughts, ideas, quotes, insights, book recommendations, blog posts, websites, web pages and just about anything that catches your interest at the moment. You never know when it may be of use to you in reality, and if it never does come of use, atleast it hasn’t harmed in anyway.
How to Keep a Commonplace Book (And Why You Should)
Cure For Self – Self care is important, not only for one but also for those around. Self care is important not only when you are down, but at all times.
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Document, Don’t Create – Work on any idea must start with a document. Creation is imaginative and ends up in waste of time as one starts looking to make it perfect. Documenting is also creation, rough creation, a first draft and the best part is that it gets the ball rolling immediately. So document, don’t create.
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Entrepreneur Spotlight
Early Walker
Early Walker founded W&W Towing in 2013 with one Tow Truck, growing profitably year on year with a million $ PE Exit. Playing the business games fundamentally right, by focusing on customers needs, being disciplined and consistent.
With One Tow Truck to a Million $ Exit
Vinita Siddhartha
Kreeda founded by Vinita with the aim to research, document, promote heritage Indian games. In the age of Minecraft and Roblox, Vinita is keeping the historical and cultural values in traditional Indian games alive.
Vinita Sidhartha is on a curious quest to revive the games people played
Emotional Hygiene – Very important to practice it in this day and age, when information is so freely circulated across social media platforms that can easily target your emotions. Anything digital or physical that targets an emotional turmoil must be checked off.
Entrepreneurship Post Service in the Forces
Inspiring stories of ex-forces personnel who have ventured into entrepreneurship in areas of startup ecosystem, financial planning for the men and women in the forces and defense deeptech.
Meet the former military people who are now entrepreneurs and industry leaders
Expectations
Expectations can be met sometimes and then disappointing sometimes. When expectations are unmet, it must be dealt with patience and understanding, no amount of stress or pressure can make that expectation right.
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Funding the Startup Ecosystem
India’s Biggest Startup Backer Is Hiding in Plain Sight – The Indian government has backed the startup ecosystem with plans and policies unlike other growing startup ecosystems of China and US.
Focus on One Thing
Focus on the one thing that is within you that can be aligned to the many things you may be doing. Just focusing on others and starting up one thing after another leads only into chaos. Focus internally to align all your ideas or businesses accordingly, and to succeed with them.
Robert Greene: “If You Don’t Focus On ONE Thing, You Will NEVER Be Succeed
Franchising Through Acquisitions – Aaron Harper launched Franchise Overdrive while still working at Belfor Franchise Group, looking for service businesses that could be franchised. Identifying a local business that had sound operations over the years, and bringing them as an investor on to the franchise system that he created. Thus giving the original owners two businesses instead of just the one that they had mastered over the years.
Freedom
What freedom means to Gen Z – The opportunities and the resources available to the new generation now is far better than those that were available to their parents or grandparents. But as per times each one has had their fair share of opportunities and challenges, and they have managed to handle those with responsibility. The balanced thinking and responsible action is what keeps the growth story alive.
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Growth
Growth comes from learning. If you stop learning, you stop growing.
The Best Students Keep Growing
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Journaling
There is not perfect solution unless it’s derived on paper. That’s why thinking on paper or journaling is gaining importance in people’s lives.
How To Journal Like A Stoic Philosopher
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Line Worth Remembering – Wisdom in words is true, like a quote, a paragraph from a book or an article in a magazine or newspaper, make a note of it, click a picture of it, for you can read it up next time you looking for motivation.
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Practice Then Perform
You need a studio, a study, a lab or a library to research, learn and build a plan a prototype. And you then definitely need a market place to step out in to and perform.
Preparation
Surprises most times are actually unpreparedness.
You Were Unsuspecting, Not Unwarned
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Read Like A Pro
Reading has to be qualitative, involve learning through note taking with pen and paper. No point just scheming through pages and books over the year to showcase for the world to see the number of books you read in the year.
Ryan Holiday’s 3-Step System for Reading Like a Pro
Read More
To read more qualitatively requires dedication and discipline. It must become an important activity of the day.
How To Read More Like Ryan Holiday
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Scaling Problems
One of the major problems with a growing business is the gap that gets created between the management and the work force. As the business scales its natural to put in systems and departments in place and delegate roles and responsibilities to managers and the work force. But its important to keep eyes and ears on the ground and closer to the various teams, to be transparent and approachable so that anyone can reach out and discuss whatever the problems or issues and solutions for the same may be, else the actual problem or issue actually changes when passed on through various heads from the bottom to the top of the organisation.
The bigger your company becomes, the further you can get from the truth
Second Mover Advantage – is not necessarily copying the first mover. Its tapping the opportunity the first movers missed. Its finding the gaps and executing on them better.
Startup Spotlight
Function
A preventive health solution using AI was launched in 2023 that costs $365 for membership, that’s a dollar a day, to fix problems that often gets labelled “live with it” or “go figure it yourself” by the conventional healthcare system.
I Dropped Out of Harvard to Build a $2.5 Billion AI-Powered Startup
A credit card sized recording device, transcripts and summarises at no extra fee, just $199 for the device, advanced features with subscription of $200 to $250 annually. Note taking automated but privacy concerns remain.
This Startup Already Sold 200,000 Units of a Popular Product
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Talkers v/s Doers
Take the learning from the critics, if there is none, leave the talking to them, and continue to do the important stuff.
Let Them Talk. You Have Work to Do
Thinking Short V/s Long
Developing new ideas requires to start with planning for the dumb, as most new ideas take time for people to understand and get used to, and then stabilize it for the smart in the long term.
Short term dumb, long term smart
Sources
1000 Libraries
Daily Stoic
Entrepreneur
Gary Vaynerchuk
Jesse Itzler
Rebecca Minkoff
Robert Greene
Seth Godin
Thunder Clip Studio
YouTube
