AI Trends
Big name SaaS companies developing their own in-house LLM’s.
‘The zero-to-one moment for LLMs is gone’: Zoho AI Director Ramprakash Ramamoorthy
AI for The Rudimentary Routine Stuff
The power of AI is not in only making something unique and rocket scientific, but more so in helping to solve the small day to day tasks, that will make an enormous difference both in terms of valuable time saved and spent on more core tasks and also in terms of dollars saved behind rudimentary tasks and earned from the core tasks.
The ‘Boring’ Side of AI That Could Make You a Fortune
Communication Consistency
Communicating ideas is a very tricky thing. Not just to the outside world, but also to ourselves, from our mind to the paper. Identifying the breakdowns in communications is important, so that it can be addressed, and the original meaning or context of the communication is understood in its original sense by the receivers.
Communication breakdowns while launching strategic initiatives
Change
Staying stagnant in mind and mindset causes fear and paralysis to growth. With times one has to change the mindset, to adapt with the times. What worked in the past need not necessarily work now?
Why America is Afraid of India? What is the Reason?
Context
The business world has moved from “Customer is the King” to “Content is the King” and now “Context is the King”. AI tools are rewarding when they see clarity. Any generic input into an AI tool, will produce a generic output. Being more specific and narrating the scenario in detail, helps the AI tool understand the business and the context, and it then delivers a meaningful output.
How to Train AI to Actually Understand Your Business
Diversification
Expanding a business involves either venturing into newer markets with the same product, or introducing new products to the same demographic, which is basically diversification. Big name multinational companies or family legacy businesses have the resources and capital to deploy for diversification across many sectors under the parent company and brand, This does not mean that small and medium businesses cannot think of diversification or think that its only for the large companies. A small or medium business owner should actually be more proactive on diversification with the thought that if a large company that is profitable with enough money in the bank is still venturing in to new sectors, then he or she must also to, than to remain comfortable and then get disrupted. Diversification and innovation is no more a luxury only for the big guys, it is very much a necessity for the smaller ones.
Ambani bets on AI with new Reliance unit, partnerships with Meta and Google
Door Openers
Education / Learning is a lifelong process. And we all have a teacher that we need to find to open the doors, show us the way.
Where Would We Be Without Them
EV Space
The EV space be it two wheelers or four wheelers has been hot, growing at double digit rate a year. The premium price tags on the EV’s has resulted in a niche for itself as a market in major cities and towns. While it started of as a premium conscious commuter, it surely has picked up more attention and demand from budget concisions demographics as well. That’s a gap being addressed by Zelo Electric, which offers Electirc scooters at affordable prices by sourcing the various components for it’s various two wheeler variants, from local as well as international suppliers, and assembles it on a semi automatic line.
How Zelo Electric is building affordable EVs for small-town India
Donations Resulting in Higher Profits
Donating surplus food items or items about to expire, help is solving the problem of food insecurity, and better profits by making space for fresher items that will fetch better prices from customers, hence resulting in higher profits. Discounting items that may be about to expire is not advisable as well, as they occupy valuable shelf space that can be used for fresher items for sale.
Economic Uncertainty
While economic uncertainties can be daunting, making one question a lot of their plans, it’s am opportunity to relook and recalibrate the existing plans, update them where and when favourable, constantly study, learn and relearn, not panic with the short term uncertainty in economic cycle and maintain a long term view.
What the Smartest Investors Do During Economic Uncertainty
Entrepreneurial Success Stories
AriZona Beverage Company founded by Don Vultaggio an inspiring journey in entrepreneurship, from beer distribution to manufacturing malt beers, to moving in to the non alcoholic beverage segment to dominating the space now, to fight legal battles with the cofounder for a decade, to not selling out to the bigger corporations and to keeping the business in the family, truly can’t be more entrepreneurial a story than this.
The Snap Decision That Outsmarted Snapple – Don Vultaggio AriZona Beverage Company
Entrepreneurial Legacy
Entrepreneurial and startup success are more about bootstrapping and organic growth than about raising venture money and scaling fast.
How Mumbai-based Parsi Dairy Farm built a 109-year legacy of trust and purity
Financial Traps
Lifestyle upgrades are not the only financial traps. In business scaling beyond an economic sense is also a financial trap.
Why Most Lifestyle Upgrades Are Financial Traps
Funding
From predictive to generative to agentic, the latest in AI models that are trending in terms of startup’s being launched band also funds being secured through VC’s. Having an AI agent Co working along side humans is expected to be the norm going further.
Agentic AI startups raise $2.8B in VC funding in 2025: Prosus report
Early stage AI ecosystem (developer tools and infrastructure ) startup’s gaining venture capital interest in India. Early stage funding in startup’s had generally dried up, seems to have returned in the AI space.
AI Adoption Takes Off, VCs Line up for Indian Developer Tools Startups
Gardening
Buying and consuming nutritious food, buying gym membership and creating a routine to exercise there on are not the only ways to be healthy. Something as simple as gardening does the same, at a much lower cost you get to grow your own food and doing all the movements whilst gardening is equivalent to a cardio workout. The study contributes for a good marketing message for promoting sales of all kinds of garden utilities and more so the habit of gardening itself.
What an Hour of Gardening Does to Your Body
How Can Gardening Bolster My Mental Well-Being?
Generative Engine Optimisation – GEO
SEO was for search, GEO is for AI prompts and replies. Businesses will have to craft a GEO strategy to appear in AI results. Anything that a business speaks about, stands for in the digital world, will get picked up by AI tools, hence a unified messaging will be important to maintain consistency and appear in AI results.
Your Next Customer Found You in ChatGPT
Go To Market
A collaborative and agile approach between the various functions within an organisation or business is important for success. Every business function working hard independent of the other functions, leads to chaos internally and dissatisfied customers externally. A Go To Market alignment amongst teams for breaking down a siloed approach, transforming into a shared approach with the common goal for organisational success.
The Hidden Cost of Siloed Teams
Health
As a part of the entrepreneurship related feeds on my digital spaces, I recently came across cases of fateful early demise of young entrepreneurs resulting from a heart attack. Then learnt more about the statistics around heart health and fatalities over a particular podcast episode. A simple test along with the blood test can assist as a good indicator of current heart health, possible risks ahead and steps to prevent those kind of risks early on.
Simple £5 blood test could help prevent thousands of heart attacks, study says | Medical research
Simple lifestyle changes like monitoring blood pressure, managing stress, right meal consumption and exercising in consultation with your physician, a basic and fundamental start towards a healthy heart.
4 Ways to Reduce Your Heart Failure Risk, According to Science
Hunger Trap
Entrepreneurs are meant to have a hunger for success. But at what point is the appetite for the same satisfied.
Beyond the hunger trap: Devdutt Pattanaik on why founders must rethink their purpose
Hustle
Entrepreneurs have more on the table at most times than the time available to complete those tasks. And in completing those tasks one faces many obstacles physically and mentally. Expecting all the obstacles physical and mental to go away is not practical, only practical thing is to have the mindset to be able to overcome them and move forward.
James Dyson – Living on the edge
Entrepreneurship is an adventure, one lives many years like most won’t, so as to later live the life like most can’t. It may not turn out so fabulous for all, but it surely still is an adventure worth having.
Library
Visiting a library and spending time reading and learning about the place is equivalent to visiting a temple, church or any holy shrine. These are the Top 10 Most Beautiful Libraries in the World. I generally like visiting a library and spend time there doing the stuff. Having visited the State Library of South Australia and the Victoria State Library in 2024, and knowing about their ranking in the top 10 list is motivating to do more of it going forward.
The 10 most beautiful libraries in the world
Lumberjack Strategy
Networking events can be time consuming, expensive and ineffective in securing new clients. A lumberjack strategy is a better approach to finding quality clients, and it involves finding the people who are already connected to your ideal customers. Like lumberjacks who cut down the trees, these people are already connected to your prospects. Building the lumberjack relationship takes time and money but it is guaranteed to bring in business.
Lumberjack strategy to find new clients without attending networking events
Marketing Needs To Be Simple
There are tons of strategies that one can deploy in marketing, but it may not drive any result, if at all. Marketing has to be organic to your business, it needs to address your company’s core message clearly and consistently. Analysis plays another important part of the marketing efforts, learning what’s working and what’s not helps in optimising efforts towards what’s working.
Why Most Businesses Overcomplicate Their Marketing Strategies
Morning Routines
Starting every morning with a routine of visualisation, gratitude and plan for the day is important to own the day, than be owned by it.
Tony Robbins | My Morning Routine Revealed
Neurobics – Aerobics for the Brain
Our brain is a muscle, and just like any other muscle, if we don’t use it, we loose it. Top memory coach and author Jim Kiwk suggests some basic tips to increase our brain power.
Neurobics Tips To Exercise Your Brain For Better Memory
Networking 2.0
Networking events and conferences are no more an ideal place for real networking. Anyone and everyone exchanging business cards and then following up seems to be the most inefficient process of networking. One on one networking is real networking, whether over a meal or coffee, it ensures no barriers and sets a comfortable situation to have a conversation and build a connection that does not have to lead into anything immediately, but surely results in the learning which is the foundation for the lead to develop on.
Why I Make Time for Lunch With Someone New Every Day
Newsletters
James Clear on True Wealth, Antidote to Anxiety and How to Love someone as they Change through Life
True wealth is time, time now. As entrepreneurs we must feel wealthy with the time we have now and the various resources to work on our ideas, startup, and businesses.
Entrepreneurs deal with anxiety on a daily basis, caused by various things related to work. The best way to deal with work related anxiety is by speaking to someone about what you are working on, just brainstorming this way may be a lucky chance to have a breakthrough with a problem. Working on a problem reduces fear and anxiety towards it, even if the work is not perfect or fast enough, it is some progress and action relieves that anxiety.
In entrepreneurship it is important to maintain the love and passion for the business at all changing times. Change is natural, and one must accept and be affectionate with it.
3 Ideas, 2 Quotes and 1 Question by James Clear author of Atomic Habits
James Clear on Managing Risks, Living a Well Rounded Life and Enjoying the Worst Case Scenario
Success depends on the risks you take, survival depends on the risks you avoid.
Starting small is not meaningless. It’s a start, which is the most important thing. Doing nothing results in nothing. Starting to do something is the most important step to achieve that something meaningful.
3 Ideas, 2 Quotes and 1 Question by James Clear Author of Atomic Habits
Seth Godin on doing the creative stuff first and the chores later.
It’s the same thing as you set aside the savings first, then you spend from what’s left. Working on ideas and projects has to come first as well, and doing the chores can be done later. Using the high energy early in the day for creative and productive work is more beneficial than wasting it on chores.
Monetise Minimally
Its ok to pace the growth of your business as per your terms. VC money can help scale higher and faster, but it may not be pleasurable. Bootstrapped or growing organically is a more pleasurable growth.
30 Years of Craigslist – Monetisation No Bid Deal
Master What You Need
It’s important to want the right stuff. And that comes by focusing at it from the inside, rather than the outside world dictating the wants or must haves. Mastering your needs frees you from being a slave to your wants. You begin to enjoy the process, the journey more than the reward or the destination.
Power is to Empower others
That’s exactly what Entrepreneurship is all about. Giving all the power in you to your idea, empowering it to transform in to a successful and sustainable venture, empowering those along with you on this endeavour, empowering the customers by solving their problem via your product or service.
This is What to Surprise Them With
Pet Care
The pet care sector to grow more, not just due to rise in pet adoptions by pet loving families but that going ahead we can expect more people becoming pet loving parents and adopting pets on having know the health and social benefits around having a pet in the family.
6 Ways That Owning a Dog Can Majorly Boost Your Longevity
Physical Activities to Train Your Mindset
Any physical activity or sport requires hard work and practice to get good at it. It’s always hard to get started with it, harder to be consistent with it, doing the thing every single day no matter rain or sun, night or day. And that’s the beauty of it, hard to start with, to build our muscles over it, and it becomes easy over time, and assists us to use that mindset over other things in life that may come hard on to us.
I Visited The BEST Swimming Pools All Over The World (Here’s What I Learnt)
Pursuing the Possible or Optimise the Certain
Getting started is all about dealing with the possibility of getting it up and running. Once the possibility is attained, comes the work to keep it fine-tuned and certain.
Quotes
“A great intellect sinks to the level of an ordinary one, as soon as it is interrupted and disturbed, its attention distracted and drawn off from the matter in hand.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“Slow down, and everything you are chasing will come around and catch you.”
– John De Paola
Red Teaming
Entrepreneurs have certain way of thinking and/or assuming things, events and situations. They may he right or fell right. But at times it’s best to get validation from outside sources to red team it, that is to fact check or validate the thoughts or assumptions. If it turns out right, that’s great, and if it turns out wrong, then all the more good, as it prevents one from going down the wrong path, saving time and resources and am opportunity to learn and change without any damage.
Can You Subject Yourself To This
Self-Control
Entrepreneurship is all about and best when it’s in the self’s control. The challenges and the uncontrollable factors in entrepreneurship are usually external. The external factors can’t be ignored, can’t be expected to be as per our desires, but can be changed by keeping our self-control and working on solving the challenges.
What Drives Human Behaviour?
Values and Beliefs are key to driving human behaviours towards accomplishing the desired goal. In doing so, obstacles and setbacks are expected, and one needs to use them as a catalyst to move forward, than get stuck.
The Question That Transformed My Life (and Can Transform Yours)
Reading Rules
Reading is one of the most valuable hobby or activity to inculcate in one’s daily routine. And to make the most of it, it’s important to follow some clear rules like note taking, highlighting, re reading, reading deep are some of them.
Stoic Rules for better reading
Finishing a book before starting another book or activit,, the secret to Sir Dan Pelzer’s reading record.
The Man Who Read 3,599 Books in his Lifetime
Reading Trends
Reading is now more than an individual activity or habit, with social media and various other platforms, reading too has gone social, with groups formed online that share reviews and updates, to offline meet-ups for reading and connecting with fellow readers.
Startup Early
Conventional advice to the young is about graduating and getting a good job, gaining experience and saving up capital. But if one is interested in goons down the entrepreneurial path, then the earlier one starts the better. There is nothing to lose when you start your entrepreneurship journey early, the more you wait, the more you accumulate things to lose, like hard earned money from a salaried job, relationships etc…. Starting up early also means that you gain all the experiences and learning’s earlier than starting up later and experiencing those things then.
How I Built a $20 Million Company While Still in College
Startup Stories
CNSRV
Defrosting using water is an ideal way for food taste and quality, but is expensive given the amount of water used. CNSRV founded by Dylan Wolff developed a defrosting machine that does the work in half the time and 98% less water.
How This Startup Plans to End Restaurants’ Most Wasteful Habit
Healf
Max Clarke had nosebleeds for most of his childhood, and found a solution around it, through experimentation, by changing his diet, starting meditation and yoga, taking supplements and sleeping enough. This learning sparked an idea to start Healf that helps people discover their wellness journey.
Turning a health crisis into a $100M Business
Loisa
Loisa – a Latin food and kitchen brand founded by Scott Hattis and Kenneth Luna in 2018 as a side hustle with 2 products doing about 5 orders per day, about $70k annually to now doing 7 figures annually.
From 70k annually side hustle to a 7 figure annual full time business
Nori
Courtney Toll and Annabel Love launched Nori – a sleek, steam iron alternative, out of frustration from wrinkled clothes and space problems for iron boards or cheap steamers. The friends side hustled their idea alongside their day jobs, met many design firms to bring their concept to life, didn’t hire big teams, bootstrapped the business to learn the trade first, and then went into retail with Amazon, Target, Nordstrom and The Container Store.
This Frustration Became a $1M Side Hustle
River Mobility
Scale fast, fail fast seems to have turned around in to the slow and steady race to be sustainable and profitable while starting up. River Mobility launched in 2021, selling it’s first EV scooter in Oct 2023, to currently around 1700 units monthly, has opted for a cautious learn and grow approach in the EV scooter segment.
Stakt
Millie Blumka and Taylor Borenstein side hustled Stakt with $50k between them to a $10M in 2025, their story validates the need to start with what you have and where you are than to wait for a perfect time. Additionally, to embrace chaos than to resist it, as it is bound to be there no matter what, and developing a mindset to deal with it is a better approach.
Co-founders of Stakt on Starting a Side Hustle Earning $10M in 2025
Sunday
Coulter and Trent Lewis launched Sunday a lawn care company from their garage back in 2019. Putting in a year of research and validation through hundreds of customers over a year, refining the product and also doing backward integration by doing ag tech with testing soil samples using their proprietary technology and suggesting customised lawn care plans.
Brothers Start Business From Garage, Leads to $100 Million+
Serial Entrepreneurship
Serial entrepreneurship is not that complicated if one can get the basics right. Mastering the basic things such as time management, prioritising tasks, delegation, organising and maintaining work-life balance helps with running multiple businesses at one time. Moreover if you turn you hobby or passion or something that you love doing in to a business, then it may actually not feel like work, and you will be happy to run an additional business.
Master the Art of Running More than One Company at Once
Stress Recovery
Work related stress seems to have increased considerably across the geographies. It is definitely going to cause stress when business, economic and geopolitical environments are volatile. But to handle the volatility and overcome the same one needs to recover from that stress. Recovering from stress may not mean jus taking rest, but being proactive with a plan to do something’s that are not related to work, and are energising you back physically, mentally and emotionally.
How to Recover from Work Stress, According to Science
Success
Success is not just a trophy, it’s a tool that can be used to help others to succeed as well.
Guy Fieri and Dan Bova Live in Las Vegas | How Success Happens
Simple rules are the formula for succeeding at anything. It’s never some complicated formulae. Simple rules that’s it, sticking by them can be difficult, but worth it.
Sustainable Success
Lasting success is silent, its doing it organically with meaning.
Technical Excellence A Trap
A business must focus on excelling in various functions of the business to succeed. Only focusing on technical excellence does not result in profitability.
A Change in Communication prevented Bankruptcy
Turnaround
Adding complimentary products to your core product offerings may be a good strategy to increase revenue and growth, but it’s also important to note the added cost in doing so. Cost of materials as well as the operational cost behind it. If it is difficult operationally, means more effort is going in for a result that is not justifying. Discontinuing such offerings or turnarounds is a better thing to do then.
Sweetgreen Salad Chain’s Turnaround Plan after posting disappointing earnings
Wealth Creation Habits
Wealth creation habits are simple, making those habits a part of your days is the challenging stuff.
What the Rich Do Daily That You Don’t
The Wealth Timeline
Wealth creation is not a random act or something that happens over night. It requires planning and years of working on that plan. With time and age, the plans need to be updated to meet the changing requirements.
The Wealth Timeline: Where You Should Be by 25, 35, 45, and Beyond
Work Life Balance
For entrepreneurs the traditional concept of work-life balance and the tips for one, will not fit right. Entrepreneurs have a very different work ethic and environment, and incorporating some unconventional hacks to maintain a good work-life balance.
Six Unconventional Habits To Help Entrepreneurs Find Work-Life Sanity
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