Abundance Mindset
Thoughts influence one’s reality. Thinking of challenges in entrepreneurship as opportunities leads to abundance and growth, thinking of challenges as threats leads to scarcity and failure..
From Scarcity to Abundance: Rewiring Your Brain for Wealth
AI Bubble
Tech Analyst Henry Blodget finds similarity in times of the dot-com bubble and the current AI bubble, and warns of an impending bust of the AI bubble.
From the Dot-Com bubble to the AI bubble. The Boom and Bust cycle in business and industry
AI Trends
Much like the Internet that helped commerce spread virtually, AI is set to make services effective and efficient across sectors.
Burnout
Entrepreneurial success is not about sacrificing health and fitness. On the contrary it’s about consciously cultivating habits, routines with one’s health and fitness, that ensure energy and focus to not just strive but succeed as an entrepreneur.
Customer Onboarding
Customer acquisition goes beyond having then subscribe to your newsletters. That’s just the starting point, following which businesses need to send out relevant introductory information over a series of email, that keeps the customer engaged and gradually converts to a purchase.
How to Create the Perfect Welcome Series and Grow Customer Loyalty – Foundr
Disruptive Design Store
From creating Canvases as a hobby to launching Penny Linn a design store that’s redefining art supplies. Unhappy with existing products in art supplies and facing rejection from the supply chain towards her product ideas, Krista hustled to flcreat a supply chain for her innovative products.
Krista LeRay’s Creative Side Hustle Penny Linn Grew to $570,000 a Month | Entrepreneur
Domain Name Investing
Domain Name Investing is like investing in real estate on the web. Dennis Tinerino started his side hustle in Domain Name Investing in 2014 with just $36. It now has become a six-figure business. Dennis started small, slow, focused on learning the trade and grew his side hustle into a successful business now.
A Domain Name Investing Side Hustle Earns 6 Figures a Year: 1-2 Hours of Work a Day | Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship Trends
Democratising entrepreneurship for the 99%.
“Foundups are Solo Founders Coding their Idea with AI”
Entrepreneurship Success Stories
House of Bindu
Founded by Sathya Shankar, SG Corporates in the early 2000’s with mineral water under the brand name Bindu, soon moved in to aerated ethnic beverages and snacks, generating Rs. 570 crore in revenue.
House of Bindu founded by an auto rickshaw driver turned entrepreneur, now a Rs.570 crore FMCG brand
Entrepreneurship is Wealth Creation
Success in entrepreneurship does not come over night, it takes years of hard work, sleepless nights and sacrifices to build something that’s sustainable and of value. Much like wealth creation, that involves long term thinking, planning and execution which leads to wealth creation resulting in financial independence. Entrepreneurs like the wealthy are not necessarily flashy like the rich who spend on all kinds of luxuries to validate a social status.
The Difference Between Being Rich and Being Wealthy
Efficiency Trap
Doing more or getting more done is not necessarily efficient and definitely not productive. As more means quantity and when one goes for quantity, quality is compromised. To be efficient one needs to do less, be more focused, complete the task or project before switching to anything new.
How Small Businesses Can Break From The Efficiency Trap
EV Trends
The premium price factor of EV scooters that was considered a barrier for consumers to buy one in the initial days, and then the introduction of some cheaper variants that did get the buy in but nothing disruptive or large enough, is now fading. Often with any technology the price to benefits understanding and the adoption there on, takes time, so has it in the EV space.
Consumers want sturdy electric scooters, and don’t mind paying more; EV makers take note
Failed Ideas
A number of factors are involved in succeeding with an idea. A right team, a right execution plan and most importantly right timing. Sometimes the team and the execution may be perfect and yet an idea does not take off, and that is solely the case of the idea being launched before it’s time. Such ideas must not be given away for good, but must be stacked up someplace, so as to return to it at a future time.
Fashion
Launching in 2015 as a side hustle after college alongside helping her mom in business, Demi Marchese grew 12th Tribe from selling trendy apparel around festive seasons to a full time business doing $35M annually and approximately $250M lifetime revenue so far. A very fundamental founder philosophy of hands-on and boots on the ground, Demi immersed herself in all aspects of the business bright from the early days. An unwavering mindset in accomplishing set goals daily, weekly, monthly and yearly is an important factor in her success.
Demi Marchese Side Hustled her fashion idea 12th Tribe into a $250M Revenue Business | Entrepreneur
Funding Trends
Entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs will be better off building their startup’s organically, bootstrapped than relaying on funding in the current geopolitical economic circumstances.
VC inflow slips due to uncertain macro environment | YourStory
Experienced tech professionals having ventured into angel investing are now partnering with VC’s as limited partners.
Seasoned Tech Pros Partner VCs for a Piece of the Startups Action
Habits
Having meaningful habits as a daily routine is very important. Taking walks is one such habit that not only helps with health and fitness but also helps in solving problems or challenges that one may be facing in any other area of their life. Apart from providing solutions to one’s problems, walks also help in working our creativity and ideation resulting in breakthrough ideas.
1 Habit That Will CHANGE Your Life
Ideation
Idea generation is a skill that can be developed. It’s never about getting the perfect idea right away, that’s rare. To begin with one must focus on one problem within a time frame to list down as many ideas as possible. It’s important to be non-judgmental of the ideas and just list them. Trying to solve a problem with one perfect idea, is a longer process and may not even result in success. Quality is important, but the time to focus on making a quality product or service comes only after dealing with a quantity of ideas and validate them.
Unlock Big Business Breakthrough in 4 Minutes
Investment Thesis
Achieving a financial goal is highly dependent on one’s investment thesis.
How to Build an Investment Thesis That Actually Makes You Money
Law of Diffusion
A great product is not enough to make an idea, startup or a business successful. Timing and strategy for every phase of the idea in the graph of the Law of Diffusion is critical to succeed.
A Great Product Means Nothing If You Ignore This Principle
Optimism
Positive energy and beliefs are what keeps teams moving even in uncertain times. Leadership getting cautious due to lack of clarity in uncertain times can lead into the culture of the company, resulting in status quo and downturn eventually. Leadership must maintain strong beliefs in their vision and spread positive energy within the company not just in presentations and meetings but on a daily basis in all kinds of interactions.
The Leadership Practice that keeps Teams moving in Uncertain Times
Planning With A Future Use Case Mindset
Products and services need to be updates with times to stay relevant for growth, else everything may look fine and working, but it may actually be stalling the business as the offering has reached a ceiling by servicing the target market and unable to grow further. Developing products must also be done with a mindset of scalability and building for the future, else it’s just a waste as it may require scrapping and building again from scratch.
Procrastination
We procrastinate because of our emotions, when we are not emotionally willing to do a task important or not, we are bound to procrastinate. When we are emotionally down, we are least motivated to take action, but that’s exactly what we need to do, take action. Action builds momentum and motivation.
Procrastination is less of a time management problem, and more of an emotional management problem
Quotes
“Avoid the common pitfalls of over-expansion and time overload by keeping your offerings focused and your operations lean. When the time is right, growth will come — and so will profitability,” – Adam Horlock.
“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” – RUMI
“Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.” – BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Newsletters
- Before we learn a new skill – Entrepreneurship involves challenges everyday, requiring a new solution, a new skill set to develop in solving the challenge. And that’s the hard part, which needs to be worked out, only after answering some harder questions around it.
- Increasing the dosage – Entrepreneurs must have this skill of knowing when to go all in on the idea and when to stop. Going all in on ideas will not work, if the ideas are not validated for marketability.
- Under the circumstances – The results will always be considerable good, once one takes into account the circumstances.
- Making a point – its short term when compared to making an impact that stays longer. Unless of course a point is being made over making some kind of an impact.
- “People Aren’t Inherently Weak” – the systems that have been built and the company we choose to surround with, influence our habits, make us weak. It’s always easier to be part of the system or surround ourselves around the many average, even if it is making us weaker. Standing against the system, creating our own system, ignoring or detaching from the average is not easy, but it makes us stronger. Easy or not, maintaining discipline means growing stronger.
- “The Creator, the Artist & The Auteur: Why Tool Makers Keep Missing the Mark” – Entrepreneurs must ensure prioritising the right strategy to succeed.
Recycle
Re-turn is an excellent initiative in Ireland that enables collections of single use plastic bottles and cans for recycling. Leading to multiple benefits like ensuring recycling of single use plastic bottles and cans, stopping of dumping in landfills, clean urban spaces, developing mindful civic behaviour and rewarding the returns.
Consumers embrace Ireland’s first bottle deposit return scheme | Recycling | The Guardian
Renewable Energy Trends
Solar energy harnessed from solar panels on roof tops is an efficient use of probably unused space, however solar farms built over large land area is expensive keeping in mind the reality cost of those areas. Solar panels in space that capture and beam the energy to ground stations, free up the land area which probably can be put to other uses, but the cost building, shipping and maintaining space based solar farms is another important point to consider.
Ronnie Screwvala on AI
AI is a permanent shift when it comes to getting the routine stuff done. AI will be great in automation and acceleration, but it will depend on humans for their attention and focus.
The AI Eco systems as per Ronnie Screwvala
Result Based Billing
AI startup Paid is helping businesses redefine pricing of services from hourly to result based. Emphasising on results or impact ensures sustainable practices, strong partnerships, qualitative spends or budgets and guaranteed RoI.
Results-Based Billing: Exclusive Strategies for Best Outcomes – Startup Buffer | Blog
Small Business Success
Being locally relevant is the most important thing for small businesses today. Customers look for local or nearby businesses for the products or services, they are not looking for big professional organization’s but expect that professionalism from the local small business. Small businesses can maximise the return on the marketing spend by targeting the local market. Being active with in the local community is another plus, to gather reviews, ratings and customers.
Mastering Local Marketing is the key for Small Business Success
Startup Award Highlights
The economic times startup awards 2025 focused on good governance, scale and profitability, societal impact and employment generator.
Startup Mindset for Life
Maintaining a startup mindset no matter how old the business, is beneficial for the business as it allows experimentation and innovation.
Startup Trends
Rising geopolitical tensions and weakening economies in the west creating a ripple effect in the Indian startup ecosystem, with a very small number of graduates opting to startup.
Fewer IIT, IIM Grads Launch Startups This Year
Startup Spotlight
- Colossal Biosciences
Colossal Biosciences a biotechnology startup focuses on resurrecting extinct animals. It’s working on bringing the Dodo back to life in 7 years by growing primordial germ cells from pigeons. The germ cells evolve into sperm and eggs to produce the next generation of the bird species.
- Home From College
Young adults are often confused or not sure once out of college. Julia Haber along with Kaj Zandvliet cofounded Home From College a platform that helps young adults start their professional journeys by connecting them with relevant brands.
Connecting young adults with brands
- Wild Date
Wild Date founded by Siddarth CS is 2023, focuses on eliminating the problem with health snacks that get abandoned within a week or month due to their bland taste. Wild Date uses natural ingredients, no refined sugar and markets it more on it’s taste, unlike other health snack brands that market it based on its health benefit claims. Healthy is not necessarily better. Indian consumers are getting health conscious and are looking for healthy options. Brands solving that challenge via a nutrition label is old school, as consumers prefer a healthy and tasty snack with transparency from the brand. The Indian snack market is set to double from approx Rs 45000 crore in 2024 to approx Rs 100000 crore in 2033.
This Chennai snack brand is chasing the sweet spot between health and taste | YourStory
Ted Talks
- Break Rules
Entrepreneurs are known to disrupt, to break the rules or bend the rules, to unstuck from the status quo, all of which can be attributed to the characteristic of irrationality. An important characteristic to innovate, to startup.
Paul Bloom: The surprising psychology behind your urge to break the rules
- Success is a journey through rough roads
Entrepreneurship is never easy, one has to just get in with the action, there is no better time or place, no bystanding but simply jump in get moving.
Tracy Edwards: Stop being a bystander in your own life
Wealth Management
Ionic Wealth Management is redefining wealth management by combining human expertise and technology to serve not just the HNI’s but also the growing affluent class. Assets under management are set to double from $1.1T in FY2024-25 to $2.3T in FY2029-30.
How Ionic Wealth wants to redefine wealth management in India | YourStory
Sources
Bloomberg
Daily Stoic
Economic Times
Entrepreneur
Foundr
Joe De Sena – The Hard Way
Startup Buffer
Seths Blog
The Black Book Newsletter
The Guardian
The Intelligent Optimist
Ted Talks
Wealth Minded
Your Story
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