The common Indian’s ability to answer the question “Short, medium or long?” with “Medium Short” or “Medium Long” is super interesting. Does this stem from an inability to make a choice? (Medium vs.Short? Why not both!) Does this stem from an unwillingness to select from options pre-defined by someone else? Does this stem from an overarching desire to be extra troublesome? I don’t believe so. We are as capable of selecting from given options as the next person.

We entrepreneurs are mostly busy trying to get our own stuff together and don’t spend time to search for long-term support. Let’s fix that. Who needs mentorship? We entrepreneurs are so busy getting stuff done that it often restricts our ability to ask ourselves the tough, introspective questions. We need someone who has…

We recently had to go through a partial round of layoffs and some people in our team were let go. Dear Entrepreneur, Getting yourself in the position of having to layoff some people in your team is terrible. …

The industry my startup Buildkar sells to (small and medium sized contractors and builders) has it’s share of genuinely nice people and genuinely rude people. Just like any other industry. Part of being a successful entrepreneur is knowing when a genuinely unhappy customer is expressing their unhappiness in a rude…

This week brought news that one of our competitors (Buildzar, with a Z) shut down, closed operations, failed, etc. On the one hand there is my startup (Buildkar, with a K), non series-A, non pre-A, with low burn and growing handsomely. On the other hand someone with not just great…

There is a very strong sentimental reason for many people to watch fireworks light up the skies to mark various cultural events! We see fireworks being lit up during Diwali, during Eid, when India beats Pak in a cricket match. Even during weddings. With billions of people and a rise…

There has been a recurring fear ever since I started Buildkar (yes, us entrepreneurs also feel fear) The fear of playing the game with the big boys. Of being crushed for no fault of ours. Of not being able to scale up. It’s the fear that the Indian cement industry…

Everyone wants to B2B. It is the flavour of the season with investors, with the media and with entrepreneurs who jumped from uber-of-x in 2014 to foodtech in 2015 and want to B2B in 2016. Heck, even I’m running a B2B startup that has ecommerce in it. …

There are lots of things that you are supposed to be doing as an entrepreneur. Here are some things I’ve realized you can do as the founder of an early stage company that you may not have time to do once you’ve become much bigger. These powerful hacks can help…