miten sampat blog

being awesome at Corp Dev

abridged thoughts on how to excel at Corporate Development

Limiting angel investors’ upside

I am speaking from personal experience here, so please read this note with that caveat.

Over the past 3–4 months, I’ve encountered a disappointing trend among a few tech entrepreneurs (in India) towards their early stage angel investors.

How to think about Corporate VC investors

Couple of friends asked me this question recently, so I thought it may be useful for a wider audience.

Often during a fundraise process at startups, you come across the investment arm of an Operating Company (unlike VC’s who only…

BSE Sensex validates that Food Tech revolution in India is no bubble

Consumers have more choice, and Pizza is no longer the only preferred home delivery option

I read this article in the Economic Times yesterday, and realized that the food-tech sector has…

Making big decisions

its not about choosing the defaults

Annual Reviews

so what did you do all last year?

Every year in January, many of us sit down with our bosses, supervisors, and mentors to review the year past. Often these reviews are institutionalized (read:required) by our organizations, and closely tied to financial…

Mentors - your aides in career navigation

Mentors - your aides in life (and career) navigation

tech media isn’t doing a good job reporting the truly interesting stuff

Too much of the tech media is obsessed with reporting the financial events around companies, rather than the products/services and innovation that occurs at these firms.

a 10 percent improvement means that you’re basically doing the same thing as everybody else. You probably won’t fail spectacularly, but you are guaranteed not to succeed wildly.

the curse of 10%

Larry Page succinctly described, in the above quote, the 10% growth syndrome that companies get into and…