Paying it Forward with the Stellaris Founder Network
“NPV of all start-ups is negative”, says a close friend of mine (Alok) and a very successful VC in the Bay Area. It is true. It is a hard path, with the odds always against you. You have to deal with a hundred battles to get to the finish line – finding product market...
Enterprise Product Management: Listening to the customer but building for the market
The nature of enterprise software has changed rapidly – significantly higher design/ usability expectations, cloud or hybrid cloud deployments, pay as you go pricing (sometimes usage based) and increased security & privacy concerns. As a result, one can argue that...
Is Execution Starting to Slow Down?
By Ashu Garg Founders rarely start companies because they want to manage people or scale teams. In fact, many founders have never managed people and don’t really want to do so. At the same time, most founders do want to be the CEO for as long as possible; because the...
Interview: The evolving Indian Consumer
The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has been conducting an annual survey to capture India’s explosive growth in digital consumer spending. Neeraj Aggarwal, Senior Partner and Chairman, Asia Pacific, BCG talks about his views on the “The evolving Indian consumer”...