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A Diamond is an Entrepreneur’s best friend..

India is the Diamond that can be an Entrepreneurs best friend. Its all about D-Diligence, I -Intelligence, A -Age profile, M – Markets, O – Owners, N – Neutrality and D – Destiny – the qualities that India possesses and makes it a very valuable Diamond. Continue reading

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So you think you can ‘Start-Up’? Take my FURNACE test first…

Ready for the FURNACE test?   Almost every other day I get an odd mail from someone in a B-School or working in a corporate job wanting to ‘start-up’.  I am polite to all of them saying ‘think again’ but … Continue reading

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Why does Japan’s Panasonic import tomatoes?

I chuckled when I recently found out that Japan’s Panasonic has one far flung business division that actually imports canned tomatoes from Italy. Or the fact that Sony operates a restaurant and an advertising agency. It turns out that these are old … Continue reading

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