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A Diamond is an Entrepreneur’s best friend..

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Rodinhood

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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VC = Venture, Vapor, Vulture & Vampire Capital

Posted on October 26, 2010 by Rodinhood

VC comprises Venture, Vapor, Vulture and Vampire Capital. Its a combination of wisdom, diligence and fate that makes an Entrepreneur taste her flavor of VC and overcome whatever comes her way. In the end, after managing these VC’s, the entrepreneur will have nothing left to fear. Continue reading →

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Are you bribed to work or is your work a bribe?

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Rodinhood

I vividly remember a meeting at a Fortune 500 Corp’s office a few years ago when seven gentlemen gave their cards and all of them read ‘President’. When I looked at them quizzically, one of them sheepishly smiled and said ‘Alok, even the office boy here is a President’.. Continue reading →

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‘Entreception’ = Entrepreneurs + Inception can be the new Bible of Success!

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Rodinhood

One of the biggest dangers of entrepreneurship is that you fall in love with what you are doing and even when events turn ugly, you refuse to ‘wake up’. Like in the movie Inception, you have to watch out for Mal. Else your dream will become your death…
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What Entrepreneurs must learn from Fashion Models!

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Rodinhood

One day, when I was on my regular ‘contest begging’ trips, I was stunned when the brand manager of Liril Soaps (a Unilever Company product) said, ‘Alok, don’t harass me. We make soaps here – not contests. If you like contests so much, why don’t you make them and pitch them to me, rather than the other way around’……. On introspection, it was so clear why the games succeeded in China – with no mass entertainment options available (TV and films are state controlled) and very cold weather, Chinese teens were happy to lock themselves into gaming dens and play away for hours non stop. On the other hand, in India, with 3 bollywood movies releasing a week; 500 channels on TV and very warm and ambient weather, teems cared a damn to sit in suffocating game parlors and play online games with silly dragons and elves Continue reading →

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Our Clients are our VC’s..

Posted on February 21, 2010 by rodinhood

Situation: 2003 – Post dot com bust. My co-founder GK (Gopala Krishnan) and I had launched a mobile business called mobile2win in China and India and were gaining solid traction. We had been awarded the Indian Idol business by Sony … Continue reading →

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VCs should learn Bonsai…

Posted on October 16, 2009 by rodinhood

In most VC funded companies, there is a sudden expectation from VCs to explode value creation just after the funding. To me, that is quite unrealistic. Continue reading →

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