Read more about the article Don’t take too much advice:Feedback Vs Noise in Startup
Don't take too much advice, most people have a lot of advice to give - Startup 101

Don’t take too much advice:Feedback Vs Noise in Startup

Startup is hard work and the journey gets harder when you start presenting your idea to people. When we talked about assessing your startup idea, the first suggestion was to test the idea for feedback. When you go out to get feedback, unfortunately you don't always get useful feedback. As you grow your startup, you must get good at separating noise from feedback.

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Be the Miracle, Parting your soup is a magic trick!-Bruce Almighty!

It is so easy to be caught up in the glamour of high-impact outcomes that we forget that the simplest of tasks might have the most valuable outcomes. This dialogue from Bruce Almighty amazes me. Achievement, greatness etc need not be a huge thing - it can be in small simple things that can move the world - just one step at a time.

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Read more about the article The critical ingredient in a startup is getting off your butt!
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something!

The critical ingredient in a startup is getting off your butt!

Though it sounds a bit crass, the quote makes an important point about taking swift decisions in a startup. We always get caught up between strategy and acting fast. In most cases, it is also called being tactical. For a startup, both strategy and tactics go hand in hand. We are forced to take some decisions quickly and have little time to strategise about its wider impact. One may even argue that strategy is a challenge with a scale up rather than early stages of startup.

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Read more about the article 10 Effective Tips on How to Deal with Gossips
10 Effective Tips on How to Deal with Gossips

10 Effective Tips on How to Deal with Gossips

This article talks about how to deal with gossips when people are spreading a rumor about you. It is a horrible feeling being a part of a rumor. It hurts more when these are false and there is no direct way to handle them. It is worse when your people don't understand the hurt it causes and continue indulging in them. Most gossips start as a harmless prank. We go into further details of these gossips further through the article. The presentation below provides a snapshot of the direction to handle gossips in summary.

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Read more about the article Ideas are like rabbits, you just need a couple of them!
Ideas are like rabbits, you get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen - John Steinbeck

Ideas are like rabbits, you just need a couple of them!

Ideas are like rabbits: A startup is much more than an idea. Most literature tends to either romanticise the idea or grit of an entrepreneur. What if I told you…

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Read more about the article If you’re starting something new, you better have the passion!
"If you’re starting something on your own, you better have a passion for it, because this is hard work." -Sallie Krawcheck, Co-founder of Ellevest

If you’re starting something new, you better have the passion!

If you're starting something new: This discussion takes you through key tenets of running a startup, the primary one among them being true passion about what you are doing. Running…

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