Tag Archives: barriers to entrepreneurship
Social Investing in India: Landscape study & Investor perspective
India has a rich culture and ecosystem of social enterprises, non-profits and many other social purpose organisations that serve the needs of many segments of society within a vast landscape. However, for a foreign investor looking for impact investing or … Continue reading →
Teaching kids to be entrepreneurs
Most school-going children are still rigorously provided skill-sets and build attitudes that belong in an earlier age when kings, nobles or religious leaders wanted to sustain a military-feudal power structure through obedience. Not discovery. Most universities still teach specialist skills that belong mainly in large-scale, … Continue reading →
10 Books for Start-ups and Small Businesses
For someone who loves books and dislikes naming favourites, it’s tough to quickly make a list of only 10 must-read books. There are so many valuable books an entrepreneur can learn from that this list is only a starting point, … Continue reading →
The Art of Business
Possibly one of the most important barriers for a would-be entrepreneur to overcome is the fear that she/he can’t really match up to the reigning titans of business. One way to overcome it is to ask: why do I want … Continue reading →
“World on the Edge”
This is the cover page headline of the October 4th, 2008 issue of The Economist, showing a man looking down from the breaking edge of a cliff. A few days ago, with some friends the conversation drifted from the state of politics … Continue reading →