Month: February 2022

From mama’s boy to hardened entrepreneur Over the years people have asked me how I started an IT company without the IT startup path i.e business-plan, angel investors, multi-round funding, etc. My answer is: I didn’t know the path existed. It was many years before I associated the word ‘entrepreneur’ with myself. I did not […]

Convincing adults to grow vegetables is a lot harder than convincing kids to eat them, I found. Convincing adults to grow vegetables is a lot harder than convincing kids to eat them, I found. Kerala is nicknamed God’s Own Country. Tourists come from all over the world to bask in her lush tropical beauty. Bustling […]

“Give it to this guy, and its done!” I still remember the first deal I ever got. It was in Bangalore in the 90s. In true Bangalore startup style, where everybody had fire in their bellies and stars in their eyes, we aimed really high, straight out of the gate. Plenty of passion, no planning, […]