One would have thought the Covid was the most dangerous pandemic the world had ever encountered. It turns out that is not true. The Virus of Mediocrity has been far more potent with no Vaccine and no Process to Track, Trace, Test and Treat. In the case of the…

A Buddhist Story This is a Story on the importance of being able to be in moment, no matter what the circumstance. It is possible to be alive in any moment only when one is Prepared for all Eventualities. A Buddhist Monk was walking along the forest path like he did every day…

Aspiration versus Ambition Ambition is an insular statement that emerges from the context of ME whereas Aspiration is a statement that emerges from the collective good of the WE. The incumbent and emerging middle class of South Asia has grown on a diet of assuring economic stability in their lives. Innovation has conventionally…

What is Human Capital? It is the Value each human is able to Create and Contribute to grow Personally and Professionally in the context of each one’s Life and Work; respectively. Value is measurable as Functional (Quality), Economic (Cost), Lifetime (Delivery / Time), Emotional (Service / Empathy) and Brand (Digital Flexibility); mutually inclusively in…

I recently met a candidate who labelled his resume as Full Stack Developer and that is the genesis of this article. I felt bad for him, as he was a Mechanical Engineering Graduate and had lost his job during Covid and tried to reinvent himself and so invested in a…

Venture Capital by definition is money invested in growth with Intelligence to shape the new. And growth starts at the root, not the fruit, isn’t it? The e-commerce sector has become one of the predominant sectors for PE/VC investments in 2021 recording US$15.9 billion, accounting for 21% of the total…

The only way to predict the future is to build it. Alan Kay, American computer scientist and winner of the 2003 A.M. Turing Award It has been fashionable to talk about the Future of this and the Future of that ever since Digital surfaced as an alternate driver of life…

The term ecosystem most of the time meets equal or greater response as a marketplace. The reason is the transition of Exclusivity to Inclusivity has not matured well in our societies; through the journey from Monarchy to Oligarchy to Democracy. Life on Planet has been designed to be an ecosystem…

Before we delve deep into this narrative on Correlation of Innovation and Startups, let us first have a unified definition of the two terms itself that we are trying to tie together. What is Innovation? Innovation is a journey in excellence that continuously traverses from Innocence to Excellence. …