Category: Startup Chronicles
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Ajmer Diaries: Chapter I
Spending a few days at the Adaptiv AI Lab in Ajmer offered me an unexpected blend of focused work and quiet reflection, thank to the Ana Sagar lake, visible from the office window.
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When Bias Comes from Within
Bias isn’t always loud. It’s often in who gets heard and who gets ignored. At a startup launchpad, my emails went unanswered, while my male co-founder received a response. The irony? This happened on March 7th, just before Women’s Day. Was it inefficiency or internalised bias?
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Paul Poiret: The King of Modern Fashion & A Marketing Genius
Studying Paul Poiret, the King of Modern Fashion, and entrepreneur reveals a visionary who revolutionized fashion through innovative design, strategic branding, and masterful event marketing.
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Goodbye teacher, hello GPT3?
Will GPT3 finally sound the death knell for teachers? Is it time to rethink the existing models of education?
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(Re)Discovering Paris
Heading back from Bangalore to Grenoble, we decided to spend a few weeks in Paris to explore, meet people and understand the French Tech ecosystem. Living in Paris like a local (well, almost), taking public transport to co-working places & meetings, and dealing with Parisians outside the tourist track opened…
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From Wallflower to Reluctant Networker
How entrepreneurship is forcing me to come out of my shell, do things I would have never done otherwise.
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From Bangalore to Grenoble: Part 1 Of A Long Journey
A few months ago, I shared my journey from teaching to building startups. That was the beginning of a long journey in entrepreneurship, in which I am learning much about the world, and myself. When we first started working on our start up, our focus was on the gig economy,…
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Learning to write to build audiences and attract users
One of the biggest challenges in building a startup is acquiring users. How can you convince people to use your product? Why would they choose your product, over the dozens (often hundreds) of other similar products? – You build their trust. – Yes, but how? – You talk to them.…
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From teaching French to building startups
As a cataloger of events, experiences and thoughts, I’ve always been narrating my life in diaries and blogs. So it’s only natural that I’ve decided to record this (not-so) new journey on which I’ve embarked. It all started in 2009, when my friend approached me with a content writing assignment…
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