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Following Elephants Around Chambery
A French city with a close connection to India – Chambéry has a delightful elephant trail that you can follow to discover the historic sites of the city, without having to open Google Maps!
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Fairy tale Castle (Almost) In My Backyard…
Less than an hour from Grenoble, the Château de Vizille ticks all the boxes of a fairy tale castle, and comes with a museum dedicated to the French Revolution. Little wonder that I keep going back…
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An Immersion in Wallpapers, Art Nouveau and Hydroelectricity
A visit to Maison Bergès, also known as the Musée de la Houille Blanche, the family home of Aristide Bergès, famous French hydraulic engineer and industrial papermaker.
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A year of packing…and mastering ovens!
2021 has been a year of madness, marked by packing, unpacking, moving in and out of houses…and mastering all kinds of household appliances, of which ovens have given me quite a few gray hair!
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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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Lessons in Agility from Arya
You might have noticed that I’ve been a bit obsessed with agility over the last few months. I’ve read several research papers, and case studies, but the biggest example of agility over the last few months has been Arya. From being a dog that refused to step out of the house…
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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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What’s in a name?
What’s in a name, you ask? Quite a long story, I say. Take my name. Geetanjali Shrivastava. I was named after the collection of poems written by Rabindranath Tagore, since my father had hoped for a girl with a sweet, melodic voice. He didn’t get that, but that’s a different…
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Lessons In Agility Courtesy Global Warming
A story about shoes, global warming and the importance of agility, whether in something relatively inconsequential as my attire for the day, or something as important as the next steps in our startup.
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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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