Entrepreneurship

February 14, 2010

• Winning Strategies – A career perspective from Arun Agrawal

  Last week, my friend Arun Agrawal agreed to do a guest post on my blog. I found the subject interesting and aligned to the taste of my readers. So here it goes:
  Winning Strategies
  What is your formula for incredible success in any field that you decide to work in? Technical skills, right connections? If you ask [...]

February 10, 2010

• Interview on SEO Outsourcing by Kelvin Newman @ SiteVisibility

  I was recently interviewed by Kelvin Newman @ SiteVisibility.
  Here is the link:
  http://www.sitevisibility.co.uk/blog/2010/02/09/a-crash-course-in-seo-outsourcing-offshoring-with-abhishek-rungta/

September 7, 2009

• A short interview

  I got a very interesting interview (questionnaire) from TiE Delhi. I think this is smart and I enjoyed answering it. So here it goes:

  I was born in Kolkata.
  When not in office, I like to be at home.
  Favourite holiday destination – Darjeeling.
  The quality that impresses me most in [...]

August 31, 2009

• Seeders – Angel fund and incubation for the tech startups!

  I had precisely three envelope entrepreneurial ambitions! I call them envelope as each of them encompass several small ambitious projects. All three are aimed to change the world in my small way and make it a better place:

  To build a successful Internet technology company which can enable millions of businesses
  To bring mass scale change in [...]

March 27, 2009

• Braving the downturn – More recession strategies

  I recently shared few ideas with fellow IT companies about braving the downturn in a NASSCOM event.
  The takeaway from the presentation was -
  Stick to fundamentals. Business is simple. If we complicate it for the sake of some buzzwords, we will see more such tough days!
  Here is the presentation for you:

  Earlier in the day, our Industry [...]

March 12, 2009

• What’s next? Social Media Fraud!

  Over years, we have been subject to several frauds.
  It can be a political fraud when someone do horse-trading of members of legislative assembly / parliament to reach the coveted majority mark in the parliament. Or cast their influence to get a contract awarded to his favorite business house.
  Then we have been subjected to corporate fraud [...]

February 21, 2009

• Why am I enjoying the downturn?

  I was wondering last day –
  Why am I enjoying the downturn?
  Today I got the answer at Seth Godin’s blog.
  Because it brings around change. Status-quo is being challenged.
  Things will not work the way they used to work. Innovation and hard work will score over luck and speculation.
  It is a problem for those, [...]

• How to have an economical stay in the UK (mainly London)?

  United Kingdom (UK) is an expensive economy with high cost of living. For business visitors, it is important to have an economical and comfortable stay. Based on my experience, I am putting together some tips for fellow business travelers.
  Hotel / Stay:

  Accommodation in UK can vary between GBP 10 per night (for bunker [...]

February 18, 2009

• Street smart strategies for the recession

  Hello Friends,
  Here are some street smart strategies to survive the recession:
  1) Invest in marketing. Your competitors are not doing so to save money. You shall go ahead and make the kill to get maximum leads and exposure. As we know offense is the best defense. So it is best to attack recession with your [...]

February 9, 2009

• Random tips on starting and running a business

  Recently, I met Rahul Kapoor.
  He is an interesting guy. And we met in an interesting way. He commented on one of my blog post and we got connected. When he was traveling to Kolkata, I invited him over for a chat.
  During our course of discussion, we discussed random things. Then surprisingly, he sends me [...]

• The entrepreneurial pledge

  I have recently taken an entrepreneurial pledge led by National Entrepreneurship Network (nenonline.org).

  Please go ahead and take this pledge at http://nenonline.org/eweekPartner.do?method=fetch&businessFn=eweekPartnerRegister

December 3, 2008

• Internet strategy for small business

  Friends,
  I have recently written an article for SME WORLD (November 2008 – January 2009) issue of Financial Express. It should be a good read for any small business if they want to put together an Internet strategy for their business.
  Internet Strategy for Small Business
  Internet is making the world flatter and giving small businesses a level [...]

November 13, 2008

• Vocational Excellence Award by Rotary

  Hello Friends,
  I am glad to let you all know that I have been honored by the Vocational Excellence Award by Rotary International District 3291. It was presented to me at a function at Rotary Sadan, Kolkata on 25th October, 2008.
  I will like to thank Rotary International District 3291 for their recognition. My heartfelt thank you everyone, [...]

November 6, 2008

• CreateOnlineBuzz.com – A new approach to blog marketing

  Dear Friends,
  We have recently completed an innovative project for one of our prestigious client 9.9 Media. It is called CreateOnlineBuzz.com.
  CreateOnlineBuzz.com is an initiative to create a high value eco system for the bloggers and advertisers. From this online platform, advertisers can purchase online campaigns for marketing their products or services. They need to mention the [...]

September 3, 2008

• How not to write a business plan?

  I am always interested in investing in new venues. Few days back, I stumbled upon a bunch of entrepreneurs who wanted to develop a 3D action game. It looked like a freaky idea and I was all game for it. I asked them to put together a basic business plan. Nothing monstrous. Just a simple [...]

April 11, 2008

• Is he really a business baazigar?

  Guys,
  Recently some of my employees got unsolicited call from a gentleman called Manish Gupta, who wants to woo them away from my company to his startup. Of course like every normal human being, my colleagues also need a reason to go and work for a relatively unknown and small company.  So they need convincing. And he [...]

March 24, 2008

• Managing vs. Leading – What an organization needs?

  I regularly hear about terms like Manager, Managing, Management, Management Team, etc. The dictionary term for manage is "cope: come to terms or deal successfully with" and "pull off: be successful; achieve a goal"
  In my opinion, the word ‘manage‘ makes me think about:

  Control,
  Status Quo,
  Monitoring
  Come to terms

  Somewhere it reflects a sense of compulsion, where someone [...]

March 20, 2008

• Buying and selling websites

  In recent times, I have seen a growth in marketplaces which help website owners to buy/sell websites.
  It looks like a good idea, as it allows website owners to reshuffle their portfolio of websites and offer services / products which are more aligned towards to their largest consumer segment (read traffic on their most popular [...]

January 13, 2008

• Offshore outsourcing in India – going through a tough time.

  Offshore outsourcing – a concept that made IT & India synonmous with each other in the first decade of 21st century is loosing its glamour quotient consistently. It seems that by 2010, hundreds of software companies will run out of steam as they loose their competitiveness in the ever changing industry, since their business model has [...]

November 20, 2007

• Can entrepreneurship be taught?

  I was recently speaking on "Myths & Facts of Entrepreneurship" in Entrepreneurship Summit 2007 at IIT Kharagpur (KGP) on behalf of NEN. Overall, the event was nice, but it made me think over few points.
  1. Can we really teach entrepreneurship?
  Entrepreneurship, as I see is,

  An instinct,
  An attitude to create something new,
  An activity which creates value [...]