Secret To Startup Failure

Author : Sonia Lin
Publisher : Entrepreno's
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Entrepreneurship
ISBN : 0991426525

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Secret to Startup Failure by Sonia Lin Pdf

For those who are crazy enough to keep failing... Award winning entrepreneur and author of popular webcomic series EntrepreNo's: Secret to Startup Failure Sonia Lin unveils a startup life full of failures, based off her iconic humor in the webcomics that are weaved into practical themes in a startup life, coupled with words of advice to fellow entrepreneurs. The "fail fast, fail cheap, fail happy" mantra of this book commits to promoting work-life balance and the ability to look beyond and laugh at the startup life vicissitudes in order to achieve long-term entrepreneurial success. Get ready for Secret to Startup Failure to: Get over a less-than-successful launch day Pick a co-founder who provides politics-free companionship Interpret productivity from the garbage can Have an investor call on St. Patrick's Day ... and more Startup life is long, so fail where you should, and laugh when you can."

Author : Tom Eisenmann
Publisher : Currency
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593137024

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Why Startups Fail by Tom Eisenmann Pdf

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Author : David Feinleib
Publisher : Apress
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781430241416

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Why Startups Fail by David Feinleib Pdf

For the want-to-be entrepreneur thinking about taking the leap, the boot-strapped entrepreneur trying to energize a business three or four years in, and the venture-backed entrepreneur trying to scale, Why Startups Fail shows you the key mistakes new ventures make—and how to avoid them. Nearly everyone has an idea for a product they could build or a company they could start. But eight out of 10 new businesses fail within the first three years. Even only one in ten venture-backed startups succeeds, and venture capitalists turn down some 99% of the business plans they see. The odds appear to be stacked against you! But entrepreneurs often make the same avoidable mistakes over and over. Why Startups Fail can help you beat the odds and avoid the pitfalls and traps that lead to early startup death. It’s easy to point to successes like Apple, Google, and Facebook. But the biggest lessons can come from failure. What decisions were made, and why? What would the founders have done differently? How did one company become a billion-dollar success while another—with a better product and in the same market—fail? Drawing on personal experience as well as the wisdom of the Silicon Valley startup community, serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and blogger Dave Feinleib analyzes companies that have come and gone. In short, powerful chapters, he reveals the keys to successful entrepreneurship: Excellent product/market fit, passion, superb execution, the ability to pivot, stellar team, good funding, and wise spending. In Why Startups Fail, you’ll learn from the mistakes Feinleib has seen made over and over and find out how to position your startup for success. Why Startups Fail: Shows venture-backed startups and boot-strappers alike how to succeed where others fail. Is equally valuable for companies still on the drawing board as well as young firms taking their first steps. Takes you through the key decisions and pitfalls that caused startups to fail and what you can learn from their failures. Covers the critical elements of entrepreneurial success.

Author : John BRADBERRY
Publisher : AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780814416068

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6 Secrets to Startup Success by John BRADBERRY Pdf

It takes passion to start a new business. But that same entrepreneurial enthusiasm can also lead you astray.Over six million Americans start businesses every year. That's 11 startups a minute launched by passionate dreamers hoping to transform their lives for the better. But a huge gap exists between the skyrocketing levels of desire and what entrepreneurs actually achieve. The harsh reality is that most new businesses fail within a few years of launch. Why do so few startups make it? And what distinguishes those that do succeed? Entrepreneur, consultant, and investor John Bradberry set out to discover the answer and came to a surprising conclusionùthat the passion that drives and energizes so many founders is also the very thing that leads many of them astray. Filled with compelling real-life stories of both success and failure, this groundbreaking book reveals the key principles entrepreneurs must follow to ensure their big idea is on the right track. In 6 Secrets to Startup Success, readers will learn how to: Convert their passion into economic value with a moneymaking business model ò Improve their readiness to launch and lead a new venture ò Manage funding and cash flows ò Chart a path to breakeven and beyond ò Avoid the pitfalls that often accompany unfettered passion ò Build the stamina needed to persevere over time Complete with indispensable tools including an assessment to gauge a venture's strengths and weaknesses, 6 Secrets to Startup Success will help entrepreneurs everywhere turn their dreams into reality.

Author : Sonia Lin
Publisher : Entrepreno's
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0991426517

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Secret to Startup Failure by Sonia Lin Pdf

For those who are crazy enough to keep failing... Award winning entrepreneur and author of popular webcomic series "EntrepreNo's: Secret to Startup Failure" Sonia Lin unveils a startup life full of failures, based off her iconic humor in the webcomics that are weaved into practical themes in a startup life, coupled with words of advice to fellow entrepreneurs. The "fail fast, fail cheap, fail happy" mantra of this book commits to promote work-life balance and the ability to look beyond and laugh at the startup life vicissitudes in order to achieve long-term entrepreneurial success. Get ready for Secret to Startup Failure to: Get over a less-than-successful launch day Pick a co-founder who provides politics-free companionship Interpret productivity from the garbage can Have an investor call on St. Patrick's Day ... and more Startup life is long, so fail where you should, and laugh when you can."

Author : Ali Tamaseb
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781541768413

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Super Founders by Ali Tamaseb Pdf

Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest—revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false! Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one—30,000 data points on nearly every factor: number of competitors, market size, the founder’s age, his or her university’s ranking, quality of investors, fundraising time, and many, many more. And what he found looked far different than expected. Just to mention a few: Most unicorn founders had no industry experience; There's no disadvantage to being a solo founder or to being a non-technical CEO; Less than 15% went through any kind of accelerator program; Over half had strong competitors when starting--being first to market with an idea does not actually matter. You will also hear the stories of the early days of billion-dollar startups first-hand. The book includes exclusive interviews with the founders/investors of Zoom, Instacart, PayPal, Nest, Github, Flatiron Health, Kite Pharma, Facebook, Stripe, Airbnb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Lyft, DoorDash, Coinbase, and Square, venture capital investors like Elad Gil, Peter Thiel, Alfred Lin from Sequoia Capital and Keith Rabois of Founders Fund, as well as previously untold stories about the early days of ByteDance (TikTok), WhatsApp, Dropbox, Discord, DiDi, Flipkart, Instagram, Careem, Peloton, and SpaceX. Packed with counterintuitive insights and inside stories from people who have built massively successful companies, Super Founders is a paradigm-shifting and actionable guide for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in what makes a startup successful.

Author : Jamie Pride
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780730348702

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Unicorn Tears by Jamie Pride Pdf

The real-world secrets to startup success Unicorn Tears is the smart entrepreneur’s guide to startups. A full 92% of startups fail in the first three years — but failure is not inevitable. Most of these companies self-sabotage, unconsciously eliminating any chance at success before they even get started. It’s not the economy, it’s not politics, it’s not external factors; failure comes from within. This book shows you how to be one of the unicorns — one of the 8% who make it. Be prepared to un-learn everything you thought you knew about startups, as author Jamie Pride busts the harmful myths that lead so many companies to failure. Drawing upon his history as a venture capitalist, he reveals what investors want to see and hear, and what final factor puts your venture firmly into the “yes” column. Pride understands what matters in startups, and what gets in the way; his Hollywood Method for start-up success gives you a proven formula based on the tried-and-true framework Hollywood uses to make movies that succeed around the globe. Case studies illustrate what success looks like on the ground, and brings a global perspective to successful entrepreneurship and the strategies that help your business grow. Learn the truth behind the eight myths of startups Adopt a proven formula for success based on Hollywood blockbusters Craft a winning pitch to bring investors — and capital — over to your side Gain real-world perspective on startups and future trends Everyone wants their business to succeed, but wanting means nothing without a solid plan and the means to implement it. Unicorn Tears helps you set yourself up for success, and gives you the tools to forge your path to the top.

Author : Tom Eisenmann
Publisher : Penguin Business
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0241420172

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The Fail-Safe Startup by Tom Eisenmann Pdf

Author : Brad Feld
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118483312

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Startup Communities by Brad Feld Pdf

An essential guide to building supportive entrepreneurial communities "Startup communities" are popping up everywhere, from cities like Boulder to Boston and even in countries such as Iceland. These types of entrepreneurial ecosystems are driving innovation and small business energy. Startup Communities documents the buzz, strategy, long-term perspective, and dynamics of building communities of entrepreneurs who can feed off of each other's talent, creativity, and support. Based on more than twenty years of Boulder-based entrepreneur turned-venture capitalist Brad Feld's experience in the field?as well as contributions from other innovative startup communities?this reliable resource skillfully explores what it takes to create an entrepreneurial community in any city, at any time. Along the way, it offers valuable insights into increasing the breadth and depth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem by multiplying connections among entrepreneurs and mentors, improving access to entrepreneurial education, and much more. Details the four critical principles needed to form a sustainable startup community Perfect for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists seeking fresh ideas and new opportunities Written by Brad Feld, a thought-leader in this field who has been an early-stage investor and successful entrepreneur for more than twenty years Engaging and informative, this practical guide not only shows you how startup communities work, but it also shows you how to make them work anywhere in the world.

Author : Tom Eisenmann
Publisher : Currency
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780593137031

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Why Startups Fail by Tom Eisenmann Pdf

If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.

Author : Kim Hvidkjaer
Publisher : BenBella Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781637740606

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How to F*ck Up Your Startup by Kim Hvidkjaer Pdf

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Every business owner dreams of success, but the majority of businesses are doomed to fail. This book offers a journey through the pitfalls that cause 90% of companies to crash—and the crucial remedies entrepreneurs can use to avoid (or fix) them. Kim Hvidkjær was 29 years old when he became a millionaire. Two years later, after a cluster of disasters, he found himself basically broke. Now, having rebuilt his fortune as the founder of several successful enterprises and studied thousands of failed startups, Hvidkjær has become an expert in failure: what it means, what it looks like, and the strategies that business owners can use to prevent it. In How to F*ck Up Your Startup, he takes us on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the complex patterns of failure in the life cycle of a business, covering: Attitude mistakes Business model missteps Market research snafus Funding and financial blunders Product development errors Organization oversights Sales slip-ups Growing pains Most important, he tackles what to do when your business has gone wrong. Hvidkjær fleshes out a tangible, usable blueprint for entrepreneurs looking to learn (the easy way) from the mistakes of businesses gone before. Chock-full of easy-to-follow business lessons that will keep you from f*cking up your startup, this down-to-earth guide offers crucial, actionable advice for seasoned business owners and startup founders alike. A masterclass in failure, How to F*ck Up Your Startup is required reading for reaching success.

Author : Harlan Beverly
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501507014

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Navigating Your Way to Startup Success by Harlan Beverly Pdf

Startups, like sailing vessels, do not travel in straight lines. The wind and the waves of the real world move the ship, and your startup, in unpredictable ways. This book is designed to give you an analytical set of tools to help you navigate your startup or corporate innovation through the murky waters of real life. Every business has failures. No business succeeds without some change of plan. Navigating Your Way to Startup Success will show you how to create a startup designed to test its assumptions so those that are not worthy fail—often and fast. This book builds on modern startup management techniques like Agile and Lean to bring an analytical and quantitative framework to the most common startup failures. Navigating through those failures means finding your way to startup success. Harlan T Beverly, PhD holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, an MBA from UT Austin, and a PhD in Business from Oklahoma State University. Harlan teaches entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also Assistant Director of the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs at UT Austin, the world's first university business accelerator. Harlan has successfully launched five hardware and 15 software products including the Killer NIC, 2007 Network Product of the Year (CPU Magazine). He has raised over $30 million in venture financing in the challenging intersection of entertainment and technology.

Author : Shabnam Aggarwal
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9789353023140

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Freedom to Fail by Shabnam Aggarwal Pdf

My dear, incredible, beautiful team of superheroes, Over the past two years, we have given this idea everything we've got. We've given it our love, our time, our sweat, and even some of our tears...We will be shutting down...next Friday. I love you guys, and I am sorry to have let you down. Yours truly, Shabnam Shabnam Aggarwal always dreamt of success. Raised in an immigrant Indian family in the start-up hub of Silicon Valley, she believed that every entrepreneur could be successful. So she left her cushy job at Merrill Lynch to take a risk, find her passion, and make a change in the world. She moved to India to start a company.In Freedom to Fail, Shabnam tells the story of her brush with 'success': raising her first round of venture capital; hiring a hardworking team of millennials; growing her start-up to multiple cities...and then finding it all come to a bitter end. Shabnam gives us a peek into the world of start-ups in India. Her personal journey gives us an insight into dealing with failure, warning us of the challenges of starting a business, and helping us learn from her experience. Weaving each chapter into a powerful lesson in overcoming expectations, fear and self-doubt, she shows us why failure is important, even imperative, in order to ultimately succeed. And the best lesson she learnt: You haven't failed until you stop trying.

Author : Suneel Gupta
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780316494502

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Backable by Suneel Gupta Pdf

A groundbreaking book that boldly claims the key to success is not talent, connections, or ideas, but the ability to persuade people to take a chance on your potential. "The most exceptional people aren't just brilliant...they're backable." —Daniel Pink, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive and To Sell is Human No one makes it alone. But there’s a reason some people can get investors or bosses to believe in them while others cannot. And that reason has little to do with experience, pedigree, or a polished business plan. Backable people seem to have a hidden quality that inspires others to take action. We often chalk this up to natural talent or charisma...either you have “it” or you don’t. After getting rejected by every investor he pitched, Suneel Gupta had a burning question: Could “it” be learned? Drawing lessons from hundreds of the world’s biggest thinkers, Gupta discovered how to pitch new ideas in a way that has raised millions of dollars, influenced large-scale change inside massive corporations, and even convinced his eight-year-old daughter to clean her room. Inside Backable are long-held secrets from producers of Oscar-winning films, members of Congress, military leaders, culinary stars, venture capitalists, founders of unicorn-status startups, and executives at iconic companies like Lego, Method, and Pixar. Backable reveals how the key to success is not charisma, connections, or even your résumé, but rather your ability to persuade others to take a chance on you. This original book will show you how.

Author : Rakesh SIDANA
Publisher : RakeshSidana.Org
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781660971343

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Startup Never Fails (New Version 2) by Rakesh SIDANA Pdf

India has 38815 startups and there are secrets that 100 startups become unicorns with a total valuation of $240 billion. There are many real situations and decisions that make any startup become successful and get interest from many Investors and become funded. This book is a collection of commonly asked Questions asked by Startups and Entrepreneurs. 90% of startups fail. Have you ever wonder why startup get fails? Do you want to get answers to all those common questions which come into your mind? It will be more useful if you get answers from senior entrepreneur like Rakesh Sidana who gone through all start-up life with his two startups. The questions are regarding funding, investors, startups and entrepreneurs failure and success and many more. Have you ever wonder why startup get fails? Do you want to get answers to all those common questions which come into you mind? It will be more useful if you get answers from senior entrepreneur like Rakesh Sidana who gone through all start-up life. He built two start-ups, one funded twice. He himself gone through same journey to find the answers himself like finding co-founder, team mate and raising funding and hiring and pivoting business model and merger, acquisition.Learn from his entrepreneurial journey building from scratch to raise funds and exit. He explained his real startup experiences in this book. He is mentor and investor into startups and visit top management institutions with his passion to inspire students and who wants to be entrepreneurs. TABLE OF CONTENT What do most startup founders waste their time doing? I have a Startup Idea, how do I proceed? Which is better to do? Either do a job or start up a business with Same Knowledge? Why do 95% of businesses fail within five years? What are the correct things you did for your startup that made your startup successful? What do you want to be? A Businessman or An Entrepreneur. What’s the difference? What situations should a person be ready to face while starting a startup? What are the best ways to generate good business Ideas? 9..10..11.... 20 ... more common questions replied by the author. Read eBOOK Now! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rakesh Sidana is an entrepreneur, mentor and author of three books. He started his entrepreneurial journey in 2004 with International Business and later known for his passion and persistence for his unique Indian business - MeriCAR - that brought “CHANGE” in the automotive industry. MeriCAR was first of its kind business to bring SMALL CAR GARAGES and MECHANICS on one platform. This venture brought him in the front for his popularity in the media to discuss the change that is going to happen in India in the automotive aftermarket sector. He has been on the advisory board for startups and mentor for entrepreneurs. He has been invited and awarded by prestigious institutions like IIM, NIT as Guest Speaker to inspire students with his achievements. He was invited and a part of PM's initiative "Startup India, Standup India". HIS EVENTS ACROSS INDIA He organizes free campaign all over India by the name of "Startup Never Fails". It was One-Hour-Session which he conducted in major cities like Bangalore, Mumbai and Guwahati and spread awareness about reasons and common mistakes of failures startups before writing book “Startup Never Fails” which is a collection of all questions and answers asked by entrepreneurs in his sessions and Fb-Live. HIS BOOKS AND ONLINE COURSES He is an author of a book "I want to Fly, where are my Wings" for startups and writes book on recent trends based on his experiences. His second book “Where #Share is like Love” is on Social Media. He is passionate about writing on behavior science. First book is motivational book for entrepreneurs with real facts about their life. To share his knowledge and experiences, he has online courses on (Udemy) on new technologies and business ideas. He actively participate building and enegaging startup communities of over 1 lac members. CAMPAIGNS & SOCIAL WORK He is also building Non-Profit group by the name of "I Want to Fly Foundation" for education of unprivileged kids and offers startups with professionally designed mentorship programs and BELONGINGNESS & PAST Migrated from small town to Delhi for Management course, he started his career in 1997 as internet executive. Internet was a new term for India at that time and his articles on Internet and web technologies were published in leading magazines and newspaper like The Times of India.