Category: Mentoring
Posted on January 25, 2020
by Sumir The Seeker
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For a race that lays the utmost emphasis on the most auspicious moment to commence any project or venture and factors in a persons time of birth to the alignment of heavenly bodies, we gleefully abandon these tenets when it comes to delivering on a promise. After all promises are meant to be broken Right?
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Category: Blogs, Culture, Guru, lecture, life experiences, Mentoring, relationships, startups, teaching, technology, tradition
Posted on September 14, 2019
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It’s now almost two years coming up in a few short weeks, and the journey has been great. Amazing in fact. The company grows from strength to strength…..we have overcome some hairy challenges and taken a few hard knocks, but always rallied and always overcome. The hours are long, the hands a few too less, but do I wake up raring to go? Absolutely!
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Category: adventure, Blogs, business model, Culture, financial institutions, friends, friendships, hindsight, International Mobility, investor, jobhunting, lecture, life experiences, Mentoring, relationships, startups, teaching, technology, UncategorizedTags: adventure, challenging, Continents, Culture, determination, education, financial startups, funny, International Experience, life experiences, mentor, Mentoring, mentors, Overseas, relationships, restaurant, Road Warriors, startups, students, Sumir The Road Warrior.., teaching, technology
Posted on September 20, 2018
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Circa 2007/8: Krishanu takes a liking to photography. Cut to September 2018, Krishanu opens up his work, albeit a limited selection, to one and all. He actually says we are free to share, so sharing I am.
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Category: adventure, Blogs, Bombay, family, father, generation gap, hindsight, la familia, life experiences, London, Mentoring, papa, parenting, photography, relationships, sister, son, the familyTags: adventure, challenging, determination, education, emotional, family, la familia, life experiences, nostalgia, parenting, UK
Posted on March 4, 2018
by Sumir The Seeker
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As far as I am concerned, his passing was no longer a matter of sympathizing or for that matter empathizing with someone else who has lost a dear one. This is as close to home as it can get. This is Papa. Papa was special. He wasn’t just papa, he was my friend. My friend is gone, and he’s not coming back, ever….
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Category: adversity, Blogs, Bombay, Culture, family, father, friends, friendships, Guru, hindsight, India, la familia, life experiences, Maharashtra, Mentoring, Mumbai, papa, parenting, relationships, Religion, separation, sister, sisters and brothers, spirituality, teaching, the family, tradition, UncategorizedTags: community, Culture, family, life, relationships, society
The instructions then, for Round Two were to judge the twenty six who made it through the elims out of the two hundred fifty odd who had initially applied. Not only were we to judge but also mentor and that’s a bit of a trick. Only twelve will make the grade this time, and move on to Round Three.
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Category: adventure, Blogs, investor, life experiences, Mentoring, private equity, startupsTags: eBay Foundation, griffinworx, judge, kumar jhuremalani, mentor, Mentoring, mentors, sean griffin, startups, TIE Mumbai
Amol and I were with a leading captain of industry, and an authority on the Startup ecosystem, just this past Monday, and the discussion centred around the rather vexatious subject. We discussed Scale challenges, operational challenges, skill challenges. We also discussed specifics about how certain well-known Private Equity, Venture Capital firms were struggling, and were facing serious challenges in finding viable exits or the ability to cash out.
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Category: adversity, business model, Culture, economy, financial institutions, hindsight, investor, Mentoring, private equity, relationships, startup failure, startups, venture capitalTags: Consulting, due diligence, private equity, relationships, startup failures, startup success stories, technology, venture capital
Posted on June 9, 2017
by Sumir The Seeker
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60 million? Back in the day, and I’m talking some 17-20 years ago, that was a lot of money, and all I could think of is the fee based income that would follow suit. Would it? How? Well 1.5% as a Syndication Fee was a tidy bit of pocket money.
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Category: adventure, adversity, bar, club, pub, hotspot, watering hole, Blogs, caisson, fatal error, financial institutions, hindsight, iron ore, jobhunting, life experiences, loan syndication, Mentoring, mining, ports and harbours, shipping, stock market scamTags: ADB, Consulting, financial institutions, FMO, Goa, IDBI, IMF, investment management, iron ore, loan syndication, mining, restaurant
Posted on June 8, 2017
by Sumir The Seeker
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Statistically, the failure rate of Startups far exceeds the rate of success. Pity then that not much is really said of startups that fail, why they fail, how they fail. In their failure, complicit are the ones promoting the startups, the ones who fund them, the ones who value them, the ones who deal with them and the ones who run them.
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Category: adventure, Blogs, Bombay, family, friends, life experiences, Mentoring, startups, UncategorizedTags: financial startups, fundamentals of business, harold macmillan, macmillan publishing, school of hard knocks, startup success stories, startups, sumir nagar
Posted on May 31, 2017
by Sumir The Seeker
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This past weekend, I have been through an experience most fascinating, rewarding and humbling.
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Category: adventure, Blogs, Bombay, friends, friendships, life experiences, Mentoring, photography, UncategorizedTags: cycle2work, eBay Foundation, griffin worx, Mentoring, mentors, smart commute foundation, startups, technology, TIE
