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Posted on September 14, 2019
by Sumir The Seeker
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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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Posted on October 27, 2018
by Sumir The Seeker
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“The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids” https://medium.com/s/story/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce
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So, the kid is at school, a new phase of his life, away from home, away from all things familiar, away from family, away from friends, new friends to be made, a life ahead of him. A life for him to shape the way he wants it.
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Category: adademics, adventure, Blogs, family, friends, friendships, life experiences, parenting, relationships, Relocation, teaching, technology, the family, UncategorizedTags: Bachelors Degree, BTech, cycle, education, electronics, emotional, facilities, family, hostel, hotel sudarshan, life, Masters Degree, MBA, MBATech, Mukesh Patel School, NMiMS, NPAT, parenting, relationships, Sirpur, sports, students, tapi river, technology, telecommunications, weekend, yawal, yawal wildlife reserve
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 14, 2017
by Sumir The Seeker
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Startup success sin’t measured purely in terms of funds invested. The Punt or the exit isn’t the measure of success, Profits are.
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Category: adventure, Blogs, business model, financial institutions, hindsight, private equity, startup failure, startups, venture capitalTags: private equity, risk capital, startup failures, startups, technology, venture capital
That was not to be, and instead, despite my considerable stints with considerable and financially sound national and international corporations, in seniormost roles, both in India and four continents, I would still continue to deal with businesses, with roles and assignments, that all had in some way, shape or form, “startup” as the central pivots of the roles that I played
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Category: adventure, adversity, Blogs, hindsight, jobhunting, life experiences, spirituality, startups, technology, UncategorizedTags: arthur anderson, atcom technologies, atcom weighing scales, bobby parekh, brick and mortar, centre for change management, click and mortar, CV, dr r l bhatia, education, family, HSBC, HSBC GLT, icici, job hunting, mafia, police, startups, technology, underworld, vikram doshi, well wishers
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
For the generation that has seen technology in the palm of your hand almost from birth, boys and girls I would like to say that, there was a time when there was no internet, and even worse, no cellular phones, only landlines to contend with, not to speak of the challenges of actually getting a landline (at least in India, way back). Yes people, those were the Dark Ages, very dark.
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Category: adventure, generation gap, instant gratification, life experiences, photography, technologyTags: education, humor, instant gratification, teaching, technology, USA
The only real question that matters is the one that the CEO asks. “You seem to have done a lot in your life, is there anything you can’t do?”. Instinctively I knew that the answer to this question would be the clincher, and my answer is, “Rumi, the only thing I can’t do is Kiss Ass!”. Little expecting such a response, (you had to be there) there is a look of surprise all around.
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This true telling, begins with me having been out of work for several months now, and I am getting rather desperate. Family to support, mouthis to feed. It was the bottom of the spiral caused by tech bubble that had gone bust, and jobs were not easy to come by. I literally sat each and every day and scoured every advertisement in various publications, and finding anything remotely suitable, I applied, crossed my fingers, my toes and pretty much everything that could be crossed, so much so that reading, and working long hours at the computer, did leave me blurry and cross-eyed at times.
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Category: adventure, Blogs, Culture, friends, friendships, India, International Mobility, life experiences, Maharashtra, Mumbai, relationships, Religion, spiritualityTags: 3i infotech, adversity, banking products, Consulting, freinds, friendships, humility, icici, icici infotech, intellectual property, international travel, investment management, nostalgia, radhakrishna pingali, relationships, Religion, technology