Satyajit Rout

Articles Categorised with "Entrepreneurship"

  • 20-12-2023

    138 - What causes success?

    ‘And so you start to wonder—what correlates the most to success—team, product, or market? Or, more bluntly, what causes success? And, for those of us who are students of startup failure—what’s most dangerous: a bad team, a weak...

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  • 17-11-2023

    124 - How to Escape Being a Rich and Wretched Entrepreneur

    Rethinking Rules: The Netflix Approach to Building an Innovation Culture ...

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  • 11-11-2023

    121 - Getting Better by Goofing up (Intentionally)

    How to Get Better by Going against Company Policy ...

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  • 02-11-2023

    117 - Should This, Not Can this, Product be Built?

    Startup-building is hard. New ventures operate in uncertainty. So it is inevitable that there’ll be waste but there are many levels of waste. The trick is to find the most acceptable level of waste by following a lean approach....

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  • 30-10-2023

    116 - The slippery slope of hypothesis-less entrepreneurship

    For the last year and across multiple stints before that, I’ve worked toward getting pre-product-market-fit startups (products and services) off the ground....

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  • 24-09-2023

    103 - The Truly Ambitious Hate False Progress

    If you have worked in operations (or taken an operations research course in business school), it is likely that you would’ve heard about the theory of constraints....

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  • 12-09-2023

    99 - ‘Real options’ thinking: Win the right, lose the obligation

    (why firms are better off thinking like venture capitalists) ...

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  • 25-08-2023

    93 - How to resolve the stickiest conflicts

    Every business leader, executive, senior manager, and founder has faced this question at some point, yet coverage of the topic is full of tropes. At least, I couldn’t find much beyond that in popular literature. So I looked deeper....

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