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Every businessman or entrepreneur says that the one priority for people like him ought to be to network like mad.Therefore why do entrepreneurs network so vigorously? Well, some studies show that 70% of the deals funded mostly come through referrals. Therefore some VCs even insist that every one the business plans that go to them directly (through email) typically find yourself getting to either s...

They say lightning doesn’t strike twice, but nobody told that to Kunal Shah the founding father of India’s largest tech unicorn CRED.Cred was Kunal Shah’s second venture after he sold his first start-up Freecharge for $400million in 2015.Kunal Shah created CRED with the main intention of putting together an exclusive society with the foremost creditable people in India. CRED has grabbed the...

When it comes to ancient mythology, arrogance is a big part of the story. Icarus got too close to the sun with his makeshift wings and ended up crashing into Earth and drowning. Phaeton tried to be a chariot driver in place of his father, Helios ended up dying from a flash of Zeus. Niobe lost her children because she bragged about them to a goddess. The gods don't like to challenge or boast at the...

‘Buy Nothing’ could be the light at the end of the tunnel, these are groups of people connected virtually giving away things for free thereby helping people fight inflation.With inflation at an all-time high, almost everything feels expensive, In October·        The prices of apparel were up by 4.3% YoY·        And it also...

Most of the time, the idea of progress is probably the enemy of actual progress, A few weeks ago I met a guy in my workplace who despite having a great personality, an awesome lifestyle and a great network of friends told me with a straight face that he was thinking of working with someone to help him “Reach The Next Level”. I was really surprised about this, and I asked him about this whole t...

Elizabeth Holmes, The founder and CEO of the failed biotech startup Theranos went from being a visionary leader to a fallen biotech star. At one point in her career, she was also hailed as the next Steve Jobs. How did she even get there? Beginning of the endTheranos a fallen kingdom founded by a Stanford dropout, inspired by her own fear of needles started the company when she was only 19, wi...

In 1983 an up and coming guitarist was kicked out of his band for his drug abuse, overly aggressive and alcoholic behaviour in the worst possible way. The band had just signed a recording deal and was about to record their first album. But days before recording could start, the band showed the guitarist the door, without any warning, without any discussion, and even without a dramatic blowout...

Have no idea who these two are, I imagined Democritus to be such a figure.A few centuries ago; There was a city in Greek: Miletus. It perhaps was the most important city in the Greek world before the golden ages of Athens and Sparta. If you ask me, I would say that this was the first city to have produced or pioneered a different style of thinking, in which the student or in ancient term...

Just not happy with what you have Mark? Facebook is now on a spree of VR acquisitions the story gets great here and also plans to beam ads into the Oculus headset. VR can help people escape from reality but there’s always a price to pay and this time it's ads.Last week Facebook announced it’ll be testing VR ads with the motive of helping developers earn some revenue.Data monitoring won’...

Stevie Wonder is one of the most talented musicians of our time. Stevie started his music career at the age of 11 and his songs started hitting Billboard around the age of 13. He's is easily recognized by his unique voice and the sunglasses have now become part of his personality.Stevie is known to wear sunglasses because he's blind, but there are other conspiracy theorists who either prove or bel...