Atul Yadav

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  • The deeper relationship between art and entrepreneurship.

    The deeper relationship between art and entrepreneurship.

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    At the core of both artistic expression and entrepreneurial thinking lies a creative mindset that fuels innovation and drives progress. Artists and entrepreneurs alike share a unique ability to envision possibilities that transcend the ordinary. This imaginative capacity allows them to see the world not just as it is, but as it could be. For…

  • Interesting conversations enhance knowledge

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    Conversations with people, if done appropriately, can be knowledge enhancing endeavours, even if the topic is something you know a lot about. Knowledge resides in our brains in a tacit form, and only a certain part of it becomes explicit when we are exercising the use of the same. Many people wonder how we can…

  • Financial Freedom is a stupid concept

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    Financial Freedom is a stupid concept, even stupider is the concept of f**k you money, think about the following things instead. For people who don’t what it is, it is the amount of money you need to tell the world to take a hike. Unfortunately, no such number exists. However much you save, you can…

  • What makes an entrepreneur unique?

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    Many people live under the illusion that they want to be entrepreneurs one day, and most never do. The confusion here is about what entrepreneurship really is. Most people think it is a profession, and just like adding another job to your Linkedin profile, you can start “doing” entrepreneurship. According to them, the manifestation of…

  • Transformations of Different Kind

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    Any kind of change, especially radical change, brings with it many challenges for all the people involved. It is therefore insightful to take a look at them as a whole. Let’s look at corporate transformations, startup pivots, and individual career transformations as one thing and see if we can learn something by comparing the similarities…

  • Ring the bells that still can ring

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    Leonard Cohen crooned, rather perfectly:Ring the bells that still can ringForget your perfect offeringThere is a crack, a crack in everythingThat’s how the light gets in These are the kinds of lines that set you free. Free from the compulsion of producing something perfect. Free from the obligation of creating something that can not be…

  • Wittgenstein’s Duck-rabbit Metaphor

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    Wittgenstein’s duck-rabbit metaphor highlights the challenges of understanding the ambiguities in the environment. Besides being a philosophical problem dealing with change and cognition, it is a practical tool to understand the multiple aspects of reality. In real-life business situations, we encounter duck-rabbits every day that turn into sheep or lions weeks later. It is important…

  • My Best Stock Investment

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    It is 1999. Besides some punts made with my flatmates, I have not invested in any stocks. I am getting interested in stocks, but I think the stock market is a gambling den. I have a visitor for dinner, a friend of mine, a senior guy at a broking house with experience at a mutual…

  • National Startup Day

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    The honorable Prime Minister has declared the 16th of January as National Startup Day. This is a fascinating development and a piece of excellent news for the Indian startup ecosystem. As a humble contribution from my side, I plan to give the kindle copy of my book, “Reclaim Your Inner Entrepreneur,” free today and tomorrow.…

  • Are you the drunk searching under the streetlight?

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    Are you the drunk searching under the streetlight? The streetlight effect is a type of observational bias. It comes from the often-quoted story about the drunk and the streetlight and appears first in Mulla Nasruddin tales.  It goes like this: A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what…