In a world run by glittering names of elite institutions, and their alumni, small town engineering grads have an uphill journey in the larger tech world – starting from getting a break to climbing the career ladder. So what can level the playing field for them in terms of skills and personal qualities and what are
This is my third entrepreneurial innings. With the first, I managed to create a bootstrapped world leader called TWB or The Writers Block that serviced the largest Fortune 500 B2B tech leaders in the world. TWB made money from the 1st month and grew on its own cash flow. The next 2 startups, which I did
(Edit note: 17 April ’17. This is the unaltered text of the TEDx talk of Rakesh Shukla at TEDx ICT Mumbai 2017. This accompanying video is illustrative. The official TEDx video will be available here when released. There was no teleprompter so the actual spoken word will vary.) Living with 750, I learnt to fight
[Stress has been part of the recipe of human survival and growth. A ‘manageable’ level of stress acts as a motivator and while an ‘unmanageable’ level of stress is dysfunctional. And that is the relationship between stress and success or failure. Stress causes motivation to be high and higher performance, that generally will lead