entrepreneur
also referred to as: entrepreneurs
40 statements across 33 episodes · 15 bullish · 6 bearish · 34 people on the record · first statement Jul 17, 2019 by Daljit Singh · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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Jul 17, 2019 positive
Singh: Scaling entrepreneurs must obsess over daily inputs, not 100-crore targets
“Remember one thing, that whilst the entrepreneur has set a goal of hundred crores in five years, you know, what he needs to focus on is the input to the business rather than being obsessed with the hundred crores. Yes, occasionally one needs to keep track that…”
Jul 22, 2019 neutral
Aug 15, 2019 neutral
Aug 15, 2019 positive
Shivani: Founders should view VC delays as genuine interest, not stringing along
“The fact that I am not saying no to you can, should be actually seen positively. Because, I can easily say no, you know. So, so therefore if I'm saying that, you know, we are interested, you know, get to a stage where we can, you know, relook at the opportunit…”
Sep 6, 2019 positive
Why Dr. Malpani prefers angel investing over cynical older doctors
“And I think if you read books which are optimistic, which have a positive spin, and that's one of the major reasons why I'm an angel investor. You know, as an old doctor, you hang out with other old doctors who are always complaining about the world is going t…”
Sep 6, 2019 positive
A founder's right to win comes from confident, counter-intuitive insights
“For entrepreneurs, we're really looking for people who have counter-intuitive insights. Someone who knows something, which he's very confident about, which no one else does. Because that's what really gives him the right to win.”
Sep 7, 2019 neutral
Aneja: Investors fail the moment they assume they know more than founders
“The moment we believe that we know anything more than the entrepreneurs in the market, we have failed. So the first lesson instilled out of that is, our entrepreneurs know more. So listen. Every meeting, even if you know the answer you think, you be quiet and …”
Sep 14, 2019 neutral
Sep 19, 2019 positive
Singh: Venture capitalists are kingmakers, but the entrepreneur is always the king
“You are always a mentor, or that somebody called it, you are a kingmaker, but never the king. I think automatically does make you less egoistic, because you know that eventually, you know, you are helping an entrepreneur succeed. Almost the first ownership of …”
Oct 6, 2019
Over-attachment causes bad founder decisions, while over-detachment drains fire
“I think if you get too attached, I think you take wrong decisions. If you get too detached also, you know, then the company lacks the passion and the fire of an entrepreneur, right? So I think balancing the two is definitely a difficult thing to do.”
Feb 12, 2020 neutral
Mar 9, 2020 negative
Founders building novel models should never treat investor rejection as validation
“Should not ever take an investors know as validation. That's the worst thing that you can ever do to a business because most investors look retrospectively. So they are looking at businesses that have been already proven. If you take validation from investors,…”
Mar 29, 2020
May 3, 2020 positive
A VC's greatest value add is emotional companionship during difficult situations
“Entrepreneurship is a very lonely journey. And within that, if you can make some friends and you can talk to each other in a very informal fashion so that Any inhibition or difficult situation that the entrepreneur is facing, you're able to talk out as friends…”
May 11, 2020
Gupta: Crisis Survival Requires Pragmatism That Contradicts The Passion VCs Seek
“When the crisis hits one of the things is to be pragmatic and non-emotional, right? Which is actually a contradictory quality to when we appraise entrepreneurs upfront where we want them to be passionate and all that. But they have to be sort of passionate and…”
May 11, 2020 neutral
Aug 16, 2020 negative
Aug 30, 2020 positive
Nexus often leads internal rounds to save founders from time-consuming fundraises
“First of all we are very protective of entrepreneurs time. And oftentimes we feel we are at a critical point in the company and going out in the market and spending time raising funding, which is time consuming. And it should be, people are putting their heart…”
Jan 12, 2021
Jan 12, 2021 positive
Kapoor: Entrepreneurs must never blame audiences when a product fails
“You can't say that the audience is wrong. I mean, as an actor, when you do a movie, it releases on Friday, it may fail on Saturday. And if you turn around and say the audience is stupid, they don't understand this movie then you, you're not really listening to…”
Jan 18, 2021 negative
Bahl: Fundraising and acquisitions are not true entrepreneurial milestones
“Most entrepreneurs lives are shaped by multiple small events and multiple smaller milestones than few large ones. We tend to associate, you may have noticed that I didn't point to any fundraise or any acquisition or any of those things as a milestone, because …”
Feb 23, 2021 positive
Apr 6, 2021
Founders at rock bottom must seek counsel from experienced mentors
“At that point, I think, you know, the thing that entrepreneur doesn't want to do is talk to somebody about it. Because you are feeling so low that I don't want to talk to somebody about it. But the thing you have to do, and this is true for personal situations…”
Aug 9, 2021 positive
Sep 20, 2021
Nov 29, 2021
Bansal: Evaluating emerging fund managers mirrors assessing startup founders
“So I think when one is investing behind an entrepreneur or a new fund manager one applies a similar lens. Are they doing it for the right reasons? What problem are they looking to solve? So is there a unique proposition? How well positioned are they? Do they h…”
Feb 14, 2022 positive
Rajesh Jain says every entrepreneur should open-source ideas via long-form writing
“I believe that I think every entrepreneur should write. It's not just the short witty posts on Twitter or LinkedIn. I think it should be deep thinking about the future. How is it that your mental models are? I mean, open source your ideas. Because when you giv…”
Jun 13, 2022 positive
Downturns Push Funded Startups to Cut Experiments, Easing Competition for Founders
“What would happen during this downturn or like if you have like the, for the next 12 to 24 months is that a lot of these larger companies or funded companies will be heavily focused on very sharp, focused on revenue generating products. Otherwise they would ha…”
Aug 23, 2022 negative
Makkar: VC skills do not translate to early-stage startup operations
“The skills that you learn in VCs are not really applicable to what you will do as an entrepreneur. And that became very clear to me very quickly. It was clear to me when I did consulting because none of what I did as an entrepreneur You know, outside of like, …”
Aug 25, 2023 positive
Chopra: Successful Entrepreneurs Are Happy But Perennially Dissatisfied With The World
“You can be terribly happy, but you're perennially dissatisfied by the state of the world. I think that's a good state to be in, where, ah, you dealing these two things, you're completely happy on day to day world, ah, day to day sense, but you're not really gi…”
Aug 25, 2023
Aug 25, 2023 neutral
Chopra: Most Founders Start Companies To Prove Themselves To Parents
“Most I feel most people start companies because they want to prove to their parents, That they can sort of, I think generally, I mean, if you go in the deep into, why would people want to, society, I mean, like general expectations. Like as growing up, maybe t…”
Aug 25, 2023 negative
Chopra: Unhappy founders give up too soon when encountering startup barriers
“In fact, you'll be a terrible entrepreneur if you're unhappy. You'll just give up too soon. It's just so hard. Unless you are enjoying your job day to day, you'll just give up in the first instance of a barrier, and you'll say, I don't like this.”
Sep 22, 2023 positive
Apr 13, 2024 neutral
Aug 2, 2024
Clifford: Global founders have more in common with each other than non-entrepreneur compatriots
“The funny thing is entrepreneurs are so different from the rest of the population everywhere that I actually think that the entrepreneurs across the four sites Even though they're such different countries, they have more in common with each other than they do …”
May 23, 2025 negative
Jan 23, 2026 neutral
Jun 26, 2026 positive
Subramanian: Board members add value through emotional detachment, not domain expertise
“That's where I think boards and investors and as an external parties can be really good advisors, not because they know the business, because they are outside the business. The emotions are not connected to the business, where you're able to bring very unemoti…”