My book “Startup to Proficorn” has been published.
- The Making of my Book
- Book website
- Amazon.in, Amazon.com
- Feedback: Part 1, Part 2
Interviews
- Govindraj Ethiraj (The Core)
Book excerpts
- Scroll: Entrepreneur Rajesh Jain suggests ways to build profitable businesses without external funding
- New Indian Express: Road to entrepreneurship has more thorns than roses
- ThePrint: Startup founders must imitate ideas rather than waste time on innovation
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On Netcore’s journey
- Building an Enduring Great Company
- Netcore as an Enduring Great Company
- Bootstrapping a $100 Million ARR SaaS Company: The Netcore Story
- Interview with Nathan Latka
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Writings from 2020-21
I have written earlier about my experiences as an entrepreneur in building two proficorns (IndiaWorld 1995-2000 and Netcore 1998-now). A proficorn is a company that is private, profitable, promoter-bootstrapped and highly valuable ($100 million or more in valuation).
My Proficorn Way
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- Like the Feeling
- Journey not Money
- Open-sourcing Ideas
- Living in the Future
- The Profits Flywheel
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- 6-10
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- Explore and Experiment
- Passion Wins
- Learning to Learn
- Delegate to Grow
- Life’s Daily Clue
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- 11-15
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- No Two Bad In a Row
- Forever Mindset
- Never Compromise Integrity
- Dealing with Failure
- The Sub-broker Moment
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- 16-20
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- An Advisory Board
- Me-Time
- Entry and Exit
- Punctuality
- Tracking Cashflow
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- 21-25
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- Making Notes
- Chase Profits Not Valuation
- One Meeting, One Idea
- Blogging
- Giving Up
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- 26-30
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- Optimising Costs
- Avoid Equal Co-founders
- Imitate First, Innovate Later
- Delta Dollar Decision Rule
- Just Get Started
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- 31-35
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- Circle of Competence
- A Compass, not a Map
- Live Life Forward
- Book Club
- Disagree and Commit
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- 36-40
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- Entrepreneurship vs Investing
- Latticework of Mental Models
- The Moat
- Worst Case Scenario
- Ego as the Enemy
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- 41-45
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- The Monkey Problem
- Talk not Text
- Margin of Safety
- Debt can Kill
- Reflection
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- 46-50
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- Work-life Balance
- Creating Options
- Today and Tomorrow
- The One Number
- Inflection Points
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- 51-55
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- Failures
- Strategy as Choices
- Pivots
- Hiring a CEO
- Stock Options
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- 56-60
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- Flow
- Steps and Stones
- Culture
- New Growth Platforms
- Acquisitions
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- 61-65
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- Return on Capital: 10-20-30
- Rule of 100
- Where to Invest
- Mountains beyond Mountains
- When Things Go Wrong
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- 66-70
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- Every Idea Is a Failure Until…
- Competition
- Know the Law
- Leadership Transition
- Three Horizons
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- 71-75
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- Startup Capital
- Growth Capital
- To Raise or Not
- First Hires
- Product-Market Fit
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- 76-80
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- The IndiaWorld Idea
- The Khoj-Khel-Bawarchi-Samachar Ideas
- The Niti Idea
- The Netcore Idea
- Saying No
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- 81-85
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- Hiring and Onboarding
- After the Exit
- A Different Journey
- Looking Ahead
- The Obituary Question
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- 86-90
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- From Employee to Entrepreneur – 1
- From Employee to Entrepreneur – 2
- Bootstrapping a Business – 1
- Bootstrapping a Business – 2
- Bootstrapping a Business – 3
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- Crucible Experiences – 1
- Crucible Experiences – 2
- Crucible Experiences – 3
- Markets as Menaka
- 100X Disasters
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- 96-100
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- Focus on Non-consumption, not Competition
- Rethinking Assumptions – 1
- Rethinking Assumptions – 2
- 20 Mile March
- A Century
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