Founder’s Dilemma on Dilution – Trade-Offs: Dilution Vs Control: One does not lose control of business so long as founders continue to deliver great outcomes, the relative power of Founders will always be higher vis-a-vis ownership. Besides legalese may help retain control to drive the destiny of biz. Dilution Vs Cash flow: Most often funds […]
I want to take this opportunity to share the Values of our enterprise and our views on how to interpret these Values: Fairness: Outcome should result in “win-win” for all stakeholders and not “win-lose” Acceptance: Respect diversity of views Imagination: Be Curious and find innovative ways to achieve the dreams Trust: Trust has two components […]
After spending time with the founders of Startups, somehow I do not find founders focussing on aligning personal goals and values with the Company goals/values. In my personal view in order to ensure harmony and minimize friction, it is extremely important to align personal aspiration and values with companies aspiration and values besides an alignment […]
The story behind my Firm’s Name Sarcha Advisors: Connecting the dots I had always believed that I could have done much more for my parents even though most family members believed I was a very obedient son. The guilt just vanished once I got a quote from one of my friend Manoj Kohli, that our […]
Framework 1 • Define the Higher Purpose of the organization. • Agree on Values: Set Goals, Milestones, priorities, and timelines. • Create Long term Sustainable Value Proposition for long terms success and identify critical success factors and capabilities required to achieve such milestones in a defined time frame. • Identify essential stakeholders in the Ecosystem […]
Recently one of my very close friends was involved in a car accident and he narrowly escaped. His car got hit from behind and it spun 180 degrees and he was facing the wrong way. He had the presence of mind to restart his car and turn his car around to avoid a head-on collision. […]
I had a chance to listen to Prof. CK Prahalad at the CII conference in 2007 and he was sharing his thoughts on how India can grow at double-digit. he was an amazing human being and a management guru. I am sharing key takeaways, which I remind myself in my prayers almost every day: His […]
I have been wondering if any institution has “Failure” as a core VALUE, despite most leaders of the new economy encourage people to fail and learn from that experience. I have struggled why Failure should not be a value, even though in order for us to be successful, we should never worry about Failure. Could […]
During my visit to Mumbai in October, I met with fund managers, most fund managers and some of the Gurus identified the price of oil (and $ /Rupee) as the single biggest risk to the markets. My experience of having seen commodity cycles and having been a trader (many years ago) was that Oil will […]
My first meeting with Ritesh Aggarwal of Oyo was 15 months ago, we have become good friends. I have tried to decipher his reasons for success, here are some takeaways from our interactions. Ritesh has a dream to get to 10% of the unorganized market in the hotel segment. He is very focussed on Growth […]