How entrepreneurs learn

Listening to an entrepreneur narrate the highs and lows of his journey may be the easy part

“We’d like to inculcate start-up or entrepreneurial thinking inside our firm.” One hears this refrain a lot these days from big established firms across industries. That’s a shift from four years ago, when CEOs of large established firms would struggle to understand the mindset of young start-up founders. And at Nasscom events, it was equally common to see start-up founders being mobbed by young techies. And the same audience would promptly leave the hall if a CEO of a large, successful software company came in to present.

We’ve obviously travelled a fair bit from those days. And there are enough