You don’t find startup ideas. You grow into them. When people ask how to get startup ideas, the default assumption is that ideas are like treasure hidden somewhere, waiting to be discovered. The reality is very different. In fact, the best startup ideas don’t come from trying to “think” of ideas at all. They come […]

Let me be honest, I didn’t wake up one day with a fancy startup idea. But, what I did have was something way more powerful, clarity of purpose. I had reached a point in my life where everything I loved doing just clicked i.e. reading, writing, creating, sharing and giving. It felt like my passion, […]

It happened on the midnight of 31st December. While the world was busy counting down to fireworks, parties, and resolutions; I was quietly whispering goodbye… To a life I no longer felt alive in. That night, I didn’t just leave a job. I left the identity I had worn for years. The applause, the achievements, […]

Most people think Venture Mozart was born January this year. It wasn’t. Actually It was felt… two years ago when I was leading StartInUP: the startup mission of Government of Uttar Pradesh. A thousand founders, one realisation As part of that role, I had the privilege to meet more than a thousand startup founders one-on-one […]