Sep 20, 2013

The world-is-flat meme dismisses location as irrelevant because companies can start anywhere and reach employees and customers at any time of day via e-mail, text, voice, and video. However, my research suggests that where you locate your start-up matters tremendously; it can influence whether you succeed or fail. Location matters to start-ups because the people...

Sep 14, 2013

In a world in which consumption becomes far more mindful it is the social purpose companies that win. It is the businesses from the heart and not only from the mind that win. And overall it is not the more but the better that wins. Ever since the outbreak of the global financial crisis there has been a 50%-decline in consumer trust in corporations. Consumer...

Say you are running late to a meeting with a friend. You would simply communicate the delay to your friend through a text / call. But what if your friend is blind and can’t read? According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired, of which 39 million are people blind[i]. Sumit Dagar has a breakthrough solution to...

Jun 26, 2013

“It’s like saying, I gave Stacy a pen, therefore she’s a journalist,” said ZestFinance CEO Douglas Merrill at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference this March. We’re not automatically great decision makers just because we have big data. In fact, the hazards of relying strictly on data to make decisions have received a good amount of press, including a...

Jun 16, 2013

During the month of March, nearly a hundred MBA candidates from MIT Sloan visited Silicon Valley to visit 62 companies, ranging from very early stage companies to titans like Google and Facebook.  We learned that the Bay Area is thriving and picturesque, but would our MBA open doors?  Or are Silicon Valley startups so focused on building cool products that...