‘You have to be a continuous learning machine’ – 30 quotes from Indian startup journeys
From learning to leadership, witness the memorable journey of Indian entrepreneurship in these excerpts and stories! StoryBites is a weekly feature from YourStory, featuring notable quotable quotes in our articles of this past week (see the previous post here). Share these 30 gems and insights from the week of September 11-17 with your colleagues and networks, and check back to the original articles for more insights.
Do not treat funding as a goal but as an enabler to achieve something bigger. - Rutvik Doshi, Inventus India
Sectors like e-commerce consume a lot of capital. They have to lose money to dominate the market. - Mohandas Pai, investor
Once you start to think about monetising, the DNA of the company changes. - Anand Lunia, India Quotient
The car is now an operating system. - Christian Senger, Volkswagen
By 2019, over 80 percent of the world’s internet traffic will be driven by video. – Cisco report
Every year, more than 10,000 franchise investors sign franchises in India, and 30-35 percent are within F&B industry. - Karan Tanna, Yellow Tie Hospitality Management
In Bengaluru, the joke goes that almost every other apartment has a startup founder. In Jabalpur, not as much – maybe two big startups in the entire city. - Rajeev Tamhankar, TBS Planet
Moving our clock ahead by 30 minutes will have tremendous economic, social, and health benefits. - Faisal Farooqui, MoreSunlight.in
Big data analytics should focus on the poor and underprivileged and facilitate inclusive growth. - Ravi Shankar Prasad, IT Minister
Online lending has the advantage of reaching the farthest corners of the map – a huge opportunity that will boost the growth of SME and MSME segments. - Nitin Agarwal, InCred
Digital is the fastest-growing medium in the country today, and has been growing at 35-50 percent every year. - Sam Balsara, Madison World
There are no large-scale logistics players focused on furniture. - Nandita Sinha, Flipkart
You have to solve the problem even if the infrastructure is not in place. - Darina Onoprienko, Next Big Thing
There are millions of people who die not because they were unable to find a cure to a rare disease, but because they could not find a plate of proper nutritious food. - Ankit Kawatra, Feeding India
The first thing that is physically visible to anyone on the streets of India is garbage. At least 90 percent of this garbage is disposable plastics. - Samanvi Bhograj, Earthware
There is no waste if managed in a responsible manner. - K.P. Singh, Rainbow Drive
WhatsApp has definitely become a preferred mode of communication for millions of people in our country. – Ravdeep Chawla, BookMyShow
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them. – Michelle Obama
It is hard to let go of something you have built from scratch. - Dimple Parmar, Appeti
The internet has changed the face of traditional forms of marketing, expanding a brand’s reach - both globally and hyper-locally. - Sumeet Singh, Info Edge
If you are going out to hire from the campus, pick up a few who have degrees in humanities. - Abhijit Bhaduri, The Digital Tsunami
Building a business or a brand takes a good amount of time and dedication for the goal. Growth doesn’t happen overnight. – Junaid Shahdhar, Phamb
Don’t expect the usual route or routine! - Ritu Goyal Harish, Ease India Travel
The start-ups that make it big are those that capture enough static patterns to avoid chaotic implosion. - Santanu Paul, TalentSprint
The trick is to keep on learning and continuously improving through controlled experimentation. You have to be a continuous learning machine. - Sanjay Swamy, Prime Venture Partners
What cannot be found, must be created. - Nibhrant Shah, Isprava
Donate love, we know everybody has it in full. - Raunak N Deb and Rhituraj Neog
Products are the way forward for Indian businesses. - Atul Jalan, Manthan
With good follow-up, a lot of positive things happen. - P. Narahari, DC
Tough times don’t outlast tough individuals. - T N Hari, BigBasket
YourStory has also published the pocketbook ‘Proverbs and Quotes for Entrepreneurs: A World of Inspiration for Startups’ as a creative and motivational guide for innovators (downloadable as apps here: Apple, Android).
