Founder conflict at startup
This is a tough situation and if it’s any consolation, a fairly common one. The truth is that as a company grows, the team that was right for......
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3 steps to building company culture
3 steps to building company culture. Here goes, Anshila
1. Define the values that will help you achieve your busine......
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No one in our company knows what our vision, mission or values are. We are starting an employee engagement program. Do we need to relook at them?
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Sadly vision, mission and values are often pompous, generic strings of words that have little use beyond adorning an office wa......
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Meeta Malhotra
I work at the intersection of design, brand and technology. Over the last few years, I have added mindfulness to the mix in an attempt to understand how we can be the best version of ourselves.
A closet geek, I started my career with Infosys when they were just starting up. I was one of two partners at Ray+Keshavan, a brand and design consultancy, before its acquisition by WPP-owned Brand Union in 2006. I co-founded KineticGlue, a social enterprise platform that was acquired by BMC Software in 2013. I am currently co-founder at startup No 3, which will bring two unique brands from India to global markets. Varana, an East-meets-West fashion and lifestyle brand (www.varanaworld.com) and Almora, a personal care brand based on Contemporary Ayurveda (www.almorabotanica.com). I am also an active angel investor and advisor with Kstart, Kalaari Capital’s seed stage fund.
What we need right now are less ivory-tower discussions and more voices from the trenches. This site is an attempt to share whatever knowledge I have gained. Be it branding or mindfulness and meditation, the caveat is that it must be something I have actually practiced and not mere theory. If you have a question, send it in and I’ll do my best to answer it.