Overthrowing the incubation regime November 24, 2009
Posted by Sunil Malhotra in Business, Entrepreneurship, Everything 2.0, Heart Capital©, Incubation, Innovation, Mentoring, Thought leadership, heart capital.Tags: Business and Economy, business incubation, entrepreneurism, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship 2.0, fish, funding, Government, Incubation, India, India 2.0, Innovation 101, Leadership, Mentoring, support, Thought leadership, United States, Venture capital
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From an earlier post Business Incubation 101 that forms the preamble of my incubation idea. Thanks for all the offers of support – shows me that the idea resonates with many.
1. First bring the academia out of the safety of the cocoons we’ve woven around them. Have them check out what the world looks like. Today’s world. Today’s India.
2. Next, focus towards incubating ‘people’. They should be the real focus. Find real mentors. People that have been in the entrepreneurial world even if they have failed. They are the best teachers. Not professors of colleges. Don’t talk about incubating business. Leave that to the Western world.
3. Next, teach people to fish. No point in teaching fishing in your living room aquarium. At least walk them out to a brook. Pick up all the university incubation centres and physically put them off campus. That’s where the world exists. Not in the time warped government funded institutes.
Entrepreneur-ism is not socialistic. And capitalism doesn’t necessarily mean greedy or mercenary - especially in the context of India’s ethos. Make entrepreneurship an attractive lifestyle and stop being condescending irrespective of the preamble of our constitution. That goes for all those holier-than-thou bankers and VC’s.
Let’s cut our noses. Yes Prime Minister! October 31, 2009
Posted by Sunil Malhotra in Copenhagen, Global Warming, Nature, Sustainability, Sustainable Innovation, climate change, environment.Tags: Carbon emissions, climate change, Economic development, environment, Globalization, Greenhouse gas, India, Indian economy, Indian environment, International Energy Agency, Jairam Ramesh, Monsoon, United States
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Two of my favourite subjects here – the fascinating global warming debate and India’s bollywood style negotiation script. Hopenhagen is around the corner and will make Kyoto passe. We love being underdogs because like our movies, the hero comes from behind in a good-over-evil victory lap while the crowd applauds his heroic antics.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, and I fully intend the pun.
US spews Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere when India sleeps. [Pat on back .. I'm getting good at puns]Now India wants America to pay for their long and sinful polluting behaviour. And guess what, if they don’t, we’ll have an equal right to kill the planet first so we’re even. That’s the craziest example of serving our self interests I’ve come across. It’s almost like saying that since I just found out that my neighbour has been raping my mother for 20 years, the way to punish him is by killing my own mother. (more…)
Business Incubation 101 (India) August 18, 2009
Posted by Sunil Malhotra in Business, Entrepreneurship, Everything 2.0, Globalisation, Heart Capital©, Innovation, Innovation 101, Thought leadership, heart capital.Tags: bankers, Business and Economy, business incubation, entrepreneurism, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship 2.0, fish, funding, Government, IITs, India, Innovation 101, United States, Venture capital
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This post is India centric.
Thinking lag is a serious condition. I remember how the older folks used to tell us ‘in our times things were so much cheaper’. Look at how the Government patronises unsuspecting academia and students by announcing Goals 2020 and supports it with Funding 1920. It’s not even smart political thinking. Call it Politicalaggard thinking.
Mayawati will spend Rs. 2000 crores (USD 400 million) dotting the UP countryside with ego-stroking statues of herelf and her mock leather handbags while the Government announces 1 crore for business incubation. Here …
The government has now formulated a scheme to set up around 100 incubators in the country to encourage the development of new businesses. It has earmarked a budget of Rs 1.13 crore for 2007-08 for providing grants to 50 universities and training institutes for setting up these incubators!
[read the original evangelising here]. And don’t miss ‘proud’ exclamation mark. (more…)
What do Birth control and Literacy have to do with Climate Change August 11, 2009
Posted by Sunil Malhotra in Innovation, Nature, Sustainability, Thought leadership, Wisdom of the leaders, climate change.Tags: Arrogance, Birth control, Capitalism, Carbon footprint, climate change, Greed, holier than thou, inconvenient truth, literacy, Nature, political innovation, population, religious conversion, religious fanaticism, Sustainability, Sustainable retreat, United States, Western Thought
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Now that you’ve fallen prey to my catchy title, don’t be fooled - the connections are not so remote as they appear at first glance. For those who have guessed, don’t spoil the fun.
Going by all known accounts, research information and the seemingly urgent political summits on the horizon – no points for guessing – climate change is being caused and accelerated only by one single species, humankind. So if stricter birth laws could be enforced, less human beings would be allowed to come into our planet and therefore would do less damage. (This would not hold if you included investment bankers and Nobel economists as being a part of humankind).
Here’s a sample from my proposed enactment -
“The Birth Control and Literacy for Climate Change Act, 2009″.
Article 12: Whereas the minority religions of the world seek to remove all obstacles (including, but not limited to, the outdated institution of marriage) for bringing into this world;
(a) by conscious, unconscious or accidental act of momental ecstasy, and(b) performed between two or more persons of same (Section 377 of IPC) or opposite sexes; and
(c) through physical or artifical means,
such an occurence may be permitted a maximum of 2 times in the lifetime of each of the persons involved, jointly or severally without exception.
And as for my literacy angle, it’s simple enuff … really! (more…)
Climate Change Bollywood ishtyle August 7, 2009
Posted by Sunil Malhotra in Culture, Design, Everything 2.0, Globalisation, Innovation, Leadership Innovation, Nature, Politics, Sustainability, climate change, kleptocracy.Tags: An Inconvenient Truth, Brand India, Capitalism, climate change, demise of capitalism, Ethics, Greed, India, India and China, Kyoto Protocol, Materialism, Sustainable retreat, Thought leadership, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United States, Western Thought
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Let’s use the standard Hindi movie formula of circa 1980 to script our earth’s climate story. Enter Superstar US. The virtuous, street smart, Robin Hood inspired protagonist of our story, replete with his coterie of jazz dancers. And then there’s the poor guy, India. Always trying to emulate the “hero” and competing with him for the “herione’s” attention in college settings. Let’s throw in some masala – subplots, love triangles and the very popular song and dance sequences – with the extras doing their own thing while they dance in the third row.
Quick Gun Murugan
Now compare this with whatever we’ve been seeing in the Climate Change discussions. See the script accurately playing itself out? (Nobody seems to want to ask mother Earth for her point of view). Call it clairvoyance or just plain sensitivity, some of us have been seeing it coming since the mid nineties. Even we couldn’t have guessed the speed of deterioration, although fully knowing the bounty hunter tendencies of the US, we should have been able to. Easily. Shame on us!
Some simple facts from Prem Shankar Jha’s Tehelka article, An Earth On Edge.
1. Till as recently as five years ago, abrupt climate change was on the unthinkable fringe of possibilities predicted by climate scientists. In March 2009, 2,500 scientists from 80 countries assembled at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen. The congress concluded that the findings of the IPCC were out of date. The evidence collected since its fourth report was compiled showed that global warming was ceasing to be human-induced and was becoming self-reinforcing. (more…)
