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Sneha Biswas - Jamshedpur Girl

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  Sneha Biswas • Following Founder & CEO, Early Steps Academy | Harvard MBA | IIT Kharagpur 1h • 1 hour ago How to create an upward trajectory in your career? It’s true that looking back the dots connect, but should you just nosedive into the dark when you are moving forward? ABSOLUTELY NOT! Over the last several years, I have taken certain intentional steps to plan out how I want my career to look like. What do I look for? Here I am sharing my personal 3 step guide: 1. #career vs. #job 🤷‍♀️ I have focused on my career, not my job. Over a 40-year career, your jobs, companies, roles and even sectors will change, but it’s the same Y...

Vineeta Singh and husband Sugar Cosmetics

  Both my parents worked & I left home at 17, so didn’t get a whole lot of time with them. However, it was the 3 simple things they reinforced over and over that ended up making the greatest difference to my life: 1) Ambition is good. For girls too! 2) Good things take time, patience & a lot of hard work. 3) Health is the real wealth. _____________________________________ Vineeta : "Are we ready for this?" Asked ourselves this 10 years back When we were contemplating starting up again After founding startups earlier that had failed to scale Asked ourselves this 7 years back When the company was struggling to stay afloat And we somehow poured all our learnings Of the first three years - into one unlikely decision To try and launch a brand in this space SUGAR Cosmetics Asking ourselves this today again As we head out this weekend For our largest offsite retreat till date "Are we ready for this?" ... Over the last 10 years of building this company If there...

Small business - how to start

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  Doubling Up As Delivery Boy And Domestic Helper For His Wife's Business, This Man From IIM Kozhikode Shares Business Advice! access_time 3 min read 07 Jul 2022 Follow us keyboard_arrow_up Table of content:  Starting from scratch and being successful The secret sauce for success Can a small business initiative survive in a monopolistic market? It certainly can, if one knows what your customers actually want. Here is the story of Sachin Ahuja, an IIM Kozhikode student, whose wife pulled off setting up her cloud kitchen during the COVID pandemic-induced lockdown!  Ahuja’s wife managed to launch her cloud kitchen during the COVID lockdown successfully! As he now sees his wife’s business flourish, Sachin has some words of wisdom for aspiring entrepreneurs.  Starting from scratch and being successful Sachin Ahuja describes himself as a marathoner, cyclist, author, and father on his LinkedIn bio. On 3rd July, Sachin posted about the second anniversary of his ...