by Rajan Singh | Oct 7, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
Can losing a job be an opportunity? I don’t want to sugarcoat or give a feel-good answer. But let me share a few experiences. When I was running my last startup, the first Covid lockdown forced us to shut shop. Within a week, we had no business, no revenue,...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 4, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
During the compulsory military training in Taiwan, recruits are seemingly trained with a singular objective – to pass the exams. When practicing the bayonet drill, you practice a chant for each movement, which is what they will test for in the exam. But unfortunately,...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 3, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
When I was leaving my last job to do a startup, my family asked me to reconsider because ‘doing business is not in our genes.’ Do genes predispose us toward some professions? At first blush, this hypothesis seems fairly tenable. In the US, I saw that a lot of motels...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 2, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
To put it politely – the startup world is messed up. Big time. And we need to fix it. In my last startup, when we were fundraising, we met a particularly aggressive (‘sharky’) investor. During our discussions, they constantly told us to follow the model of an investee...
by Rajan Singh | Oct 1, 2024 | LinkedIn Posts
In 1998, we went for our first counter-insurgency patrol in Nagaland very excitedly. We were a bunch of IPS trainees attached to an army unit fighting militancy. Unlike in the Police Academy, the dangers here were very real. So we put on heavy bulletproof vests and...
