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What is the difference between Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship?
What is the difference between Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship?
By Rojin Nair
Contributions
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What do you do if you lack startup experience as a mid-career professional?
IMO, the biggest challenges people face moving from corporate roles to start-up environments are cultural change (speed, accountability & decision-making, title vs. readiness to do everything), fitting into a "chaos for a purpose environment", willingness to fail, etc. Understanding/experience in dealing with the constraints, hurdles, decision-making, etc. is key for switching to the the entrepreneurial land. Aside from the suggestion listed, I think people can always become intrapreneurs in their corporate environment and try practicing many aspects of entrepreneurship in a safe mode to the extent corporate boundaries allow, or take on a startup advisory role in the areas of their strength for learning (e.g. pro bono)
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What are the most effective scaling strategies for FinTech businesses?
Business model should be adaptable to the changes in market, economy, regulation, competition etc. The faster business can sense the changes, makes a decision to continue/pivot/change etc. will allow then to navigate the rough waters.
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What are the most effective scaling strategies for FinTech businesses?
Yes, before and after launching having a clear understanding of the problem and market will enable businesses to gauge the fit. Else it will be a solution looking for a problem and market. After launching the product roadmap should have 2 tracks, strategy driven and market demand driven. For market driven product roadmap ask your existing customers and prospects what they like to have and would they buy it. This will allow constantly to have a product-market alignment
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The real meaning translated from the original iPhone 16 presentation. 😂😂 Clearly shows how little Apple has innovated, which explained why the…
The real meaning translated from the original iPhone 16 presentation. 😂😂 Clearly shows how little Apple has innovated, which explained why the…
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“Better Growth” neobanks – the secret sauce for success Diversified revenue streams including lending and trading: Generating revenues beyond…
“Better Growth” neobanks – the secret sauce for success Diversified revenue streams including lending and trading: Generating revenues beyond…
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A departure from my usual LinkedIn posts. 🇧🇩 ❤️ For most of my life, I've felt like I didn't truly belong anywhere. Yet I know I won the lottery…
A departure from my usual LinkedIn posts. 🇧🇩 ❤️ For most of my life, I've felt like I didn't truly belong anywhere. Yet I know I won the lottery…
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Experience
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Education
Licenses & Certifications
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Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate
Stanford Center for Professional Development
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MIT Fintech: Future Commerce online course
MIT Experimental Learning
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Volunteer Experience
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Innovator, Mentor
World Economic Forum
- Present 3 years 8 months
https://uplink.weforum.org/
UpLink is a digital crowd-engagement platform that connects entrepreneurs and champions of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Its goal is to link-up the best SDG innovators to a growing network of experts and decision-makers who can implement the change needed for the next decade.
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Mentor
Coopérathon
- 1 year 2 months
Economic Empowerment
Cooperathon is the largest Open Innovation challenge in Canada. Its mission is to connect citizens, communities, entrepreneurs, researchers, academics & large institutions to develop, together, a socially responsible future.
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Courses
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Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
University of Calgary
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Benefit Realization & Result Chain Techniques
Fujitsu
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Big Data: Making Complex Things Simpler
MIT Sloan School of Mgmt
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Building Leading & Sustaining Innovative Organization
MIT Sloan School of Mgmt
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Business Intelligence
TDWI
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Critical Thinking and Decison making
University of Calgary
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Cultivating Entrepreneurial Mindset
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Demand Creation: The Secrets of Driving Growth
Stanford University
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Designing and Implementing Microsoft Analysis Services
Microsoft
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Developing and Managing a Successful Technology and Product Strategy
MIT Sloan School of Mgmt
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Dimensional Modeling by Ralph Kimball
Kimball University
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Enterprise Program & Portfolio Management
Fujitsu
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Financial Analysis and Planning
University of Calgary
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Hadoop Fundamentals
Big Data University
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IBM ES/9000 and AS/400
Pentafour
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IBM Websphere
IBM
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IMS Application Programming
IBM
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Innovative Tactics for Launching Your Product
Stanford University
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MS SQL Server Data Transformation Services
Microsoft
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Master Data Management
TDWI
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MicroStrategy Fast Track
Microstrategy
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Microprocessor Applications and Computer Hardware
MEC
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Microsoft Data Warehouse
Kimball University
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Multidimensional Database Designing and Optimizing
DCI
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OBIEE
Oracle
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PerformancePoint
Microsoft
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Reinventing Business Strategy
MIT Sloan School of Mgmt
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Relational Database Design
BC Institute of Tech
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Strategic Leadership
University of Calgary
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Universe Design and Web Intelligence
Business Objects
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Unix
BC Institute of Tech
Honors & Awards
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2019 Digital Finance Institute - Visa Entrepreneur / Innovation Leader of the Year Nominee
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