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Why startups fail? “No market need” is the primary reason

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A recent report – analyzed and published by CBInsights -( @Anand Sanwal, Founder – CEO, grew his daily newsletter to half a million subscribers simply by providing extremely high value, every day*). In this post mortem which is a follow up of an earlier analysis into the data of startup death, found that 70% of tech companies failed within 20 months of raising, on an average, $1.3mn. For hardware startups the demise rate is 97% (chances of becoming a Unicorn, on the other hand, is 1%).

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AI and its merger with Bio-tech – be worried.

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It is not AI that you need to worry about. It is the coming merger of AI and Bio-tech.

Right now the data simply provides our action based information to large corporations and governments, what we like, where we do, what we buy, so on and so forth. But we still have the sanctuary of our body and mind. With the merging of AI and Bio-tech this information reach of the external agencies will be inside us and they will know things about us that we didn’t know ourselves.

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Sleep. Seriously. It is one of the most important aspects of our life

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Mathew Walker, a neuroscientist and Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging lab and Sleep scientist at Google makes a definitive case for Sleeping right and why you should care. In his 2018 much acclaimed book ‘Why We Sleep : Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams’ (Tomasz Tunguz lists it amongst his 10 favorite books in 2018) he presents facts and painstakingly covers multiple studies to offer a compelling case to pay attention and urgently fix your sleeping issues.

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Attention Residue is killing our ability to do meaningful work. Multitasking is a myth.

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Prof Sophie Leroy, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, conducted two experiments where she found that people are less productive when they are multitasking or switching between tasks. In her 2009 research paper published as “Why is it so hard to do my work?…” : her abstract states : “…people need to stop thinking about one task in order to fully transition their attention and perform well on another. Yet, results indicate it is difficult for people to transition their attention away from an unfinished task and their subsequent task performance suffers.”

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Team or Money?

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Today I attended a TiE meeting in Bangalore, featuring Prashanth (PV) Boccasam and Madan Padaki. The Topic was “Leveling Up about StartUps and Upstarts”. In the initial part of the program Prashanth narrated his choice of first job out of college, between IBM (offer of 76K) and Microsoft (33k).

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