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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 8, 20142 min read
Idea behind Startup Pundit
Over the last few years, I seeked advice and mentorship from various senior and kind leaders in the capital markets and technology...
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Kunal Nandwani
Jul 9, 20142 min read
Why you should not join a Growth Stage Start-up…
Having done 2000+ final round interviews (for shortlisted candidates) in the last 3 years, we have had several discussions with...
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Kunal Nandwani
Mar 17, 20142 min read
Why High Internet Valuation misguides the Entrepreneur Focus
Entrepreneurship is booming around the world. This decade will witness most start-up firms ever in the history of mankind. The balance of...
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Kunal Nandwani
Feb 4, 20143 min read
Chosing Partner Clients in Start-up’s Growth Stage
It’s a good situation for a start-up to have built a product / service and have some live / beta client(s) to work with. If proven, the...
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Kunal Nandwani
Oct 26, 20132 min read
Managing Start-ups in Growth Phase
It’s a brave move for entrepreneurs to move from any “comfortable” career path to start a start-up. Some of those with lot of hard work...
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Kunal Nandwani
Aug 18, 20136 min read
First-time Entrepreneurs, Be Aware of these 50 Things
Business Planning Don’t make a business plan where you target to get a few percentage points of a multi-million of billion market, and...
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Kunal Nandwani
Aug 18, 20134 min read
NSEL crisis – Mini Version of US subprime crisis in Indian capital markets
The US subprime crisis in 2007 had shaken the foundation of US economy and eventually the global economy. Subprime loans (loans for...
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Kunal Nandwani
Jun 18, 20135 min read
Social Benefits of HFT and Algo Trading: Regulators should Embrace them
The tremendous growth in financial trading volumes in the last couple of decades has been made possible only with the use of technology....
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Kunal Nandwani
May 29, 20132 min read
8 Reasons why Engineers can become Good Entrepreneurs
As we know that some successful entrepreneurs are drop outs from various colleges, its definitely not a pre-requisite though. Many...
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Kunal Nandwani
Feb 27, 20133 min read
Letting Someone Go in a Start-up
Good teams increase the probability of a start-up success. The start-up team includes its co-founders, employees, investors and board...
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Kunal Nandwani
Feb 9, 20134 min read
An Entrepreneur’s Decision-Making Process and Next Best Alternatives
Arguably, time is the most important commodity in a start-up, and not Funds. You cannot raise more time. As an entrepreneur, you will...
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Kunal Nandwani
Feb 4, 20132 min read
Lessons Entrepreneurs can Learn from Kids
Adults are typically biased and afraid of more things than they need to be. Entrepreneurs can draw a lot of inspiration from the behavior...
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Kunal Nandwani
Jan 5, 20133 min read
Entrepreneurs: Know Your Customers, and that They Don’t Know…
It’s paramount for entrepreneurs to know and understand their customers. The customer relationship can help grow business as well as...
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Kunal Nandwani
Dec 3, 20123 min read
Sharing a Start-up Idea
I have met several aspiring entrepreneurs who feel very possessive about their idea. They want to get feedback, business advice, opinion...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 26, 20124 min read
Open Source Technology for Financial Services
Financial Services play an important role in the countries’ and their economies’ functioning. Following the credit crisis (2008), and its...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20123 min read
Algo Trading: The 1-O-1
Electronic trading in the last decade has laid the foundation for increased use of technology in the financial markets. If a trader’s...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20122 min read
Basics of Financial Trading
In finance, trade is typically an exchange of a financial security (share, bond, etc.) with cash. (To understand more around how...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20122 min read
Electronic trading
Trading process has evolved over time. An individual or an institution needs to trade through a broker who is a member of the exchange....
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 18, 20122 min read
Dark Pools
Financial exchanges are the market places where buyers and sellers of financial securities trade (buy and sell). The exchanges have...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 13, 20123 min read
Failure in a Start-up
Every start-up has some objectives. Success, though subjective, is one of the core reasons why many start-ups come into existence. While...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 13, 20123 min read
Pivoting in a Start-up
The business plan in a start-up evolves very frequently. Mostly the market, customers, product requirements would move in an ever...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 13, 20122 min read
Inspiring the Start-up team
A start-up’s success is mostly directly linked to the combined performance of its team. Hiring a good team is important, but how they...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 3, 20123 min read
Questions you can ask a Start-up before Joining
If you have worked in larger organizations for some time, you would realize how much political it gets and how your growth gets limited...
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Kunal Nandwani
Nov 3, 20123 min read
Administrative Challenges of Running a Start-up in India
Challenges of running a start-up in India: India ranks around 130th in the world bank rankings of world bank’s ease of doing business...
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