Costs and benefits are different for customers and innovators because of inertia
Innovators and customers view “benefits” and “costs” from very different perspectives. Missing this...
Author: Dr Aniruddha Malpani
Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD, is an IVF specialist and the medical director of Malpani Infertility Clinic in Mumbai. He founded HELP, the world's largest free patient-education library, and Malpani Ventures, an angel fund backing early-stage Indian startups. He has authored several books on patient empowerment and writes here on IVF, entrepreneurship and education.
Innovation needs an Ecosystem
Co-innovation Risk can be a major reason for failure, because you can’t do...
Why Things Go Wrong Even When You Do Everything Right
It is always easy to critique failure after the fact, but it is...
Entrepreneurs = Value creators
We can only consider something to be entrepreneurship by its results. Actual value...
Why it’s impossible to predict which startups will succeed
Entrepreneurship always surprises us; it is always baffling. It is always difficult to...
To be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be able capture value for yourself
Knowing when and how to turn created into captured value is one of...
Entrepreneurship = adversity + human capital
Entrepreneurship = adversity + human capital Startups grew not just despite the obstacles,...
Adversity tests the founder’s mettle
Not every startup deserves to survive. Dr Malpani on why adversity is the real test of a founder's mettle.
Why the risky approach is the safe one!
Ironically, the really safe approach would be to take what appeared to be...
How we are failing our children – education kills creativity
Education kills creativity. Two psychologists, Teresa Amabile and Beth Hennessey, devoted decades of...