Sukshma

I had the good fortune of being the Guest Editor for the quarterly newsletter of The Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter. The newsletter, titled DeskTalk recently won the National Newsletter Award.

The theme for this edition was Entrepreneurship and we managed to put together an interesting set of articles on various aspects of the startup ecosystem. Authors included both first time and established entrepreneurs, from Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, and the US. Through my guest editorial I attempted to introduce the 700+ CSI members in Pune to forums such as Pune Open Coffee Club and Pune Tech.

A big thank you to my co-founder Santosh, for urging me to do this, helping me with the writing and articles, and picking up my slack at work

You can download the soft copy of DeskTalk on the CSI Pune website.

~Anjali

I’m working on a short article on what motivates entrepreneurs.

The right challenge or adventure. Or is it just necessity-driven entrepreneurship? The right challenge inspires Microsoft’s “Our Software on every PC”, Google’s “Renewable energy cheaper than coal” and many other entrepreneurial initiatives that have changed the world.

The right friends to work with. The starting team is everything. They must embody the Startup Mantra for themselves in different and yet coherent ways.

Above all, Responsibility to oneself.

As it turns out, Startups need a perfect combination of these three ingredients to succeed. For instance, Startups know that they have to set insane goals - or Mantra’s in order to make sense of the effort involved in starting from scratch.

What motivates you?

~ Santosh