Siddalingesh Dodamani

Six Fundamental Business Lessons Every Entrepreneur Can Learn From Walt Disney His success is all the more amazing when you learn how many times Walt Disney failed. Image credit: Hulton Archive | Getty Images Shawn Doyle   - GUEST WRITER Everyone knows Walt Disney. Almost everyone has been to a Disney park somewhere, seen a Disney movie (live action or a cartoon) or knows some Disney character. Some people even go on Disney cruises. Disney the man. I think in some ways people know more about Disney, fewer people about Disney the man. Walt Disney, the man, has somewhat faded into the background for many people. It is understandable since he died fifty-one years ago, in 1966. Walt was a visionary, an entrepreneur and a creative genius. There are some invaluable lessons every entrepreneur can learn from what he was able to accomplish in his life. 1. Never give up. Many people don’t know that Walt Disney was not an overnight success. He started several ...

6 Steps to Surviving 3 Years Nine out of 10 businesses fail within three years. Don't be one of them. Image credit: Shannon Fagan | Getty Images Ray Zinn   - GUEST WRITER The odds of your startup being around three years from now are not good. Statistics show that about nine of every 10 new businesses fail that quickly. Often, it isn’t from a lack of hard work or a great idea. The real downfall is a lack of discipline where it counts. Too often the basics -- knowing your market, having enough cash, establishing a healthy corporate culture -- are dumped into the "hope and pray" bucket. Related:  This Founder Shares Why In Order To Learn Fast, You Need to Fail Fast This is the folly of failure. A  marketing strategist I know  likes to put the concept in mathematical format: P(s) = 1 – P(f) This reads that the probability of success equals one minus the probability of failure. The smaller you make the right side of the equation, the more...

8 Tips to Become a Millionaire This Year Becoming rich has more to do with restraint and tenacity than it does brilliance or luck. Image credit: Shutterstock John Rampton   - ENTREPRENEUR VIP Millionaire. It’s a title that plenty of us would love to have. But, is that actually feasible? Believe it or not, becoming a millionaire is a goal that can be achieved this year. In my life, I have been a millionaire several times. Most of the time before my 30s I gambled it away on cars, homes and living a life I had no reason to be living. Despite blowing millions, the process to becoming a millionaire has been consistent over the years. If you follow these eight priceless pieces of advice, I can guarantee you that eventually you will become a millionaire. Here's to making this happen this year! 1. Develop a written financial plan. One of the main reasons why someone can never become a millionaire is because they haven’t written a  financial...

The Essential Recipe for a Successful Business Campaign Every campaign is unique in its details but all the successful ones share the same key ingredients. Image credit: Felbert+Eickenberg/STOCK4B | Getty Images Angela Ruth   - GUEST WRITER There  is  a recipe you can follow for  a successful campaign  that will satisfy your audience. While you may need to tweak some of the ingredients to add a new element -- each time you make this recipe, there's a good chance it will improve. Pinpointing the right part of your recipe (campaign) to bring out the flavor of your content or to build your following may need a pinch of this, or a dash of that but the recipe is still the same. As you improvise and make slight adjustments you'll encourage your readers to come back for another helping. To make your base campaign recipe, use the following ingredients: Target Audience This  marketing  campaign ingredient is critical...

1. Dino Morea After his career in Bollywood shrinked to being Bipasha's ex only, Dino started investing in other ventures. He opened up a chain of restaurant cum bar in   Mumbai which is doing pretty well. 2. Suniel Shetty After witnessing a soaring success his popularity started declining in the industry and then Suniel moved onto hospitality business. He owns a couple of gyms and restaurants in Mumbai. The actor also owns a famous club in Mumbai. 3. Twinkle Khanna Twinkle left Bollywood(for good, of course) right before she got married. She found her calling in interior designing and now runs a home decor company. She has authored two top-selling novels and also gets appreciated by readers for her weekly column in a leading daily. 4. Ronit Roy The actor can still be seen playing different roles in movies and TV shows but he's known in Bollywood for his security service provider company. The elite clientele of this company includes stars like Amitabh Bachchan...

Siddalingesh Dodamani: India's Top #7 Engineer-turned-entrepreneurs Who N... : 1. Vijay Shekhar Sharma Engineer-turned-entrepreneur  Vijay Shekhar Sharma  dreamt of becoming a billionaire when he was str...

1. Vijay Shekhar Sharma Engineer-turned-entrepreneur  Vijay Shekhar Sharma  dreamt of becoming a billionaire when he was struggling to make his ends meet with INR 10 in pocket. He now, owns a company, whose current valuation is over $3-billion in the market. The man behind India’s famous e-payment and e-commerce brand did his graduation apparently only to make his mother happy.     2. Bhavish Aggrawal To solve commuting problems that Indian office goers have to face every day, computer science graduates from IIT-Bombay  Bhavish Aggrawal  and  Ankit Bhati  launched  Ola Cabs  in India in 2007.  Born in Ludhiana, Aggarwal began his career at  Microsoft Research . In two years, he realized that the ‘9 to 5’ job was not his cup of tea and went on to create a technology platform to solve a problem that vexes most of urban Indians. The company has been funded by Japanese major  Soft Bank ...