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This lively episode of the Podcast featured entrepreneur Sramana Mitra as well as Jouko from Grow VC and we discussed what entrepreneurship is all about. Also topical points were the development of the global economy, as well as the many challenges startups face, especially during the very early phases.

More information on Sramana can be found on her website sramanamitra.com.

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Here’s some great quotes from the episode:

“they have developed as a technology superpower in some sense, on the wings of out-sourcing” Sramana Mitra on India

“people don’t bootstrap enough. People are going out to raise money immediately, based on some very vague, very vague assumptions”

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Discussion points:

• High infant entrepreneur mortality
• Three central problems with starting entrepreneurs
• Capitalism is broken (Speculators versus value-creators)
• Unrealistic and idealistic models in the financial industry
• Developing India
• Are we making progress?

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Tags: Entrepreneur, Sramana Mitra, startup

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