India

We meet Rishi Kapal, an India based author of Kites in a Hurricane, a Transitions and Entrepreneurship Specialist, and the Managing Partner of Global Scaleup. He shares a story of a lockdown where the workload increased a lot. With regards to the startup ecosystem, companies in the E-health, Education, Energy, E-commerce, Entertainment and Cybersecurity started to get more attention. So the key milestones had to be achieved much faster than planned. He shares his view on the competition, which over the lockdown has turned into Co-opetition - coordinating, collaborating and helping people at large. On the other front, where he helps professionals to transition from a corporate managerial position to an independent entrepreneur, it has been busy too as many job lines are declining. Rishi’s main recommendations are to create transferable skills and develop resilience to do things with your own hands. He mentions that the key thing that people are looking for in an advisor is whether they really helped anyone and if they did what happened to those people. They want to see real-life use cases.