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The Infant Learner

Some stuff I read this week:

A.  This week’s Special

The Rise and Fall of Rajat Gupta ( Wall Street Journal )
Meet the man who is Rajat Gupta’s antithesis ( Scroll )
Rajat Gupta’s fund struggles ( mint )

B. Entrepreneurial Diary

( “Business means solution of a particular problem and Creating value for customer as well as value  for company ” – Paramjeet Redu )

In Technology, Small Fish (Almost Always) Eat Big Fish (Stanford)
The Arc of Company Life – and How to Prolong It (First round)
How I Became My Own Boss By Age 25 ( Forbes )
How Amol Yadav built an aircraft on his terrace ( Better India )
Start up Story : SnapBizz: Fuelling retailers’ margins in a snap ( Business Standard )
Start up Story: Mast Kalandar (Your Story)

C. Other Stories

What an Aadhar-enabled future may look like (The Wire )
Share Registrar Sharepro commits fraud (Money control )
Warren Buffett on market bubble ( Yahoo Finance )
Tata Group needs a new cash cow ( Mint )
Renault-Nissan Six Business partnership failed due to poor execution ( BS )
Pune Property Case Study:Suyog Nisarg,Wagholi ( Ravi karandeep )
What we know about Donald Trump’s money ( CNN Money )
Government cuts interest rate on small savings schemes:-

“I read everything: annual reports, 10k’s, 10q’s, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes, I read the instructions on the backs of seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time” – Warren Buffett

“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you” – Charlie Mungar

You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better”-  Carol Dweck