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Ideation and Entrepreneurship: Interview with Liz Alexander and Naveen Lakkur

QAspire

The whole idea came from the fact that one of the co-founders, Phanindra Sama, wasn’t able to buy a ticket to travel back to his home town during a major festival. In fact, we quote his co-founder, Charan Padmaraju in the same chapter who said, “It was all about building something that would be useful to someone.”

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Leaders, Choose Your Words Wisely

Harvard Business Review

My professor, Ram Charan, noticed that my schoolwork was starting to slip. I was traveling to my home in Northern New Jersey for the Fourth of July weekend. For instance, when I was a first year graduate student at the J. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University taking a Management Policy class.