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Who are we?
Founding Fuel aims to create the new playbook of entrepreneurship. Think of us as a hub for entrepreneurs- the go-to place for ideas, insights, practices and wisdom essential to build the enterprise of tomorrow. It is co-founded by veteran journalists Indrajit Gupta and Charles Assisi, along with CS Swaminathan, the former president of Pearson's online learning venture.
Who do we want to serve?
Anybody with an entrepreneurial mind set, imbued with ambition, passion to learn and keen to become a high-performance entrepreneur. If that sounds like you, you are part of the Founding Fuel community.
What do we hope to do?
Founding Fuel will use the latest digital tools for media and learning to serve content, learning solutions and a curated marketplace for entrepreneurial products and services.
Who is supporting the venture?
Our high-powered Advisory Council is committed to support and advise us, as we build out an ambitious charter. It includes Analjit Singh, chairman, Max Group, Arun Maira, former chairman, Boston Consulting Group India and member, Planning Commission, D Shivakumar, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Harsh Mariwala, chairman, Marico, Rama Bijapurkar, market strategy consultant and company director, Sanjiv Bikchandani, founder and vice-chairman, Naukri and Uday Shankar, CEO, Star TV India.
Founding Fuel also has a powerful extended publishing network of independent journalists and entrepreneurial leaders from India and across the world.
Who are the key partners?
Founding Fuel has a tie-up with Ping Network, a leading digital television network and Google and YouTube multi-channel network (MCN) to produce broadcast quality video content. Until December 2016, Founding Fuel also had an agreement with Mint newspaper, India's leading business paper, to produce two special weekly pages on entrepreneurship for the print edition of the paper.
Founding Fuel aims to create the new playbook of entrepreneurship. Think of us as a hub for entrepreneurs- the go-to place for ideas, insights, practices and wisdom essential to build the enterprise of tomorrow. It is co-founded by veteran journalists Indrajit Gupta and Charles Assisi, along with CS Swaminathan, the former president of Pearson's online learning venture.
Who do we want to serve?
Anybody with an entrepreneurial mind set, imbued with ambition, passion to learn and keen to become a high-performance entrepreneur. If that sounds like you, you are part of the Founding Fuel community.
What do we hope to do?
Founding Fuel will use the latest digital tools for media and learning to serve content, learning solutions and a curated marketplace for entrepreneurial products and services.
Who is supporting the venture?
Our high-powered Advisory Council is committed to support and advise us, as we build out an ambitious charter. It includes Analjit Singh, chairman, Max Group, Arun Maira, former chairman, Boston Consulting Group India and member, Planning Commission, D Shivakumar, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, Harsh Mariwala, chairman, Marico, Rama Bijapurkar, market strategy consultant and company director, Sanjiv Bikchandani, founder and vice-chairman, Naukri and Uday Shankar, CEO, Star TV India.
Founding Fuel also has a powerful extended publishing network of independent journalists and entrepreneurial leaders from India and across the world.
Who are the key partners?
Founding Fuel has a tie-up with Ping Network, a leading digital television network and Google and YouTube multi-channel network (MCN) to produce broadcast quality video content. Until December 2016, Founding Fuel also had an agreement with Mint newspaper, India's leading business paper, to produce two special weekly pages on entrepreneurship for the print edition of the paper.
Overview
Location
India, Maharashtra, Mumbai
Employees
1-10
Phone
+91 22 6155 4835
Founded date
2015
Mentions in press and media 10
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| Dec 14, 2019 | The problem with GTD Lists: Life hacks by Charles Assisi | Any piece that screams about how to be insanely more productive or some such thing always got my attention. I have a hypothesis on why. Now that the mid-forties have kicked in, between a paunch, career dilemmas, early signs of chronic disea... |
| Nov 23, 2018 | Binny Bansal withdrew police case against woman accuser but reserved rights to reopen | Post Binny Bansal departure over sexual harassment allegation, the Walmart-controlled Flipkart is going through a major reshuffle at top level as well as merger and shrinking Myntra- Jabong team. Ten days after the upheaval, another secret ... |
| Apr 10, 2017 | Morning Report: Understanding Flipkart’s Downround | 0 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Morning Report: What the heck happened to Flipkart? (Don’t worry, it’s still a decacorn.) News out early this week indicates that Flipkart, a player in the Indian ecommerce space, has raised a fresh ... |
| Jun 7, 2016 | Amazon will pump $3B more into its Indian marketplace as it competes with Snapdeal and Flipkart | Amazon plans to put $3 billion more into its Indian e-commerce site, said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. The investment was announced Tuesday evening at the U.S.-India Business Council’s 41st Annual Leadership Summit in Washington D.C., where ... |
| Apr 7, 2015 | Xiaomi Expands Its Online Retail Channels In India And Inks First Offline Sales Deals | Xiaomi is broadening its horizons in India with the news that its Mi devices will be available through two of the country’s major e-commerce sites, and offline retailers there for the first time. The Chinese company initially entered India ... |
| What The Media Doesn’t Tell You About The VC Industry In India | Relations between investors and startups are tricky. At one level, both of them are incentivised enough to grow the business. One of them has a micro level view by virtue of execution and the other has a macro level view by virtue of exposu... | |
| Must Reads Of The Week: 7 Articles You Shouldn’t Miss Out On [29 June – 05 July] | We bring to you this week’s edition of must reads, articles you should not miss out on.The Rahul Yadav Story You’ve Never Heard Before Rahul Yadav has been making news ever since he had a taste of success with his shenanigans be it talking ... | |
| Why Private Flipkart Doesn’t Need “Saving” | Article Source The Indian startup world was abuzz yesterday about a blog post by Haresh Chawla outlining what he saw as problems with Flipkart proferring advice on how it could “save” itself. The post was entertaining — using the literary d... | |
| Rahul Yadav – The End of An Era That Never Began | Image Credits The ‘bad boy’ of the Indian startup ecosystem got everyone excited when he posted the above Facebook status in early September 2015. It was being dubbed as “the return of Rahul Yadav”. He even made the cover of Entrepreneur – ... |
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FAQ about Founding Fuel
When was Founding Fuel founded?
Founding Fuel was founded in 2015.
What has the press written about Founding Fuel?
Parsers VC has collected 10 articles mentioning Founding Fuel, among them “The problem with GTD Lists: Life hacks by Charles Assisi” (Dec 14, 2019) and “Binny Bansal withdrew police case against woman accuser but reserved rights to reopen” (Nov 23, 2018).
Is Founding Fuel still active?
Yes, Founding Fuel is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jun 24, 2021.