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Lockdown in a Global Scaleup with Rishi Kapal
"Has the lockdown pushed us to upscale and re-skill faster than we expected?"
In this interview, we meet Rishi Kapal, an India based author of Kites in a Hurricane and four more books, a Transitions and Entrepreneurship Specialist as 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.
About the Guest
Rishi Kapal is a 48 years old Stanford LEAD alumni. He gave up a corporate career of 2 decades across Avaya, Ericsson, Castrol, Qualcomm and Sony to become a full-time professor. Later he also became an author and global startups evangelist across sectors. Rishi lives in Pune, India and recently completed writing his fifth book. He has three lines of work. The first one being the Managing Partner of Global Scaleup, where he supports ventures for access to global businesses and investors. Rishi also tries to coach mid to senior-level professionals in their career transitions or if they have been outplaced. Lastly, being a marketing and communications specialist, Rishi continues to write books and help aspiring writers to become published authors.
www.globalscaleup.com
www.meetrishi.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishi-kapal-rik/
About the Host
Julia Skupchenko is a co-founder of Think Tank for Sustainable Development, AlterContacts.org, a co-founder and lead mentor of the global online community of entrepreneurs, BusinessGreenHouse.org. She is a published writer for a leading international online magazine for small business with millions of readers, Entrepreneur.com. She is also a business mentor on the Artificial Intelligence program at Rockstart Startup Accelerator (Amsterdam) and at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). In her personal practice as a Business Developer and Advisor, Julia has consulted 100+ entrepreneurs, experts, small and medium businesses across the globe. She is nominated for Entrepreneur Award 2020.
https://julia.altercontacts.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaskupchenko/
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By AlterContacts"Has the lockdown pushed us to upscale and re-skill faster than we expected?"
In this interview, we meet Rishi Kapal, an India based author of Kites in a Hurricane and four more books, a Transitions and Entrepreneurship Specialist as 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.
About the Guest
Rishi Kapal is a 48 years old Stanford LEAD alumni. He gave up a corporate career of 2 decades across Avaya, Ericsson, Castrol, Qualcomm and Sony to become a full-time professor. Later he also became an author and global startups evangelist across sectors. Rishi lives in Pune, India and recently completed writing his fifth book. He has three lines of work. The first one being the Managing Partner of Global Scaleup, where he supports ventures for access to global businesses and investors. Rishi also tries to coach mid to senior-level professionals in their career transitions or if they have been outplaced. Lastly, being a marketing and communications specialist, Rishi continues to write books and help aspiring writers to become published authors.
www.globalscaleup.com
www.meetrishi.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishi-kapal-rik/
About the Host
Julia Skupchenko is a co-founder of Think Tank for Sustainable Development, AlterContacts.org, a co-founder and lead mentor of the global online community of entrepreneurs, BusinessGreenHouse.org. She is a published writer for a leading international online magazine for small business with millions of readers, Entrepreneur.com. She is also a business mentor on the Artificial Intelligence program at Rockstart Startup Accelerator (Amsterdam) and at the Higher School of Economics (Moscow). In her personal practice as a Business Developer and Advisor, Julia has consulted 100+ entrepreneurs, experts, small and medium businesses across the globe. She is nominated for Entrepreneur Award 2020.
https://julia.altercontacts.org
https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliaskupchenko/