4. Profile
• Ketan Sharma
o BCA (PU, Chandigarh)
o MSc. SE (KU, Kurukshetra)
o MSc. Distributed Systems (De Montfort, UK)
o Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (Windows NT/2000, Yr. 2000)
o ITIL Foundation, 2010
o Project Management, Prince2 Practitioner 2011
• Over 10 years of IT experience in team
management and project delivery.
• 2 Startups
5. Projects
• Lanasia – concept realization, got nominated for
ProCon Awards, Leicester, UK 2001.
• Filmpur – Website to make Leicester UK the
gateway for Bollywood in Europe. Leicester, UK
2002.
• Suhetu – Project Initiation, Branding and Launch,
Times Now, 2003.
6. Failures
• Failed in 12th (Non Medical)
o Moved from DAV College to DAV School
• First startup failure – True Solutions
o Wrong team!
• Got fired from my first job
o Wrong job!
• Got fired from my second job
o Wrong company!
• Many more to come…
7. So what is this
entrepreneurial mindset?
FAIL EARLY, FAIL FAST & FAIL OFTEN
8. Be Fearless
Fear is a state of
assumption, in lack of
knowledge.
Trick to snowboarding
downhill!
10. Learning So far!
• Gather the right team.
• It’s the team’s responsibility.
• Centre around your customer. You are solving their
problems.
• It’s OK to fail!
• Share your learnings. You are not the first one and
certainly not the last.
• Evolve and improve.
• Control your costs.
• Execute! Don’t keep planning…
