Vidya Sagar B Zakkula is a seasoned engineering leader and technologist. He has more than two decades years of hands-on technical and leadership experience with quantifiable achievements.
He has extensive expertise in start-ups and fortune 500 companies. He has demonstrated flawless execution of complex, versatile projects.
Zakkula authored a bunch of technical papers on various technologies and has few patents.
Zakkula has decisive functional leadership experience in product, program, software engineering, development, validation, and quality assurance management.
Zakkula has a proven track record in managing substantial budgets. He has an exceptional focus on innovation, productivity improvements, quality, and operational excellence.
Zakkula has demonstrated capabilities in establishing global and diversified teams with multiple high caliber, and lead them to be results-oriented, high performing teams. He developed them from scratch and turned around existing organizations to drive excellence in a short span.
Zakkula has strong domain expertise in specialized areas like embedded, systems software, device drivers, servers graphics virtualization, saas, e-commerce, enterprise apps, DevOps, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, telecom, audio processing, video codecs, text processing, mobile apps development, developer tools, automation frameworks and so on.
Zakkula is a mentor for a few startup CXOs. He has been helping in the areas of business models development, tuning, business transformation, product positioning, market gaining strategies, technical leadership, and executive leadership areas.
At this Knowledge zenith stage, Many people blessed with the latest technologies & information sources, unlike the previous eras. It opened up excellent opportunities for everyone to venture into entrepreneurship. This phenomenon enabled a higher number of people to pursue startups as a career. Unfortunately, these people do not have any inherited background knowledge of entrepreneurship. As a result, many people are getting stuck with no information and no clarity on how to start the journey of entrepreneurship.
The existing schooling system is not enabling the students with the desired skills either. It is still stuck with industrial age concepts. People who want to get into startups do not have a reliable handbook for dealing with their day to day challenges.
Though in recent decades of the Information age, access to the information is very high, it is in discrete data formats. Hence requires much in-depth analysis, synthesis to convert it into actionable knowledge.
So there is a need for a source in a consolidated form, which can help entrepreneurs to establish the mindset of success, to understand failure characteristics, to help then on how to deal with the myths of pre-established notations. Most importantly, there is a need for tools, tips, and tricks in a consolidated way to help with their day to day operations.
This book helps entrepreneurs to learn the essentials of entrepreneurship by the following structure
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What are the various “Motivations” for the entrepreneurs to start the business
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“Characteristics” of Entrepreneurs, what characters make a big difference in the journey?
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“Common Myths” to break. How to deal with existing notations and when to call out for help in dealing with those myths?
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“Success Factors” for Entrepreneurs. How to think, what makes a big difference in the journey?
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Is the “Funding” necessary, what types are existing? basics of them and how to conclude the requirements
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What is the essentiality of “Business Plan”? Why is it required? How to start planning? What makes a plan suitable and executable towards success?
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Why “Business Outsourcing” is critical for startups and how to use it, the inclusion of self in the ecosystem.
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The Chapter “Act Now” is all about how to start and move forward.
