Founding Fuel

Founding Fuel is dedicated to developing a fresh guide for entrepreneurs. We serve as a central resource for those seeking valuable ideas, insights, techniques, and knowledge necessary for building the businesses of the future. The platform was co-founded by experienced journalists Indrajit Gupta and Charles Assisi, alongside CS Swaminathan, who previously led Pearson's online learning initiative.

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Who owns your data-you, the creator, or the platform?

1 week ago | foundingfuel.com | NS Ramnath |Charles Assisi |N S Ramnath

Home Daily Newsletter Articles The Kunal Kamra-BookMyShow face-off is more than a dust-up between a performer and a ticketing platform. It is a snapshot of a larger issue that will only become more pressing. And it impacts all of us By NS Ramnath and Charles Assisi When comedian Kunal Kamra posted a letter on X (formerly Twitter) addressed to ticketing platform BookMyShow (BMS), it instantly drew widespread attention. The company was under pressure to delist him from the platform.
We’ve been experimenting with intermittent fasting. Here’s what we’re learning

3 weeks ago | foundingfuel.com | Charles Assisi |NS Ramnath

Home Daily Newsletter Articles Charles Assisi and NS Ramnath share their journeys—and lessons—on the road to better health. And Dr Aasim Maldar, an endocrinologist, weighs in on how and why to make it something one can sustain By Charles Assisi This isn’t a story about dramatic transformation. This is no breathless account of having lost a dozen kilos. And there is no “before” and “after” photo. What I do have is something quieter. A shift in how I live.
Trump’s hardball tactics to extract minerals & peace in Ukraine

1 month ago | foundingfuel.com | Vivek Y. Kelkar

[From left: US President Donald Trump, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
We, the People of India

2 months ago | foundingfuel.com | Vinita Singh

[Photos courtesy We, The People Abhiyan] Stories have the power to transform, and one story transformed me as I sat in a garage one summer afternoon in Delhi. At that time, I had already worked for 16 years in the social development sector on improving rural livelihoods. I sat with a friend who told me the story of how the Preamble to our Constitution came to be a pledge taken by “We, the People of India”.
Briefing #2: The risks from war still raise the spectre of uncertainty

2 months ago | foundingfuel.com | Vivek Y. Kelkar

The second of four briefings to set context for the Masterclass series on The World in 2025, scheduled for Friday, 31st January 2025, 6:30 pm and Friday, 7th February 2025, 6:30 pm. Read Briefing #1 on the US-China relationship here. On the surface, it might look like the risks arising from potentially worsening wars across two regions—Europe and the Middle East—have somewhat lessened with Donald Trump assuming office as President on January 20.
How L&T completely muffed up a valuable teachable moment

Jan 15, 2025 | foundingfuel.com | T Surendar |Forbes India |Indrajit Gupta

Five days have passed since the viral video of the L&T chairman SN Subramanyam berating his own staff at an internal townhall surfaced on social media. Except if you were living under a rock, it is unlikely that you would have missed the seemingly unending storm that the video triggered. The meme fest and the commentary on LinkedIn and Facebook seem to have a life of its own. To be sure, it could have been a great teachable moment for India’s largest independent, diversified conglomerate.
FF Life: The rewards of writing

Dec 6, 2024 | foundingfuel.com | Krishna Jha

Two years ago, I stumbled into writing online. The first essay that I wrote was at the encouragement of my friend, Charles Assisi, who used to be managing editor at Forbes India and now is co-founder of the Founding Fuel platform. One time, during Covid, we got to discussing evolution, and I may have commented that The Selfish Gene was one of the best investing books. This connection between evolution and investing intrigued Charles, and he urged me to write an article for his readers.
My top ten business books of 2024

Nov 15, 2024 | foundingfuel.com | John Kay |D Shivakumar

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The new business theme: Love the product, hate the producer

Oct 16, 2024 | foundingfuel.com | John Kay |D Shivakumar

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Briefing 2: India and the Indo-Pacific

Sep 17, 2024 | foundingfuel.com | Deborah Elms |Vivek Y. Kelkar

[Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the 20th ASEAN-India Summit in September 2023. Photo by MEAphotogallery, via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)] The Indo-Pacific is a tough neighbourhood. India delineates the Indo-Pacific as a region stretching from Africa’s eastern coast to the islands of the South Pacific, based on its strategic power projection perceptions. The region is arguably the globe’s most sensitive and contested zone, viewed from the lens of US-China rivalry.