Talk done at the Sri Sakti India Leadership Summit in Coimbatore, India

1. Leadership Lessons
Vijay Anand, The Startup Centre
An Entrepreneurs' Perspective

2. Challenge Everything. Even Everything We Say
The First Rule

3. About me
• Entrepreneur
• Started my first company at the
age of 16. Three time founder.
• Founder of Proto.in, the Startup
event
• Headed the Incubation Centre
in IIT Madras for the past 6
years
• Founder of The Startup Centre

4. Life is complicated. Make it Simpler
Start with the Basics

5. The Voice of Your Soul

6. "It is appointed unto all man, to be born and to
die ..."
Is that Seriously the Worst Case Scenario.

7. What really matters, is what you do in the
meantime.

8. Leadership Are You Sure?

9. There is no guidebook. No how-to.

10. Is it your Dharma
though?

11. Guttenberg
• One of the The Most
Monumental inventors of our
time
• Died penniless.
• For years the invention was
credited to someone else.

12. Why do the most amazing people, follow the paths
that they do?
Think Mother Teresa. Gutenberg.

13. If you could do something for the rest of your life,
what would it be?
Whats a cause worth living for?

14. You cant lead, anyone, without knowing who you
are.
The Starting Point

15. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-
death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will
permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has
gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where
the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert

16. Not everyone is a leader
... And that is okay.

17. The Mind of an
Artists and Entrepreneurs are similar
Entrepreneur

18. Learn to experiment. Live with decisions.

19. "Important to take things to logical end, than start."
My Father's Advice

20. Learn to communicate.
Learn to Listen. Learn to analyse. Learn to communicate.

21. Leaders without followers, are just nut-cases
The case for non-leaders

22. Be careful whom you admire. You become them

23. Learn from Plato. Aristotle and Socrates.

24. Leadership Still want to lead?

25. You are all Ugly Ducklings.
Some of us too.

27. The Ugly Duckling
• The Egg, born into a Duck's
nest.
• Arrives late to the Party
• Does not fit in, into any of the
others around
• The harder it tried, the harder it
became to fit in

28. Trying to be a duck?

29. When you are really a
swan?

30. Even a Swan Born into a Duck's Family, is still a Swan

31. No Matter what, Stay true to who you are.

32. Good luck.
Vijay Anand
On Twitter @vijayanands

33. Leadership Lessons
Vijay Anand, The Startup Centre
An Entrepreneurs' Perspective