Words matter. These are the best Naveen Tewari Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Advertising has to be contextual, as the potential in ‘push’ marketing is fairly limited and is largely viewed as spam. Thus there is a need to get into ‘permission’ marketing and ‘pull’ marketing to deliver value to marketers.
I know, it sounds generic and is a cliche, but coming from a middle class family in Kanpur, it was always the neighbourhood opinions which mattered.
In a market where funding is hard to come by, if you’re scaled already, then you are in a brilliant position because nobody is going to catch up with you.
In my viewpoint, experience is grossly overrated.
I realized that the journey of entrepreneurship can often be a lonely one. Not everyone wants to believe in or support your vision, and every entrepreneur faces this moment of truth. It’s hard to walk away but harder to persevere.
However hard you might try, you can never understand a market like a local person would.
I don’t consider my competition to be companies but entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is the freedom to take your own decisions, and that’s what we offer.
Our business is strong and enjoys high margins.
When I started InMobi, I was on the road raising funds. I faced 20 rejections. But when I got the funds, they came from best venture capitalists.
I always believe in backing up a team that is super passionate and loves to work with each other.
Bengaluru’s traffic does not allow scope for cycling regularly, but I brave the roads occasionally and take the cycle out to work.
As an Indian company, to go outside India and motivate people, have them align to our vision, and get them excited about what an Indian company can do was a hard thing to pull off.
I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things.
We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet.
The most important lesson to remember is that failure is inevitable, but so is success, so rebound.
Drying up of capital has different consequences in different environments.
We started paying everyone 100% bonuses. We removed any sort of performance management system where you put down your goals for the quarter, or the year, then try measuring against those goals because when you are dealing with innovation, that has no meaning.
NestAway is a disruptive product creating a win-win opportunity, not just for direct stakeholders like owners and tenants but for the society at large by making cities safer, especially for young women.
As long as you’re a company that makes profits, all’s good.
You get to learn so much while working in another country.
As technologists, we all write code.
We were told that building a product company in India is impossible, as there wasn’t enough talent available. But we survived, thrived, and grew despite a whole lot of frowns and thumbs down.
Access to Internet and content should be free for users which can get accommodated by advertisements.
Our offices across the globe may not be very similar in terms of the way they look, but they are very similar culturally.
As long as you’re clear about your goal, failures don’t mean it’s not going to work.
The primary motivation for me is to learn.
We knew we had to think global and think big. Most companies that are emerging don’t do that.
Google created the intent graph. Facebook created the social graph. We are creating the emotional graph.
InMobi is passionate about pushing the limits of business and mobile technology.
When we failed and pivoted our business from mKhoj to InMobi or when we did not get any trained people with the required skillsets, as we were the first in the industry, and on many such instances in our journey, we would think of giving up every other day.
Frankly, as an entrepreneur, you can do only one thing and be a part of it, but through investing in different ventures, you can be a part of something new and what others are trying to build.
Advertising has always been about creating awareness. We started to question that logic. Discovery-led consumption is where we are headed. We are bringing window shopping to the mobile platform.
Anything edgy won’t see instant success. That’s why one will have to learn to wait. You’re going to see a lot of failures.
In tough times, one has to see if the fundamentals of the business are good or not.
The world has many very smart people who are doing interesting and different things, and there is no better way to learn than to interact with them.
I am not a big fan of investors asking for revenues upfront. Investors seeking numbers are being too myopic. However, I personally believe in creating a product with clarity in mind on how one thinks revenues can trickle in.
Team sports is the best for bonding. These sports lessons are also true for startups. You want to be at the top of every endeavour, but you win some and you lose some. As a team, however, you always pump each other up and move forward.
After multiple failures, when I tasted success, I was at my creative best – the ‘jugaadu’-best.
Of the three largest Internet markets – the U.S., India, and China – you will increasingly see Indian and Chinese companies partner.
For me, my career and passion is InMobi. So I hardly get stressed working for it.
