Our Expresso Mentor Session discussing scaling up strategies with “The Founders’ Counsel”  Vinayak Burman, Founder Partner, Vertices Partners was extremely engrossing and thoroughly interactive. When to look for investment for your business? How to build and maintain investor relationships? How to choose the right co-founder? When should a start-up founder start to draw a salary from the company? What are the pros and cons of having a spouse for a co-founder? Throwing light on all of this and more, Vinayak kept it candid, conversational and humorous, sharing a multitude of anecdotes from his own personal experiences.

The big take – “If you have that bug inside you, it won’t let you sleep. If you don’t have it, it won’t let you stay up. We’re all on our journeys because we have that bug that keeps us up, makes us ‘mavericks’ and ‘crazy’ and that’s what it’s all about. Be crazy, hold onto it, stay up and always remember why you first started.”