Sam Santhosh is an entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in initiating and running successful businesses. Sam is an investor and mentor for many companies and is currently an advisor to Impelsys Inc New York, ePay Healthcare, San Francisco, and a board member at SciGenom Labs, Cochin, Emerge Ventures, Singapore and the Centre for Commercialization of Antibodies (CCAB), Toronto. Prior to this, Sam was the CEO and Managing Director of California Software Limited (Calsoft) from 1992-2012. He founded Calsoft in 1992 and under his vision, Calsoft grew rapidly from a niche player in the Silicon Valley to a global player with 1,200 employees and presence in eight countries.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Entrepreneurship was not at all looked upon well, even in my family or elsewhere it was not considered something good to do so people typically a government job and working for something steady and stable so it was very tough to get the support to look at entrepreneurship and look at starting your own company”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
None specific
Favourite Quote:
“If you don’t read, you can’t lead”
Recommended Online Resources:
Online Learning tools
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be very clear about your exit plan and make sure you don’t get diluted too fast. My last rule of thumb that I tried to tell entrepreneurs and business men that you should hold on to at least 50% of your equity for the first 5 years, you and your core team, that will allow you to make sure you have control of the company and you don’t end up having too little at the end of the day”…[Listen for More]
More About Sam Santhosh:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You are loaded with answers; don’t live your entire life asking questions.” Israelmore Ayivor
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sam Santhosh:
- “Things are happening at such a fast pace, there is not much of an opportunity for you to rest on what you know like the earlier generation when you finished learning at one phase and the rest of your life would be applying what you learned but now that has changed so I think the most important thing would be to have that ability and have the ability to be able to hone that continuously”
- “Getting the right people in and making sure you’re all on the right page is really important”
- “You’re not going to have it very smooth”
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