If you are one who has traded in the Stock Market and had anyone sensible enough to teach you the ropes, the first rule is that when everything starts to drop, its a good time to buy. The rule is simple. When everyone is heading one direction, there is probably – and with very high [...]
You must know by now that we get involved in quite a bit of work related to the city. I believe that a city is a representation, collection and expression of the people living in it. If you walk into a city and cannot hear the voices, and expressions of its people, the city … [...]
That was the title of a talk that happened at the Fastrack Sessions of Proto.in January Edition. Since we are sitting on three editions of fabulous talks, I thought I’d take the pains to transcribe them one at a time whenever i find the time so that the larger audience – some who didnt and [...]
Compared to how things were a few years back, the Startup Community has come together in such a fabulous way. We have OpenCoffee Club meets, Startup Lunches, Startup Saturdays, Mobile Mondays, Barcamps, Ideacamps etc, etc, and the plethora of other activities that organizations such as TiE, NEN, NASSCOM, etc are providing to benefit this same [...]
Compared to how things were a few years back, the Startup Community has come together in such a fabulous way. We have OpenCoffee Club meets, Startup Lunches, Startup Saturdays, Mobile Mondays, Barcamps, Ideacamps etc, etc, and the plethora of other activities that organizations such as TiE, NEN, NASSCOM, etc are providing to benefit this same [...]
I never thought I’d get into this. The IPL frenzie, I mean. Too much of pompous marketing hype, and a proof of what would happen if cricket was more than cricket and added bollywood and cheerleaders to the mix – thats what I thought. I had initially gotten some tickets from a friend, and had [...]
Up until a couple of years ago, the concept of “First movers’ advantage” had some credit to it – atleast in the web world since it was quite nascent. Lately more and more folks are realizing, and rightly so, that whatever happened in the PC Platform, is repeating itself in the web world. If you [...]
Seems like we are not the only set of folks who are wanting to fix the problems we see around us and build a “sustainable” atmosphere around us. There is a post by Ryan who runs FOWA taking a stance against the Web Mission effort that is getting organized by the UK Government and quite [...]
There is a paper that is published by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) which reads the outcomes of close to 150+ startups in various investment scenarios. Apparently, companies that just took Angel investment or those that took money from VC firms exclusively did very well. Companies that did a mix did not fare by [...]
When I was in Canada, I lived through two cycles of economic downturns. If you are gasping for breathe and feeling sorry for me already, well dont. Markets fluctuate and correct themselves much more rapidly in more mature ecosystems. We are just getting used to it and we better. It’s going to become part of [...]