Professional User-Generated Content. You think its Oxymoronic? Think again. Let me cite to you two examples. Rocketboom, and ZeFrank. I dont think Frank is doing the show anymore, but Rocketboom is essentially a low-budget, five minute clip which basically is one of those “tequila shot” videos, giving you a summary of everything thats going on [...]
I think I have figured something. It goes something like this. Markets and Companies are neither created nor destroyed. They just transform from one form to the another. I’ll give you some examples. Amazon.com when it started in 95 was a very ambitious project. A few years later, they were raking in 30million dollars as [...]
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 [...]
Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs call it Business Models. Economists call it as Game theories. They are such fabulously mind-stimulating equations. The equation which essentially makes someone give up hard, liquid cash in order to avail a service, and enable you to make a profit. It’s really quite as simple as that. How do you get [...]
“Consumers are ready for physical media to be completely obliterated. ” – Inspired by Brad Duea, President, Napster When I was barely a teenager, my computer instructor taught me a golden rule. Whenever you come across something interesting, complex and mythical that blows away your mind, rest assured that the following cycles will follow: In [...]
Most enterprises in India look to “more economically viable” markets abroad as their target customers. If you ask them why is it that we are never focused on local demands, and the market that is seemingly so huge and is often quoted to be one of the fastest growing, the response is usually the same: [...]
Mumbai, though a little late, has been turning into the happening scene for techfests and they are organizing the third edition of Barcamp (quite shortly after their second one) on popular demand it seems. Mumbai, after Bangalore, has been one of the few cities to be conducting their MoMo meets quite regularly, whether rain or [...]
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” — Pablo Picasso What is it that makes a great startup? It’s a question that I have been pondering over for sometime now actually and I thought I’d start a conversation around the same. So What makes a startup great? Is it It’s [...]
Lately there is this thought running into my head, that in most circumstances I am starting to count and make a mental note of all the “computing” devices around me. As of now, I have my mobile phone which is in arms reach, my laptop that i am working on and my server which is [...]
Lately there is this thought running into my head, that in most circumstances I am starting to count and make a mental note of all the “computing” devices around me. As of now, I have my mobile phone which is in arms reach, my laptop that i am working on and my server which is [...]