Its rare, but now and then you do find someone who is equally passionate about that idea thats stuck in your head. You know you often struggle to comprehend, let alone verbalize and explain what you are going after, but these rare mentors do get you. Really they do. They’d pitch in when you are [...]
I remember listening to a very wise man once utter the words that … “Every Civilization that ever survived and flourished, all had a culture of Right to Passages”. I am not sure if I heard much of what was said after that. My mind had already raced to a truth that I’d known innately. [...]
Time flies by and a new year is born. Here’s wishing all the startups, and those I’ve come to know, cherish and converse with, the year ahead to be fruitful, prosperous and most of all a year without regrets – even in the economic situation, for what it is. Happy New Year.
For quite sometime, I have been part of conversations that usually involved of this mythical creature called the “Co-Founder”. If you would take the liberty to head to one of the startup discussion groups, sooner or later someone would bring up the conversation as to how hard it is to find a co-founder for his [...]
1. The Ability to Connect If the first four words arent able to convince me that this is a product or service that would interest me, the pitch has lost its audience right away. 2. Short and Conclusive. Anything more than three lines to explain what it does, and then pause to see if there [...]
Its so easy to Microblog. Twibble on my Mobile. Twitter Fox on all Desktops and Laptops that I usually access. Its never been so easy to jot down your thoughts. Unfortunately it does seem like its eating a lot into my blogging habits. Its not like I dont have stuff to write about. I have [...]
I’m convinced that we are doing something wrong. During a conversation with someone who has experience beyond my age, on how the product landscape in India is evolving, he smiled, took the time to coin his words (into something more politically correct) and said, “Nobody is really changing the rules of the game. Everyone is [...]
Actually this would be my third or fourth time being quoted extensively in an article in this magazine. Just as the Startup community is growing, there is also a lot of affiliated media that is growing along with them – I.T Magazine, Cybermedia’s Dare, Smarttechie, all are magazine’s looking to cater to the “entrepreneurial” kind [...]
Question: How do I deal with it, if my team member suddenly comes up to me and asks for a long leave since she is expecting and also wouldnt be able to put in regular hours like the others? It seems to be a baby boom season. Quite a lot of people in circles I [...]
Question: How do I deal with it, if my team member suddenly comes up to me and asks for a long leave since she is expecting and also wouldnt be able to put in regular hours like the others? It seems to be a baby boom season. Quite a lot of people in circles I [...]