“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”—George Bernard Shaw First few parts of [...]
February 23, 2006
Am awfully bad at conversions.Dollar to ruppe. Millions to lakhs and crores. Here’s what I have some empiricals which I keep memorising every now and then…$1 million = 4.87 Crores$100 mn = 487 croresInfy is $1 bn company = 4870 crores Hope it helps imagining the worth of figures when they appear in newspapers without [...]
February 21, 2006
Was browsing on this keyword : Fact and opinion. Evaluating information is discerning what is fact and what is opinion.Why did I never thought about this ? Here are some views… Fact versus Opinion: “Take a very abstract view of the content: there is factual content and there is opinion/analysis/etc. Factual content has long been [...]
February 16, 2006
The TiE Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (TiE-EAP) presents a workshop on ‘How to Write a Business Plan’. The workshop is planned for February 22, 2006, Wednesday at Gardenside Hall, Taj Gateway, Bangalore and is open to all entrepreneurs/potential entrepreneurs
February 16, 2006
“How are you ever going to explain, in terms of chemistry and physics, so important a biological phenomenon as falling in love? “- Albert Einstein That was for valentine day. Little late.It’s a mystery. Even better if it remains mystery.
January 27, 2006
BillMonkThis one comes as a real surprise to me.Other day I had thought about this problem and even blogged too about sharing the expeneses at a restaurant. And today i happened to cross this website. Well…someone is already out there !
January 23, 2006
Three friends go to a restaurant.They eat and only one person pays the bill. Cant we have some trick of sharing the bill burden among the three using mobile phone ?
January 22, 2006
Essays Paul Graham never ceases to bowl you out with his writing.here’s January piece onHow to Do What You Love
December 26, 2005
Ideas for Startups: “finding the problem intolerable and feeling it must be possible to solve it. Simple as it seems, that’s the recipe for a lot of startup ideas.”
December 17, 2005
Attended TiE’s seminar on business plan. “How to Write a Business Plan” on December 17th, Saturday presented by the TiE-Bangalore Women’s Chapter. Three presenters. Anjana vivek on Business plan in general. Samir Kumar, VC, JUMPSTART on VC perspective on the biz plan And Rajnish Singh, ICICI Bank Banker perspective on Business Plans. Good bunch of [...]
December 17, 2005
What’s the Big Idea? – New York Times: “What’s the Big Idea? ” I lead a perfectly healthy, satisfactory life without being religious. And I think more people should try it. Not at all. I do not believe in the inner world. I think that the inner world comes from the exploration of the outer [...]
December 11, 2005
My last post was on 22nd Nov.Did remember that I must post. But Somehow, slipped.What have I done in past few days.Digital lifestyle exhibition at palace grounds.TiE evening with Dr. C Mohan, IBM fellow “Global Technology outlook”One toastmaster session : my speech on “Information management”Attended IEEE seminar on emerging trends in wireless.What did I miss [...]
November 18, 2005
Looking beyond googleLooking beyond google by Satyanarayana.Attended this talk in the hall next to pavilion of chinnaswamy stadium amidst noisy preparation for the onedayer tomorrow. Search business in the kinds of google is just the tip of the iceberg.Invisible web or deep web or un indexed web is 500 times larger than the current web.Information [...]
October 24, 2005
If you ask me what’s the best way to read blogs…especially when you can’t keep up with day to day new posts and you have lost track of some important blogs ?Go to http://www.httrack.com/ and download offline web browser tool.WebCopier brings the entire web to your desktop and you can browse your favourite blogs offline [...]
October 19, 2005
For an entrepreneur, the fundamental question is how to begin… I came across this post of Brad Feld, a venture capitalist. He has put together a how-to list for entrepreneurs: 1. Figure out how much cash and time you really have 2. Pick a domain and go deep 3. Surround yourself with experienced people 4. [...]
October 17, 2005
This is what VOIP (Making a voice call using internet) can do to the telecom industry ! WARNING bells.a MUST read article from Economist.party to witness the downfall of wired giants and the blooming of exciting new companies…Today, VOIP calling over 3G networks is still very much a minority sport, but as 3G coverage and [...]
February 23, 2006
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