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The Total Kannada Store
I had the privilege of visiting the Total Kannada Store in Jayanagar today. What is amazing is that it is an entire store dedicated to only Kannada entertainment – whether it is movie CDs, CDs of...
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PESIT Offer to Startups: Mentor Students, Get Office Space
My alma mater, PESIT (in Bangalore), has an interesting proposition for startups – mentor students and get office space in return. The background is that they are working to improve the quality of...
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Creativity x Organization = Impact
81 people have asked me about “Innovation – ways to make people innovate.” That’s a hard question. Especially because I’m always wary of using such an ambiguous term. And more so, when there are far...
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Why is no one talking about the difficulty of hiring for startups in India?
We’ve all heard about how startups are key to the future economy of India and we’ve heard about how hiring should be a top priority for any company – then why is it that hiring is NOT a majorly...
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The real reasons why Indian startups struggle to hire
The last article on difficulty of hiring for startups in India generated a lot of discussion (also see the HackerStreet.India discussion about this article). I was surprised to see so much response...
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Statistics to wow non-techies about digital future
A common question I get from non-techies is “Is ecommerce for real? Do people really buy online?” My line of argument is that the future is digital, and hence buying online is a natural consequence of...
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Leaving Infibeam
Today is my last day at Infibeam. I’m going to miss working in this environment because I learned a lot about ecommerce and online buying in India. For example, I was surprised to know how much sales...
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Freelancing
I’ve been a long-time reader of Ramit Sethi – I love his irreverent approach to money which has influenced me positively. About a year and a half ago, he launched the Earn1K program and I was...
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Book Review : Start-up Nation (story of Israel)
I read the "Start-up Nation" book last week. This book was so engrossing that I read it within 2 days, keeping aside everything else. After reading this book, I started seeing the patterns about Israel...
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Nostalgia in a startup vs. Anu Aunty book
In a long bus ride, I read How I braved Anu Aunty and made a million-dollar company and I loved the book. The stories in the book are especially familiar to those who have faced the ire of family and...
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Joining InfiBeam
Update: As of 22 June, 2011, I’m no longer with Infibeam. Thanking the community First and foremost, thanks to all who encouraged me, and offered support and help when I wrote about leaving my own...
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Taste and Ambition
A question to all wannabes, startuppers and entrepreneurs: Does taste drive ambition or ambition drive taste for you? In other words, Do you have a passion for Ferrari and hence want to become rich, or...
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A founder has to do only two things right
I’ve been pondering over the myriad of startups and ideas that have been in the fore recently (in my twitter stream). I have a new theory that has been developing in my mind for quite a while: A...
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How to get funding from Government of India
I will be speaking in a panel at the HeadStart Conference, Hyderabad today regarding what is the funding that was granted by the Govt. of India to my ex-startup, and how you can apply. I converted the...
View ArticleTo get somewhere, you already have to be there
The irony in this world is that “To get somewhere, you already have to be there.”From an individual perspective:If you want to make money, you need to already have money.To get a job, you need to be...
View ArticleWhat I learned at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009
There are not enough good problems that tech startups are working on and there seems to be no shortage of funds, platforms and ecosystem partners willing to help startups. The ecosystem is hungry for...
View ArticleLeaving IonLab
Yesterday was my last day at IonLab, the company that I built with a few friends. It has been a wild ride but I could continue no longer. I am leaving due to internal differences on the progress and...
View ArticleThe 5-year limit to being a coder in India?
Let me start with a story I had heard about long ago when I was at Adobe.There was this guy who had come in for interviews for a technical role. He passed all the tech interviews with flying colors,...
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Fun can change behavior
Once in a while I come across something really inspiring, and this time it was The fun theory – a “thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behavior for the...
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Joining InfiBeam
Update: As of 22 June, 2011, I’m no longer with Infibeam.Thanking the communityFirst and foremost, thanks to all who encouraged me, and offered support and help when I wrote about leaving my own...
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