Entrepreneurship aint sexy ??? 2 little paragraphs with a view

The world is full literature mentioning that entrepreneurship is hard on knees. Some say, its as hard as falling in love. It brings in a lot of uncertainties and it keeps most of us from taking a leap of faith. We remain glued on to our day jobs. We do not know how long the [...]

Deal sites, media and why we should smell the rotten fish in them

Recently there was an article in Economic times about, “How you can save a lot of money by going online and using the sites like snapdeal, taggle, sosasta etc.  It makes its advertisements look like they are news items. Wikipedia on ethics in media campaign talks about making advertisement look distinct from news items. Often [...]

6 Things startups can learn from Osama Bin Laden Inc

Osama Bin laden was a fearless entrepreneur. He like most start ups had disruptive aspirations. He wanted to take the Biggest bull(y) with horns. He had to raise a good amount of money to realize his objectives. He probably used to pay his recruits much less than market and used to extract the best out [...]

Prices matter for cool products, Shit sells cheap everywhere and who cares

I have always believed in buying world class products, however what I have paid for them is Chinese prices This means buying Levi’s Red loops for Rs 800/= Puma shoes for 500/= a Nintendo Wii for 11,500/= or  Hi Design leather jacket for Rs 1400/= . The habit has continued in my start up and [...]

Jump !! it wont kill . Even if you die, it wont suck you

I was sent a link (Given at end of post ) to an Article by William Quigley of Tech crunch by one of my friends. This dealt with value creation in tech companies and timing of investment. One sentence which touched me deeply was : “The valuations of today’s private tech leaders – Facebook, Zynga, [...]

5 things an entrepreneur must do to retain value of start ups

Often I meet accountants, finance guys who are dizzy eyed when we talk about the value Tech companies create against the investments they take. I came across this article from Dharmesh Shah an MIT graduate who raised USD 50Mn for his company Hubspot.com ( URL : http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/42537/Insights-On-SaaS-From-The-3 ) The table contains the data he shared [...]

Faith and the need for orginality in new businesses

Years ago, I read an article about ‘Faith’ a song by George Michael. The song was talked about everywhere. MTV had not made an appearance in India or was probably not that accessible. By MTV, I mean not the current reality TV stuff but a channel which beamed good music through out the day. I [...]

Loose your Illusions Fast .Its a Web X.0 age and X getting bigger

Some years ago , during the final rounds of Miss universe contest a question was asked : Judge                                         : What is one change which has affected the humanity in the biggest way ? Beauty Contest [...]

Delights of being an Entrepreneur

There was so much of verbosity and then twitter shoved them backstage. We all have our sentences, we need just words as signals. Trying a new blog form to share with all . First month’s joys of being n Entrepreneur:Why you should love and not fear starting up

Some unusual ratios for comparing companies worth

Some very rare ratios which show you a deeper perspective of a company