Vidhya Balan Beware! Congress is out to play Dirtier picture

Vidhya Balan you have an immediate competition. You just can get dirtier than Congress. We know that state polls are on. Swept by trust deficit, the ruling Govt  stands slimmest chance in any of the states. The  demographic surveys conclusively indicate that results will be decided by OBC/ MBC voters. This class just has narrow [...]

Do we have enuff of political branding? Keep politicians name off the NITs

Recently ,I came across profile of an investor on Linked in . When I looked for his college, I found that he had neatly written it NIT- State. When I thought deeper on it I got some really crazy thoughts. We have all IITs which are suffixed by their city name. We have all IIMs [...]

Anna Babu,Yeh hai Bum bayee meri jaan

Disclaimer : This is a biased monologue of a highly contrarian thinker who is too lazy to do research. The author takes no responsibility of heartburns after reading this. You are advised to buy adequate antacids before reading this Bombay probably is a city of hip shakers. No just hip shakers but gaudy hip shakers. [...]

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 [...]

Hindustan Meri Jaan

On Page 2 of Economic Times today , I saw 2 articles : 1. Montek Singh claiming that PM cannot be blamed for any SCAM. He had told Raja to follow all good ethical practices and Raja had confirmed that he is. A PM cannot micro manage you see.. He had also told Kalmadi and [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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