Month: December 2013

  • Optimisation… Bah! Humbug!

    So over the past few years, I have been hearing a lot about how search engine optimisation is important and how your blog, your Facebook page, your website and any other online identity that a business might have, needs to be optimised. They ask you to pump the page with keywords; provide cross-linkages; and all…

  • Evolution of Education – In the world of mobile apps

    I was using  Duolingo yesterday and attempting to learn French, which I know fairly well. At the same time, my partner, Salma’s son, Zaid, was using the same app to learn French. As I was going through the various exercises that are a part of the app, I was noticing how quickly Zaid was able…

  • Reason to Start early with Entrepreneurship II

    Fear is the biggest culprit that keeps people from chasing their dreams. Taking off and not bothering about consequences is not usually an adult thing to do. If you wish to train a person to become a gymnast, normally you have to start early. This is due to the fact that learning gymnastics involves a…

  • Reason to Start early with Entrepreneurship

    Life is an evolutionary journey. As we go through life, we mature; and as we mature, our needs increase. Entrepreneurship is also a journey, a journey that few individuals feel motivated to embark on. So, in life, as our needs increase, the resources that we require to meet these needs also increase. When it comes…

  • Entrepreneurs and Investment

    If I had a dime for every aspiring entrepreneur that I met, who told me that if only the investment was in place, they would start off!! Entrepreneurship is a journey and not a destination. So my question to most entrepreneurs is; When would you have sufficient funds to run your startup? Its 7 years…

  • Getting off the “Comfortable Chair”

    As a part of my work, I come across a lot of aspiring entrepreneurs who wish to start a business but do not want to quit their job. Now, obviously there is a flaw to this logic. I liken starting a business to having a baby. There are no half measures to it. When you…

  • Knowledge Vs Success

    The Intuitively Assumed Knowledge Success Curve It is often assumed that as your knowledge increases, you become more successful. If there is a particular subject about which you have greater and greater knowledge, you would assume that you would be more accomplished in that area and hence more successful as well. Let us say you…

  • Importance of Ignorance to Success

    I had a wonderful day today listening to some of the most accomplished people speak about their lives experiences and inspire the rest of us in the audience during the TiE Summit. I loved the talk by Paul Deegan. It was interesting to hear a mountaineer make some of the most insightful points about business.…

  • Advertising and Cultural Context

    Apple released an ad called Misunderstood, to make their final push for this holiday season. I was just reading up Apple blogs as I normally do and found references to the fact that the ad was really touching. I was left confused because I did not find the advertisement touching. For those who know me,…

  • Seed Funding

    Many of the people that I meet, who have an idea that they wish to work on seem to face a huge problem. Their biggest complaint seems to be that they find it hard to generate seed funding for their projects/startups. The key issue is that most people do not understand what seed funding is.…