Month: February 2014

  • Is Google Doomed?

    As much as market share loving analysts might want to make Google look like the star of the future, Google’s actual position for mobile is very poor. Market Share lovers would point to the prevalence of Android and the vast number of apps available on the platform and the number of manufacturers supporting Android. The…

  • Asking for a favour

    Today morning, Salma told me about a conversation which she had last week. I just had to put it out in public domain because; well, I just had to. Diplomatic Woman: Hi Salma, my daughter did not get into ABC School, can you help me out. Salma: Right now is probably not the right time.…

  • WhatsApp Is Worth It!

    Facebook spent a whopper to buy WhatsApp. Well whopper is an understatement. They spent $19 Billion, off which only $3 Billion is subject to shares vesting. So let us first put that number in perspective Facebook bought a small company with a team of 32 engineers for $19 Billion. Let us compare this with the…

  • NewsDeck120 – Changing News

    I am very happy to let you all know about NewsDeck.   During the Demo Day 2013 organised by Startups Club on 16th November, off the 5 presentations that were given to the judges, only 1 was a pure idea (Was not a fully formed business). Harsha, who was pursuing this idea was still working at…

  • The Goa Project

    When I heard that there was an Unconference going to take place in Goa, I was curious to know what an unconference was? I had never taken part in an unconference and I genuinely had no idea what it was; but just the sound of the word was great! UNconference – It is conference, which…

  • #StartupsClub #DemoDay2014

    Last year around July: Startups Club was about 4 months into its journey and had reached two cities. We thought that we needed to do a big event. Well what would be the purpose of such an event? Most startups fumble around to get proper validation, whether from prospective clients, from people with sufficient industry…

  • An Important lesson on managing Teams

    I was wondering why it is, that we tend to have better meetings at Startups Club when the group tends to be smaller than when we have larger groups. I found the answer in a book called ‘The art of thinking clearly’. In 1913 Maximilian Ringelmann, a French engineer, conducted an experiment on horses! After…