Category: General Thinking

  • Why Elon Musk opened up Tesla Patents

    A month back Elon Musk said come one, come all (in good faith) and use our patents. Its okay! Lots of commentary was written about how Elon Musk is the shining beacon in this world of patent trolls. This should be the way every large company should look at their patents and have the willingness…

  • Ramblings on Perseverance

    Steve Jobs is considered one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our times. He was involved in three ventures, Apple, Next and Pixar; of which two can be considered bonafide successes. Next was more of an acqui-hire and we really do not know if it would have been a hit, stand-alone. But if we were…

  • Things to remember before heading down the path of Entrepreneurship

    Last week, we hosted the Startups Club meetup at Chennai. We were fortunate to be joined by Mr. J Krishnan for the meeting who shared some of the wisdom that had been shared with him by the likes of Kanwal Rekhi. I just made a note of them and put them together in this blog.…

  • Modi – The Storyteller

    I recently completed a course on Storytelling by Jennifer Aaker from Stanford. At the core of it, the course explains four steps to telling a story which are: 1. Single Focussed Goal 2. Grab Attention 3. Engage 4. Enable Action In the context of the recent victory that Modi registered in the elections in India. As I…

  • Setting Goals

    When you are looking to achieve anything in life, it is extremely important to set goals in place. The question that often comes up is why is it important set things in stone, why can’t goals evolve in the same manner in which the business plan of a company does? This was the question which…

  • Difficulties

    I did not write much last week because there were some difficulties. So I thought that I would write some about difficulty. There are those who tend to believe that their life is more difficult than the others. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every person’s life is littered with challenges, the face, shape…

  • 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…