Category: General Thinking

  • 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.…

  • Overestimation – Interesting Insights which I myself just realised!!

    So last weekend, we had chosen “Overestimation” as a theme for our Startups Club meeting. We were expecting the meeting to be rather dull since the topic was not something that could generate a great deal of debate. Just as a last minute thing, we decided to throw in a game into the meet. So…

  • Why can’t we appreciate people when they are alive?

    #PaulWalkerDead A man who was not being talk about much a day before, dies, and the whole world erupts into mourning. They talk about how much he will be missed and about all of his contributions. I do not understand why people cannot be appreciated when they are still alive? Why is it that they…

  • Entrepreneurship: Desperation Vs. Passion

    I was recently engaged in a conversation with a relatively old gentleman who had given up work after having spent 30 years in various corporation. He had a fair number of accomplishments, but most importantly, he was at a point in his life where he was financially stable and could go the rest of his life…

  • Apple and India

    Sometimes, the only thing that is left for you to do is go all out and put yourself out there. Such is the case with what Apple is doing in India. The company has traditionally been very conservative with advertising in India and left it to the die-hard fans to show up at the store…

  • E-Retail – The Transition Tech

    E-Commerce is a huge gamut of things, but when most people talk about e-commerce, they often are referring to e-retail. E-Retail is a space where countless number of companies and individuals have invested money. If you look at the vast majority of players in the space, most of them are not wildly profitable. Amazon recently…