Cast Away is an awesome movie. You see it and you come back with two things. One, Tom Hanks survives the lonely island. And Two, he is a FedEx employee and he delivers that Wilson ball in the end. Then there is a book called How Starbucks saved my life. You read the book and […]
Vision India 2020: Preface
This is a new series in which I invite readers to take a journey with me into the future through the minds of multiple entrepreneurs, who by addressing the opportunities I see today, will perhaps shape the future of India. But in this series, we will close our eyes, and exist in this future, and […]
Some Humor
A bit of Humor. I am writing coz i have some time, and this site has a humor section … and i don’t own a blog (yet) to backlink. You are reading, possibly because you also have some time. Nice, but then don’t complain. Even VCs read humor section these days (yes, i have heard). […]
Introducing eHealthopinion.com
One of the most common reasons for people to go online is to search for health information. 55% of those with Internet access have used the Web to get health or medical information – reference survey by Pew Internet Survey. Said so the present form of web information is limited to learn about diseases, obtain […]
Startups Exploited: An Open Letter.
This might be very personal, but I doubt it can be avoided. For the past two years, there has been a lot of time, commitment, travel, stress, energy, and personal money that has gone into a really ridiculous goal – one of creating a culture of oneness, open communication and one where startups stand a […]
Top management recruiting
Businessweek has a nice refresher on recruiting top management. While it primarily seems to be written for large companies, the lessons are equally relevant to startups. Of course, there are some additional points one needs to keep in mind when recruiting for startups: Sell a personal vision – not just of where the company wants […]
Meeting Online this Saturday [Today] @ 3PM
Compared to how things were a few years back, the Startup Community has come together in such a fabulous way. We have OpenCoffee Club meets, Startup Lunches, Startup Saturdays, Mobile Mondays, Barcamps, Ideacamps etc, etc, and the plethora of other activities that organizations such as TiE, NEN, NASSCOM, etc are providing to benefit this same […]
Agri Commodities
Food prices are at an all time high in most places around the globe. We have been reading news on Wheat, Edible Oil, Corn etc reaching their multi year highs. A report on the same topic reads “Rising Food prices can be good news for the food companies who are attempting to pass along those […]
plugHR proves concept
One year down the launch of commercial model of plugHR in April 2007, chasing a million dollar first year dream, plugHR proved the concept by reaching almost half of targetted numbers. So HR can be delivered through autoserve platform, is what some two dozen CEOs experienced with plugHR managers driving their HR strategies in a […]
TiE Canaan Challenge | Funding and Cash Award
Since we have announced the launch of TiE Canaan second edition; I have received multiple queries on: Why no cash awards? and Why no funding for winners? Funding issue is more loud and clear. I thought to share what we thought while deciding for awards: 1.) We should understand that a platform as open as […]
Introducing ReviewGist.in
I would like to introduce the Venturewoods community to ReviewGist.in. ReviewGist.in is a product discovery and research tool for consumer electronics powered by online expert reviews. Essentially, we analyze expert reviews to figure out what aspect/part of the product is the reviewer rating good or bad. We then use this information to create simple yet […]
Pradeep Khosla: The Entrepreneurial Dean of Carnegie Mellon University
How does Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), a renowned research US university foster research and a spirit of innovation among its students and faculty? How does CMU do tech transfer? What is unique about the US university system that helps in creating startups and companies? Is there something that India can learn from the US University […]