Monthly Archives: September 2010

LinkLog: World Bank Institute on Innovation

One of my hobbies is to study innovation and gather innovation frameworks. When you look at the instruments of innovation, you get ideas to borrow from. A bit of background – I conduct workshops on exploring innovation and mentor innovation

Posted in Innovation

Service Business vs Product Business

Some Thoughts on Service Business vs Product Business in Software. 1. In a service business, the customer tells you his problem and you provide a solution. In the product business, you discover a set of customers with a problem and

Posted in Disruptions, Ideas, Innovation, Products, Software

We Need to Create a Product Culture

I keep getting this question a lot – why don’t we build products like many US companies? We at Chennai, do not yet have a product culture, like they do in Silicon Valley or Boston or Austin. When we don’t

Posted in Ideas, Products, Resources, Software, startups

Heard at TiE Chennai Unconference Panel Discussions

At the panel on Scaling Businesses at TiE Chennai Unconference on Sep 18th. The Panel The panel consisted of  three charter members of TiE and two eminent people one from Thoughtworks and one from a Govt body. Chandu Nair –

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Posted in Ideas, startups

How Can We Keep The Conversation Going?

We had great un-conference, the first ever in TiE Chennai, yesterday. The energy and enthusiam were awesome. It is nice to see people engaged, deep in discussions. The whole thing was self organized. You decided the topics, you participated in

Posted in Reflections, Resources, startups

The duties of a Data Scientist

The duties of the Data Scientist will include, but not be limited to: Designing and building new processes for large and complex data sets Thinking strategically about uses of data and how that interacts with data design Designing and implementing

Posted in Data Scientists, Trends

Mining Discussions

Nothing gives a better picture than a picture of what people want to talk about. So here is the latest Topic Cloud of the TiE Uncoference, in black and white. I decided to investigate a bit further into the text

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Posted in Ideas

How Will You Find?

If you are a technology based start-up with an idea for a product, you have to ask yourself a few questions. Here are some questions that come to mind. How will you find : Whether some one will use the

Posted in Ideas, MVP (minimum viable product), startups, Tools

LinkLog: Competitive Technology Intelligence

How do you stay competitive? By leveraging emerging technologies. By having a strategy for Competitive Technical Intelligence. What the heck is that? There is an entire book written about it, but here is the essence in 3 bullets. Use technology

Posted in Intelligence

LinkLog: Lectures at Night and Work in Class

This is brilliant. May be worth experimenting in a few classes especially since we are trying “project based learning”. Will it work for all subjects? instead of lecturing about polynomials and exponents during class time – and then giving his

Posted in Ideas, Innovation, Learning, teaching
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