What do engineering colleges have in common with simulation of world bodies like G20 and UN? I got my answer at Hindustan Young Leaders Conference (hycl) conducted at KCG Tech. Not sure how it came about, but it is such a brilliant idea. Bringing a groups of young people to discuss world affairs, using models… [Read more…]
March 7, 2012
Employees Use Multiple Gadgets For Work — And Choose Much Of The Tech Themselves This brings up many interesting thoughts and questions: From now till 2016 when the shift happens, what happens to the existing productivity apps that people use? Microsoft already introduced One Note on Mobile. Will they do Word, Excel, PPT etc on… [Read more…]
October 28, 2011
My reaction to the Common Crawl was one big WOW! Common Crawl produces and maintains a repository of web crawl data that is openly accessible to everyone. The crawl currently covers 5 billion pages and the repository includes valuable metadata. The crawl data is stored by Amazon’s S3 service, allowing it to be bulk downloaded… [Read more…]
October 25, 2011
We have been experimenting with some ideas at in50hrs and 32hourstartup and here is the latest incarnation of one of those ideas – Sponsored Projects. Why Sponsored Projects? Sponsored Projects allow you to work with developers in the region to get concept prototypes built over a weekend. From the developer’s point of view, they get… [Read more…]
March 26, 2011
Thinking in terms of time and attention will quickly start to change the way you think about products and services, customer behavior, even business models. This is the great frontier for innovation for the next decade, this author believes. Companies that master time and attention innovation will find lots of market traction. via iveybusinessjournal.com Time-Value… [Read more…]
March 18, 2011
One of the fastest ways to make money is by tapping an under-mined business niche. Some of the biggest success stories in history come from people who went looking for an answer to a problem, and when they couldn’t find one, created the solution themselves. Were they the first people to have the problem? No.… [Read more…]
March 16, 2012
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