I assume, you know, why you want to find an influencer. I actually don’t like that term “influencer” and would like to use some synonyms like evangelist, thought leader, expert, expert blogger/columnist, curator. So let us say we want to find some one who is well known in a certain space. There are several ways… [Read more…]
March 29, 2012
After a gap of over 20 years, I got a chance to meet with my mentor. I first met him towards the end of 1984 and pitched him three ways of building a database engine. I will tell this long story in another post. I was nervous as hell and blabbered about SQL vs QBE… [Read more…]
July 14, 2011
My notes scribbled down at the Sales 101 event organized by TiE Chennai. Some pearls gathered at the event which is mainly directed at small entrepreneurs. Your business should be based on your personality Automate first rounds of customer engagement Sell value, never sell boxes No one really cares about your product. They care about… [Read more…]
May 15, 2011
Snippets – from Marissa Mayer’s TiEcon Talk A 5-7 bullet blog post sent by every employee at Google on Monday describing what was accomplished the week before. The snippets are aggregated and made searchable so any one inside Google can find out who else is working on things they are interested in. This is not… [Read more…]
April 25, 2011
Congratulations to the seven students from Chennai who made it to Google Summer of Code. I am especially proud that they all participated in #32hourstartup and/or #in50hours product building events. Here is a list of the people selected. Yuvi - KCG College, Mediawiki Madhu- SSN, GNOME Karthik – SSN, GNOME Kishore – KCG College,… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
The weekend marathon event In50hrs is behind us now. But the ripples continue. A few blog posts, tweets and retweets, facebook pictures and comments are still trickling in. Here is what I really like about the event. I liked the name and the tag line – ”Can you take an idea and give it life… [Read more…]
March 14, 2009
I don’t think I have done this much of talking, in a while. It was great and I loved every bit of it. I gave ten Talks in about twelve days (weekends included) in three different states. It is kind of cool. In the end, I learned a lot and had many great interactions. I… [Read more…]
January 6, 2009
Habitudes – I never heard this term before so when Angela mentioned it in one of her tweets, I checked it out. Habitude is the combination of habits and attitudes. For more check out What is a Habitude? - Which Habitude Will You Work on Improving in 2009 – A Twitter Poll The poll result… [Read more…]
November 5, 2008
Andromeda Strain and Terminal man were my introduction to a class of science fiction called future history. And when I learned that Michael Chrichton was in his early twenties when he wrote these books, I was simply blown away. This morning, I learned that he passed away at the young age of 66. Farewell my… [Read more…]
October 22, 2008
I was watching this video today. If you are a small startup (typically bootstrapped), this is a must watch. Here are some notes: Keep the Momentum We work on projects that are chunked in smaller bits Planning is vastly over rated We don’t do road maps We do not write functional specifications ( They lead… [Read more…]
April 23, 2012
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