You are an entrepreneur or trying to start a company. You have some ideas and even built a prototype. You want to talk to a few fellow entrepreneurs. You are a professional working on some cool technology. You want to share some of your ideas on how to use/leverage this technology. You have questions about… [Read more…]
July 21, 2008
…a combination of relentless predator upon the obsolete and benevolent solver of the world’s problems. As ways of making money go, that’s pretty good. Startups are often ruthless competitors, but they’re competing in a game won by making what people want. This is such a cool way to think about startups. I like the image… [Read more…]
June 19, 2008
I attended a BarCamp at Chennai last week. I forgot to turn off alerts to the barcamp pbwik and keep getting notifications of new barcamps I got one on (Super)HeroCamp and it piqued my curiosity. It is one of the more innovative BarCamps I have seen in a while. Here is an excerpt titled “Smaller… [Read more…]
May 9, 2008
A great blog post and a discussion thread on reddit. Some snippets (read the blog for a very insightful discussion): Software that re-defines a category (Google and Amazon come to mind) Software that saves businesses (and individuals) money (figuring out the benefits to your customer) Software that helps business earn more money (making it compelling)… [Read more…]
February 29, 2008
This blog is such a wonderful source of information. Here are just a few of the posts: How a beautiful idea becomes a Frankenstein system is a must read for every software developer. Here is a small fragment of a much more comprehensive diagram in this post. I always thought that we built tools to… [Read more…]
February 7, 2008
As children, we are always questioning people. As we grow older, we question less and less and accept more. Corinne Miller, suggests that this may be because of the perception that asking questions is a sign weakness and describes how we can change this. “What’s your favorite question? Over the years we’ve found that the… [Read more…]
January 23, 2008
Democracy was probably one of the greatest innovations in the world. How did it propagate? For a visualization of this story visit March of Democracy. While you are there explore other maps too. Where has democracy dominated and where has it retreated? This map gives us a visual ballet of democracy’s march across history as… [Read more…]
September 11, 2010
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