Entrepreneurship, Life and BeyondEntrepreneurship, Life and BeyondOn a startup entrepreneur's life and learnings Articles
Searching for self?
2008-05-01 17:06:00 Floating clouds in a vast sky? Are they seeking the land beyond these skies? The flame glows so bright? Did it find the cosmos the air beheld? The river flows unstopped What keeps it alive, The ocean or the journey to it? Man, matter, mind? What is it that we all keep searching? The cloud, the birds, the river and me There is something ... More About: Searching
A journey of self
2008-03-19 15:33:00 Life goes on.. with or without people.. At the end what remains is just us and the memories of people who came and left… At the end what remains is, always a ‘journey of self’. -HKN More About: Journey
Discover your Destiny
2008-01-02 14:24:00 Yes, there is a destiny that awaits us all. The irony is that we are not destined for it. We need to make a choice. Either, We can decide to walk through our lives, never realise what are we looking for and why, weather with seasons and finally stop with time. This is a good life, mind you. We ... More About: Destiny , Discover
Where are you headed?
2007-12-04 15:16:00 Starting up is a learning curve. The faster we learn, the lesser we make ‘avoidable’ mistakes, we increase our chances of success. The beauty about this is that if you are prepared to learn, you will realise how foolish you were when you started up. And how being foolish worked to your advantage. A few pointers on how to ...
Of festivities and rationality
2007-11-08 08:03:00 Man is not a rational animal ; he is a rationalising one. November. Delhi. Fog, Chill and in these settings of dull evenings, you would see a city being dressed in festive lights as the sun sets by. They glow, they glitter in colours of pink, yellow and blue. They bring a city together in joy ... More About: Ality
Persistence pays : the triumphs and travails of Naukri.com
2007-10-10 16:45:00 To the uninitiated, Naukri is India’s one of the few internet bigtime success stories. To most of us, what is not known is the struggle and journey of Naukri (and Infomedia) from early 1990s to where it is today… Came across this interview with Naukri CEO, Mr Sanjeev Bikhchandani. Passion. Patience. Perseverance. Thats what the ‘Naukri’ story is ... More About: Pays , Persistence , Travail
What Michael Dell had to say about Apple?10 years back?
2007-10-08 11:00:00 This is what Michael Dell retorted about Apple 10 years back. The idea is not to rubbish off Michael Dell . (There was a time not long back when Michael Dell was the ‘future’ of the industry) Such blunders are not an exception… There are many more of these that with time have become epitomes of ‘human misjudgment’. But ... More About: Back
Where Commitment is Delivery. Everytime
2007-07-22 17:17:00 One common problem we all would have suffered is ‘Commitment - Deli very gap’. Be it a normal shopping experience, the daily rickshaw ride or even a professional vendor - client relationships. What gets committed is never really delivered. And whats delivered is not what was committed. Wonder why, but in our country, somehow we are in this ... More About: Where , Elive , Liver
Keep Running?
2007-07-11 14:17:00 As our startup struggle gains momentum with new uncertainities and unseen opportunities, here are a couple of lines that came to mind while driving back from delhi yesterday. Keep Running . Run hard. Never meant running fast. Run easy. Never meant running slow. To Run smart. Thats what we need to know. When you find others runing ahead of you, run faster. When you find others running ...
Musical Serendipity
2007-07-09 06:33:00 This is what I discovered today : Burstlabs. It is music served in a very different feel and look. Great for those days when you want to drive your blues / boredom / block away… Do take a look. Found it really innovative. And how I found it is an all together different story. More so, because I was not ... More About: Musical , Serendipity , Serendip , Pity
Surreal Reality
2007-06-24 18:27:00 I re-discovered this post on the life, struggle and success of someone by the name of Sanjay Bakshi. I know him as he is a faculty at MDI and his legends often are the folklore of the finance students @ MDI. So much so that I have known my batch mates who decided against ... More About: Reality , Surreal , Ality
K.I.S.S : business philosophy
2007-06-21 00:19:00 K.I.S.S : Keep it simple and structured Often in our minds, we create ideas that start from scratch and very soon blossom into grandeur. Most of our ideas stem from serving a small market need. But as we dwell more on the idea, we grow it to the extent that it starts impacting industries, looks like ... More About: Philosophy , Business , Hilo , Sine
Do not stand at my grave and weep
2007-06-21 00:15:00 Thought provoking poem by Mary Frye Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there; I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sun on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet ... More About: Grave , Stand
If - Rudyard Kipling
2007-06-19 17:10:00 Inspirational poem by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t ...
VC backed entrepreneur
2007-06-19 04:05:00 Here is a good read about a day in the life of a VC backed entrepreneur. Humor aside, it just shows how a wrong investor(s) can totally screw up the pleasure of starting up. Money has colour, my friend. Be careful whom you take it from and how you use each penny of it. More About: Entrepreneur , Rene
It is all about ?People?
2007-06-17 22:34:00 Often I sit down and wonder.. what are enterprises all about? Technology? Product? Strategy? ( Plain Luck? Rich Father in Law? ) and many more… And slowly and surely, the answer I am arriving at is that, its ‘ People ‘. Eurekaa Yes sir.. Its all about people. People in general refers to I-C-E (something ...
Here and Now
2007-06-17 02:04:00 On immortality of friendship, relationships and people: Straight out of Jonathan Livingston Seagull (by Richard Bach) “If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we’ve destroyed our ow brotherhood! But overcome space and all we have left is Here. Overcome time and all we have left is ... More About: Here and Now
Of buses and entrepreneurship
2007-06-16 15:14:00 Think about it. We, in India, have this tendency of overpopulating everything we see. For instance sake, consider a ‘prime route - office time’ bus ride in any city.People are stuffed to the extent that you literally beg for ‘breathing space’ or envy the person who just got down. And then there comes a time when ... More About: Entrepreneurship , Buses , Ship , Rene
K.I.S.S : business philosophy
2007-06-16 00:19:00 K.I.S.S : Keep it simple and structured Often in our minds, we create ideas that start from scratch and very soon blossom into grandeur. Most of our ideas stem from serving a small market need. But as we dwell more on the idea, we grow it to the extent that it starts impacting industries, looks like ... More About: Philosophy , Business , Hilo , Sine
Entrepreneurship - myth vs facts
2007-06-14 00:06:00 Taken this from an ET article dated June 12′07 on their ET empower supplement. It was a good read. All credit to Mansi Tiwari (ET reporter) I particularly liked this table at the end of the article… Myth s Facts 1. VCs fund startups Less than 1% of all new businesses are backed by venture capital 2. Access to ... More About: Entrepreneurship , Ship , Rene
online travel industry + india (2)
2007-06-12 15:27:00 Well..here it is Our very own travel aggregator, ixigo (Much like kayak, my favourite ) But, this is not the only aggregator around. Here are some of the others: meratrip, Rediff Fare Search, Yahoo Fare Chase But, there is still a lot that can be done on the travel space. The only contention with us is that we all keep doing the ... More About: India , Travel , Industry , Online , Line
12k $
2007-06-11 01:29:00 Here is an interesting post on how much money did it take to launch truemors Doesn’t it pop up the question in your mind, that is not having sufficient funds the biggest hurdle to implementation? Reaffirms my belief, that money is not the biggest pain point… More important is to know, how each $ is going to take ...
Names you?d want to know - Internet + Mobile, India
2007-06-10 14:54:00 Here are stars of the indian internet and mobile space. Names you would have come across. Helps to know them by face too - HKN P.S. Thanks Arun More About: India , Internet , Mobile , Mobi , Intern
Only you know what you can do
2007-06-05 02:30:00 Know yourself. The greatest journey is the journey within. From Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach “Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly. “ |
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