There are some things in life that we learn by listening to others who tell you and some other we learn by finding it out by yourself. Even though it is easier to learn from what others tell there is joy in learning it by actually doing/experiencing it. Building a technology product startup in India…More
Mobile Monday Mumbai First Meet Thoughts
I am just back from Mumbai first Mobile Monday event and it was a wonderful evening. Despite the best efforts of the Mumbai rains to disrupt the first meet Veer could successfully gather a wide variety of people from different segements of the mobile media value chain.Kudos Veer ! It was nice to meet…More
Mobile Monday Mumbai
Mumbai Chapter of Mobile Monday has been announced. Here are more details. When: Monday, July 3rd, 2006 7 pm onwards Where: Netcore Solutions, Lower Parel, Mumbai [Address and Directions] Speakers and format of the event is as follows. Introductions Rajesh Jain, MD, Netcore Solutions Mobile Internet for Emerging Markets Pankaj Sethi, VP –…More
Barcamps in India are Seed for a Valley Culture
Barcamps across the world have the common spirit of openness & inclusiveness nature but I think there are different reasons of why they get embraced in different cities in the world. In US when barcamp was started first (in Palo Alto by Chris & others) it was to fight the exclusive, non – open, discrimination…More
Myspace to India
Just came across this news Myspace to expand to 11 countries and that includes India. My previous post Media 2.0 & India seems to be appropriately timed.More
Is India ready for Media 2.0 ?
I had been chewing this thought for a few weeks now in my head, there is so much discussion about the rise of the new media all over the developed parts of the world but is this new baby been given birth to in India. A question that is been nagging me…More
Webyantra – Techcrunch for India
I keep complaining about the need for a gigaom for India, it is great to see a techcrunch coming up. Amit Ranjan an entrepreneur, who heads the Indian office of Uzanto has started a separate blog called Webyantra which is poised to act as the techcrunch for India. I like the name webyantra…More
Mobile Monday Bangalore first meet update
I am just back from kicking off the first Mobile Monday Bangalore(India) meet and it was thrilling to meet many mobile enthusiasts. Since this was just a small kickoff meeting and the main intent of the meeting was to discuss about Mobile Monday we had expected only 10 people to turn up but about 20…More
MoMo meet
I would be in bangalore over the weekend and on monday few of us would be meeting up for the first MoMo bangalore meet. Details are below. Date: 19th June, Monday Time: 6:30 to 8:00 pm Venue: Koshy's Chill Out Cafe, St Marks Road. Aztec Soft, #23, 3rd A Cross, 18th Main, 6th Block,…More
Openness and Attention Economy
Goldhaber’s article on “attention economy” when I read a few years ago was an absolute aha moment for me. It was a seminal article which attempted to articulate in a nice manner the nature governing our lives after the advent of the net. The keypoint put forward was that with the net becoming an important…More
IITs & Others
Rashmi has an article in which she has good stuff to say about IIIT, she largely quotes alumnus Chandan in the article but nonetheless good things are mentioned by her about IIIT.More
Equality, fairness, opportunity
Shirky’s Law as encapsulated by Hugh McLeod. Equality, fairness, opportunity: pick two only The above is the description in words that represent the graph of a power law(aka Zipf’s law). It is been observed that many of things in the nature follow this kind of graph. .For instance the distribution of…More
Do you own your data ?
Last week in the metroblogger meetup, we got into an interesting conversation where I had put forth my adamant viewpoint on why I hate orkut & deleted my orkut account long ago as it does not protect my privacy. I argued that it make my private data semi-public( or public) and I do not…More
Barcamp Hyderabad 2
Barcamp Hyderabad held in April got an amazing response with close to around 200 people turning up for. So much so that almost everyone was eager to know when the next barcamp is going to be. Energized , encouraged & enthused by this we announce Barcamp Hyderabad 2 and this time around we plan to…More
Barcamp for women
Barcamp blog points out to a first ever barcamp for women, go figure it ! It's fantastic ! More
BREW2006 Videos & Prez up
I was wrong about this one too, BREW 2006 conferences videos and presentation are already out 🙂 I found this presentation by David Westendorf , Senior partner at Kodak on camera phone demographics, issues & challenges to be very interesting. Liked this quote in particular, Mobile value proposition is compacted post-capture action …More
New VC on the block
Silicon beat reports that Canaan partners a Valley based VC has set up office in India. Helping run ts Indian office is Alok Mittal(a BoA member) who posts sometimes at Venturewoods. As discussed in the post by Matt this might be the first few example of VC's coming to India and setting up offices here.…More
Want an Uranium Jeans
I want to buy a Uranium Jeans & merchandise. I had always wanted a apparel which display scrolling text message (via textually). The message displayed can be sent via mobile, I think it should be feasible to write a small hack which could stream my play-list in my music player/i-pod to the display in…More
Indian Tech Startups
Two days ago a friend from in a b-school asked me to give him a list of early startups in India. I have been tracking the startup scene in India for a long time now but when he asked me to give a list then I did not have one that I could pass it…More
Great Marketing
In his latest post marketing ace Godin says “Great marketing pleases everyone on the team, sooner or later. But at the beginning, great marketing pleases almost no one. At the beginning, great marketing is counter-intuitive, non-obvious, challenging and apparently risky. Of course your friends, shareholders, stakeholders and bosses won't like it. But they're not…More