Tieboston has a blog .I don’t know when tiebangalore or tiehyderabad will start having a blog. Rajat has been trying to push for that a lot,let’s see when that starts happening. As in one of the posts the Jay author of the blog notes TiE members seemed to be scared of blogging.More
Entrepreneurial Lessons
Nuggets of wisdom learnt through painstaking experience by an entreprenuer. I could not agree more to each of the word spelt in his post. Reproducing below the key points spelt in the post. You don’t need an MBA for the first 3 years What type of people should be in the team:…More
War for News
I am fed up with the stinking trash spilt out garbed as news by the various regional & English TV channels. But surprisingly I am enjoying the inside dirt of many of these premises( CNN-IBN, Times Now, NDTV). Warfornew is written by an anonymous person who goes by the alias ‘All seeing spy’ and…More
Entrepreneurship Network
I was forwarded this news article by a friend few days ago, it is relinked at many places now. Few folks at IIT Powai are trying to help build a Global Entreprenuership Network connecting entreprenuers and VC's , they are also trying to collaborate with entrepreneurship cell at Stanford…More
Future of mobile media
Shawn Connan, co-founder & CEO of Rabble is an extremely smart guy, something which I have mentioned few times earlier. He is a visionary and is far ahead from the rest of the pack in his understanding the mobile & media business. Shawn gave a talk called “User-Generated Content and the Future of Mobile…More
Mobile Barcode Big
Tommi’s s60 application blog has a post where he refers that 2d barcodes will become huge for mobile. I think this has a huge potential and have big liking for this concept. I have been tracking this since when one of first such application started coming out.More
Metroblog Hyderabad
The Hyderabad metroblog has been slowly building up momentum slowly and a few days ago it was officially launched. A few bloggers from Hyderabad , so far only from the metroblogger list are meeting up on Sunday. If you are’nt doing anything else join us. More details at Ramesh’s blogMore
Lost 2 posts
I published my BREW post yesterday and it did not appear, I thought some connectivity snag could be the issue and it happened again with another post today. WordPress sucks !! I think this is the first time I am saying this but it wasted a lot of time. It does not even have a…More
Qualcomm BREW 2006
Qualcomm BREW is one of the conference that I always want to attend. Apart from the excellent talks & tutorials from prominent speakers that goes on in the main conference an added attraction is that this conference happens in the beautiful San Diego.(one of my fav cities). Last year's conference had tons of…More
Sequoia Capital India’s First Investment
Sequoia Capital India does series A round of investing in TutorVista. The investment is around $2 million. It is founded by Ganesh K who is a serial entreprenuer with earlier successes like Customer Asset(BPO). Tutorvista according him is a “new generation education company” that is challenging the “cyber coolie” label given to the Indian BPO…More
MoMo India
As the interests for a mobile monday so far is sparsely spread across the country , it made sense to create a mobile monday india yahoo group as well. You can join here. We plan to colloborate & exchange notes here and as momentum builds up in each city focus then in each…More
Silicon Valley elsewhere
I like Paul Graham's articles very much even though I find couple of his articles amusing where he uses somewhat of a short cut logic to derive a conclusion. His latest article titled ‘How to be silicon valley’ is by far one of the best articles I have read so far. Also so because it…More
QOTD
From the main page of Khosla Ventures website. "An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true."More
How to build bullet proof startups
A fantastic article in CNN money on "How to build bulletproof startups" co-written by the brilliant Om Malik. There is so much of useful info to learn from this and for me having read this there are a few holes that I need to fill 🙂 Why…More
Local Momo…..more
Mike replied to my queries on setting up of Mobile Monday. He said it involves no formal process and it is as simple as setting a wiki/blog and getting interested people to meetup :). So we (Rajiv& me) have started work on that front and have created a mobile monday bangalore yahoo group, register here…More
Edge of Vision
Living on the edge I will be tuned regularly to the Edge of Vision 😀More
Tiecon notes
I attend almost every TiE meet that I can as there is always something new to learn or someone interesting to meet there. Have been attending all the bangalore meet since over an year and all the hyd meets since last couple of months. The one meet (the biggest & most talked about one) which…More
Local Momo
Long since I have been ranting about the lack of MoMo in India (my previous rant here).Today I was having a conversation with Rajiv and during the conversation the lack of local MoMo thought came back again & together we decided that we should go ahead and setup a local MoMo chapter…More
Virtual People
Of late I come across a lot of sites featuring virtual people these days and I observed that I spend a lot more time on these sites :D. Some of these sites are, what can I say heavenly :D. You gotta to see it to belive it. Virtual Girlfriend ( Check out Anju 🙂…More
Barcamp Mumbai is on
Barcamp Mumbai would have started by now. I made a barcampish(adhoc) 🙂 kind of attempt to reach umbai after Mohit & I chatted on thursday evening. But too much of adhocness does'nt work always I guess :). Had I planned for it a little earlier I think I could have made it there. I kind…More