Rethinking the Indian Telecom Sector
shashiI have been observing the Telecom/Internet Infastructure in India both as a former vendor to service providers and also as a customer. I am of the firm opinion that in…
Apple should buy Amazon. Here’s why!
Well, not the whole, but their entire technology division - including cloud and hardware. 'Apple is a great hardware company, but are clueless when it comes to software' - is…
“Edge” Crowd Funding Fail – Brilliant market hack by Ubuntu
Product marketing is a very tricky activity. Especially for a product that is based on free and open source software. Ubuntu Edge is a great idea that might eventually get…
On how companies lose it to their founders’ ego!
OnLive and OnMobile are entirely different companies in different domains, different geographical spreads, different sizes. But they have quite a few similarities as well. While the  "On" in their names…
Whither Social? Whither Cloud?
The last few days have seen quite a few events that give rise to skepticism about the Cloud and the Social Websites. Â Linkedn says display of tweets in user's profile…
Scott Adams on Venture Capital and the Neo Rich
Scott Adams' satirical take on the new rich kids becoming venture capitalists. http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/venture_capital/ I came up with the Ego Theory of Venture Capital while reading through a list of startups…
In defence of Y-Combinator’s `declaration of war against Hollywood’
The `Kill Hollywood' call if put in the right perspective, is more of a call to 'Disrupt Hollywood Model of Business' than killing the entire industry altogether. Y-Combinator, one of…
SkypeOut – MicrosoftIn
A joke that's making the rounds of the Internet goes like "Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 Billion. Nobody told them you can download it for free." :-) Though rhetorical, it…
Raising Credit for Startups through Banks – CGTMSE
Bootstrapping a startup can be an arduous task. Especially raising capital while growing can be a daunting goal to achieve. The most popular approach seems to be approaching Angel Investors…
Google or Search?
The term google had entered our dictionaries not only as a proper noun, but also as a verb. We had stopped searching for information. Instead we googled for information. But…