Tag Archives: entrepreneurship

Knowing what to say

The biggest problem with starting up and doing your own thing is a lack of confidence about how things need to be done. Many new entrepreneurs (those have started up, not those who are planning to) ask me about how … Continue reading

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The thing that they don’t talk about

Alok Kejriwal is a star of sorts, having sold a lot of companies over the years. LiveMint covered him in an article recently and they forget to mention the one thing that all entrepreneurs should learn from him. It comes … Continue reading

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6 reasons why your outsourced project will run late

I’ve been running my company for about three years now. I don’t have an exact number now (unlike earlier, when I knew exactly how many projects we had done), but I would say that in general we would have completed … Continue reading

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Ecommerce in India

Just read a great post by Mahesh Murthy on Quora about how Ecommerce in India is already getting big. For the last few years, whenever you hear about E-commerce in India, you hear the sad old issues about people dont’ … Continue reading

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Creating New vs Repairing the Old

My car broke down again today morning and it resulted in another trip to the service station next door. The guys there are usually helpful, though they do charge a little more than I would like. The starter had some … Continue reading

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How to decide which clients to work with

We have been building iPhone apps for over two years now. When we started, there were hardly any clients and we had to make do with the projects that we got. For the first six months, we never once took … Continue reading

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The Quintessential Non Disclosure Agreement

If you run a company, you really can’t get away without signing an NDA. You need to sign one before you can talk to anybody. This is why I thought we should have a discussion about how is an NDA … Continue reading

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If I wanted a job, I would want one at UTV Motion Pictures

If there is one production house that is on a roll, it’s got to be UTV. Over the last few years, the have given us Kaminey, Dev.D, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Bluffmaster, Swades, Parineeta, Rang De Basanti, Life in … Continue reading

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Bill Gates pays a visit to Eko.co.in

The first time I had heard of Eko, I couldn’t resist the temptation to drop an email to its founders and ask if I could do anything for them. The moment you read up about what they are doing, you … Continue reading

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Are you scared?

The coming of the “Internets” has made communication so much easier. For all these years we have been drooling about how fast news travels from one corner to the other. Within minutes the news gets to Twitter, within 5 minutes … Continue reading

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