Entrepreneurship

As IT companies declare surprisingly optimistic results over the last quarter of 2009, industry experts claim that the worst in IT outsourcing seems to be behind us and that it is time to look ahead at positive trends throughout 2010. continue

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Its 2010 and as we step into the next decade, Business and Technology remain the scale of measuring the overall strength of any country. Though jaw-dropping start ups keep coming forward from the dorm rooms and garages of the Silicon Valley, investors in US are worried that the  government is not doing enough to entice entrepreneurs to stay. continue

3 Idiots is an amazing movie! It hits the right chords in comedy, philosophy, romance and everything else that any bollywood movie can touch. Till now everyone whom I have asked has given only positive feedback about it. Amir Khan has given an amazing performance and the movie has done very well at the box office as well. The message of the movie is also very clear, follow your heart when picking your profession, and not necessarily the safe professions like Engineering / Medicine in India. A very good concept indeed. continue

As some of my batch mates went from IITs to MITs and other US Universities around the world, the number of publications in their resumes started to increase at an exponential speed. To me this phenomenon really did not make a lot of sense as how can a student or his research change within a couple of months to take their number of publications from non-existent (in IIT years) to innumerable (in US Universities). The simple answer I got from my friends was funding and resources available. Ofcourse IITs being one of the best institutes in the world in terms of students still lack the resources for producing world class research. continue

The following article is part of a series on strat.in – called Startup September. In one sentence, Bhumi is a 3 year old NGO that lights the fire that questions questionable leadership. continue

The idea is not new, the concept is also not really new but the execution is new! Location based services are now capturing the world at an amazing pace!

To think of it a mobile phone was a location based service. It provided a moving point of contact for a person. Now with the launch of iPhone apps and similar adaptation into other phones, the location based services are becoming more and more popular. In the iPhone you have AroundMe, Yelp!, Google Maps, Twitter, and UrbanSpoon using your current location. Moreover the latest service by Google called Latitude is an amazing addition. continue

(This is the first article in our Startup September series announced on September 1.) It is indeed amazing how fast applications on the internet evolve. We already know of the speed at which facebook is growing . It has crossed 250 mn UVs , with ever growing penetration in the Indian market. However, there is another direction in which facebook is evolving – as a Platform for app developers. continue

Having traveled and stayed at some of the major Indian cities the one aspect which I find most disturbing (and with most opportunity) is the business of hotels. India as a country has a huge population, huge density in the major cities, and an unbelievable number of travelers. But the problem lies in providing these travelers with a decent, hygienic hotel to stay which is not extremely expensive (I don’t believe it is too much to ask). continue

Europe’s biggest carmaker, Volkswagen, will soon takeover Porsche after the Porsche CEO, Wendelin Wiedeking, resigned from his position on Thursday. The takeover deal is supposed to be worth $11.3 Billion.

The surprising aspect in this deal is that for the past few years, it was Porsche who was steadily and strongly increasing its efforts to takeover Volkswagen even with Volkswagen being 16 times the size of Porsche. continue

The author need not tell the readers what a solar eclipse is. There was one today (July 22nd, 2009) , with a 100% eclipse in the two most populous countries of the world (http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/solar-eclipses-history-and-science-844_)  The mentioning of the “populous country” concept was used not as much to strike a sense of grandeur as to evoke a sense of business strategy. From the most miniscule to the most exorbitant of  customer segments …. here is a product segmentation pyramid that attempts to explain the cosmic events becoming prospective business    (Read on to find out) continue