Wealth intrigues me [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=wealth]. And, it amuses me, because at times I wonder if there’s anything close to “adequate wealth”, or maybe, “good enough to last long” wealth. We are chasing wealth, but it comes with no guarantee of happiness. So I’…
If, economist and author, Ben Stein [http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/bio/yourlife/ben-stein] can be taken seriously, he has some sound advice to share about getting rich [http://finance.yahoo.com/expert/article/yourlife/24513]. Some excerpts: > The top 1 percent (of all wealth-holders in the U.S.…
In the cloud computing space, there’s the SaaS model, its cousin DaaS [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2008/04/06/daas-the-cousin/], and their distant mate – Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). All the “XaaS” platforms exist and operate under the same umbrella, so to speak. The “Comparing Amazon’s and Google’s Platform-as-a-Service…
The thought behind this post has been vaguely floating in my mind for the past few weeks. A quick preface first. Medicine has advanced enormously. Genome mapping, human cloning, or even plastic surgery would have been considered far fetched by the common man a century ago, but in the past…
So, everyone lies – at some point, in some form, to various degrees. Kids lie, because [http://nymag.com/news/features/43893/] they are just copying their parents. I came across Raul’s ‘mesmeric yet whimsical’ rant about the lies he told his 3 year old [http://www.mexicanpictures.com/headingeast/…
Recently, Vishal Sharma [http://blog.sharmavishal.com/] and I decided to devote some of our time towards a dedicated blog portal covering technology startups and interviews with prominent people from IT, TeleComm and Green Tech. Vishal successfully led the Australian Startups Carnival [http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/03/summary-australian-startups-carnival.html]…
With the announcement last night of Google App Engine [http://appengine.google.com/], it’s now literally possible to build your entire web app on top of Google’s vaunted infrastructure – the BigTable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigTable], CPU cycles, and bandwidth – all courtesy Google. It has already been…
The other day I was reading an article on Rediff, “Why can’t Indians build a great product in India? [http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2008/mar/03druvaa.htm]“. It got me thinking about the scale of impact that strategies like seed funding [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_funding]…