HackerTV [http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/] is broadcasting Startup School [http://startupschool.org/] 2008, an all-day event that covers pretty much everything one would ever want to know about technology startups. A crowd of over 650 developers, writers, and entrepreneurs packed Stanford’s Kresge Auditorium for a chance to pick…
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.…
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]…
I came across this website called CyberEconomics [http://ingrimayne.com/econ/TOC.html] the other day, that explains the various aspects of micro and macro economics. I studied economics back in school as well as in college, but the approach quoted below made much more sense than before: > People…
A recent article at Forbes titled “The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing [http://www.forbes.com/home/enterprisetech/2008/02/29/mitra-india-outsourcing-tech-enter-cx_sm_0229outsource.html] ” reads: > Information technology and IT-enabled services will employ 4 million people in 2008 and account for 7% of gross domestic product and 33% of…