Vishal Sharma announced a carnival event for Aussie startups [http://startups.sharmavishal.com/2008/02/why-this-startups-carnival.html] a few weeks ago. Unfortunately the registration is closed by the time I’m writing about it, but more information about the event (including the participating startups and sponsors) is available on Vishal’…
Chris Anderson has written a great article on the future of business [http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=all] — moving to freeconomics, a freemium [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemium_business_model] business model. A must read! > The rise of “freeconomics” is being driven…
He was the creator [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1761] of Yahoo Store, the first web-based application. Paul Graham [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham], who now runs YCombinator – a seed funding for tech startups, released [http://www.paulgraham.com/arc0.html] the Arc programming language [http://arclanguage.…
In 1957 Hindustan Motors rolled out the first Ambassador car. Sturdy and rounded, the Ambassador still races on Indian roads, ironically serving both as a taxi cab as well as a official transport for government officials. These 50 years of the Ambassador have represented India’s indigenous efforts in the…
I wrote [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2007/12/07/life-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy/] about Bill Gates philanthropic work earlier. While Bill Gates will step down from his role at Microsoft this July, Melinda Gates talks [http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/04/news/newsmakers/gates.fortune/index.htm] about living with Bill,…
Books on history and sociology tell us that as civilization grew, we created rules. A group of “powerful” people introduced governments. Then a smaller group of “wealthy” people made corporations. And gradually, the dynamics changed from democracy to corpocracy [http://www.amazon.com/Corpocracy-Business-Roundtable-Hijacked-Greatest/dp/0470145099/ref=pd_bbs_sr_…
In the tech community, people often believe that an “idea” can make them the next Google or the next Facebook. However, its not essentially the idea that drives the wagon. It’s the simplicity of the idea in solving something that matters. Take the toothbrush for example. It’s a…
Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge weekly newsletter had an interesting article, authored by marketing professor John Quelch about how you can take advantage of what he calls the “Scarcity Illusion Strategy [http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5776.html]” when you’re getting ready to introduce your new product or…