HackerTV is broadcasting Startup School 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 the mind of tech-industry greats. A streaming video…
Wealth intrigues me. 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’ve pondered…
If, economist and author, Ben Stein can be taken seriously, he has some sound advice to share about getting rich. Some excerpts: The top 1 percent (of all wealth-holders in the U.S.) own about 44 percent of the financial assets of the nation. The top 10 percent own about…
Recently, Vishal Sharma 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, and the Top Web2.0 Apps in Australia survey. I’m…
With the announcement last night of Google App Engine, it’s now literally possible to build your entire web app on top of Google’s vaunted infrastructure – the BigTable, CPU cycles, and bandwidth – all courtesy Google. It has already been possible to do that (and more)…
The other day I was reading an article on Rediff, “Why can’t Indians build a great product in India?“. It got me thinking about the scale of impact that strategies like seed funding in micro-enterprises can have on innovation in India. In my opinion, backoffice outsourcing…
I came across this website called CyberEconomics 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 who do not understand economics still try…
A recent article at Forbes titled “The Coming Death Of Indian Outsourcing” 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 India’s foreign-exchange inflows, according to Nasscom, an Indian IT industry…