Vishal Sharma announced a carnival event for Aussie startups 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’s Startups blog. This carnival will…
Chris Anderson has written a great article on the future of business — moving to freeconomics, a freemium business model. A must read! The rise of “freeconomics” is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore’s law dictates that a unit…
He was the creator of Yahoo Store, the first web-based application. Paul Graham, who now runs YCombinator – a seed funding for tech startups, released the Arc programming language, which is a new dialect of Lisp. Since then, there’s been a low end of opinions and furor over…
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…
I wrote about Bill Gates philanthropic work earlier. While Bill Gates will step down from his role at Microsoft this July, Melinda Gates talks about living with Bill, working with Warren Buffett, and giving away their billions. And of course the kids have asked whether their parents will provide for…
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. Today, when we talk of corpocracy, its…
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.…
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” when you’re getting ready to introduce your new product or service. By using…