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End Game

2011-03-01T17:30:00.001+05:30

I read a very nice article other day in live mint written by Sanjeev Bikhchandani, co-founder of Naukri.com. He talks about his experience with VC community. He says they had hard time convincing VC that they don’t have an intention for exit any time sooner. They are in it for a long run. How ever for a VC it is not so as he has a stipulated timeline to exit. He will always have an End Game in

First few baby steps as entrepreneur

2011-02-25T11:54:00.000+05:30

“Magic of Thinking Big” is the book which changed my life. I still remember the day when I decided to change my field from harder Mechanical to the much softer IT. I never thought I would be coming so far. I have covered many a distance in the last 10 years. My entry to Bangalore was the turning point for me. After that I didn’t look back. Not to mention how difficult the turn was. People bunk

Rules of the Jungle

2011-02-25T11:40:00.000+05:30

Often in paper and the television it is portrayed that success in entrepreneurship is overnight. But it is far away from the truth. We need to see how long the so called “over night” was. For some it is years and for some it is months. The later ones are the luckiest. Very often it takes many years to accomplish. In the recent years however some of the tech companies like YouTube & Skype have

ಅನಿಸುತಿದೆ ಯಾಕೋ ಇಂದು

2011-02-25T11:09:00.001+05:30

ಅನಿಸುತಿದೆ ಯಾಕೋ ಇಂದು ನೀನೇನೆ ನನ್ನವಳೆಂದು ಮಾಯದಾ ಲೋಕದಿಂದ ನನಗಾಗಿ ಬಂದವಳೆಂದು ಆಹಾ! ಎಂತ ಮದುರಾ ಯಾತನೆ ಕೊಲ್ಲು ಹುಡುಗಿಯೊಮ್ಮೆ ನನ್ನ ಹಾಗೆ ಸುಮ್ಮನೆ ಮುಂಗಾರು ಮಳೆಯ ಹಾಡನ್ನು ಕೇಳದವರೇ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಜಯಂತ್ ಕಾಯ್ಕಿಣಿಯ ಬರಹ ತುಂಬಾ ಮದುರವಾಗಿ ಹಾಡಲ್ಲಿ ಬಂದಿದೆ. ಭಗ್ನ ಪ್ರೇಮಿಯ ಇ ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಮತ್ತು ನೋವನ್ನು ಅನುಭವಿಸಿದವರೇ ಬಲ್ಲರು. ಆಹಾ! ಎಂತ ಮದುರ ಯಾತನೆ.

Software Product Management, how different it is from the traditional?

2011-02-24T12:42:00.000+05:30

I have been fortunate to work on Product Management for the most of my career till date. I have worked on all the aspects of PM, be it innovation or market research or productisation of an idea or market launch. I often got the opportunity to meet Product Managers from different industries. On one such occasion I met a Product Manager from Auto industry, one of the most matured industry. We

Feeling sleepy

2010-02-01T13:46:00.003+05:30

Its 2 pm in the afternoon and I am feeling sloppy. Don't know why.Usually I don't feel this way. May be its because of the rush in the last week. I am sitting at client place in Pune and needs to prepare for the status meetings. Yes, to tell them what we did in the last week. These review meetings some time are so funny, you should attend some of them. I remember some funny incidents happened in

Back to Stoneage

2009-04-29T14:49:00.003+05:30

A political party in India wants us to take back to stone age. Very recently the party's top leader made a statement of getting rid of computers if they win election -09. If these leaders have educated children, should ask if they will vouch for it. I bet they won't. Any lay man with some common sense will say computers are the way to go. In an era where people are talking about progress using

Padya - 2

2009-03-06T17:00:00.000+05:30

ಜೀವ ಜಡರೂಪ ಪ್ರಪಂಚವನದಾವುದೋ |ಆವರಿಸಿಕೊಂಡುಮೊಳನೆರೆದುಮಿಹುದಂತೆ ||ಭಾವಕೊಳಪಡದಂತೆ ಅಳತೆಗಳವಡದಂತೆ |ಆ ವಿಶೇಷಕೆ ಮಣಿಯೊ - ಮಂಕುತಿಮ್ಮ | ೨ |This world of living and non living forms, is surrounded by an unknown energy, which is complete by itself, which is beyond imagination, which can't be measured, let us bow down to this superior

An Introduction to Mankutimmana Kagga

2009-03-02T22:31:00.000+05:30

Mankutimmana Kagga is one of the finest literary works in Kannada. It is written by Dr D V Gundappa famously known as DVG in the early 40's. It is a collection of 945 poems written in 'Halegannada' meaning 'Old Kannada'.I will write the poem and its meaning in English starting from this article.ಶ್ರೀ ವಿಷ್ಣು ವಿಶ್ವಾದಿಮೂಲ ಮಾಯಾಲೋಲ,ದೇವ ಸರ್ವೇಶ ಪರಬೊಮ್ಮನೆಂದು ಜನಂ ||ಆವುದನು ಕಾಣದೊಡಮಳ್ತಿಯಿಂ ನಂಬಿಹುದೊ |ಆ

Slumdog with an Oscar

2009-02-24T00:26:00.000+05:30

Today the whole country is proud on Rehaman. He got his first Oscar award for his original score "Jaya Ho". Though not one of his best, I am at least happy that Oscar awarded for the one who deserved it from quite some time. Rehaman is working with foreigner directors for a while now. All his hard work paid results now. Congratulation to the whole Slumdog Millionaire crew for your great

'A (Hole)iday in Techie’s life'

2009-02-17T01:08:00.000+05:30