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Greenland OR Whiteland?
June 5, 2008 – 3:03 pm
Greenland, as seen from NWA Flight from Amsterdam To Seattle
Finding my way …
June 5, 2008 – 3:01 pm
It can be tricky to find your way ‘right’ to your destination. You may have access to ’system’ which are meant to help you out, but then it depends on how you use them.
Nothing philosphical, I am talking about using GPS system I have in my mobile (HTC Tilt). Its pretty good but then, I still get lost many a times. I need to get used to of the instructions it gives to me while driving.
BTW, did I told you about it? I accepted an offer with MS Headquarters and moved to Redmond, Seattle, WA couple of days back.
Hiring for startups
April 28, 2008 – 2:50 am
This morning i was having discussion with my friend Sumit on hiring strategy for startup. Primarily discussion was on whether to hire experienced folks or a fresher out of college.
My answer was its going to be mix of both experienced and freshers (all size doesnt fit in here) and depends on various things.
It depends on:
- What role & responsibility are we talking about ?
- Is that profile available in market ?
- Importantly, Is that profile ready to join the startup?
- Can we afford that ideal profile?
All of the factors varies with the grwoth of the startup. With its growth, there would be different set of responsibilities/role requirement in the company, Awareness about the startup would be more ( idealistically) and hopefully if there are lots of fundind/revenue happening, you may afford a bomb.
There would always be situations where in you will have to compromise with this (and more), because its not the ideal world. What as an enterpreneur you have to design is, design the jobs/kind of reporting structure, which would optimize your resources.
So what can you do to find good hires? Alot! Checkout tips to attract talent by Vijay
How true that its more costly to live in India
April 8, 2008 – 11:13 pm
Someone said it right, Statistical data is like bikini, which reveals a lot but then keep lot to guess about.
I have been hearing lately about rising inflation in India and its overall contritbution towards global meltdown, but then how do government decide that its costly to live in? Is that truely due to rise in essential commodities?
With small digging, I could find that Wholesale price Index is the primary source for government of India to decide on Inflation.
Wholesale Price Index (WPI) is the price of a representative basket of wholesale goods.
WPI tracks prices of 435 commodities, of which 98 are primary articles, 19 fall in the fuel, power, light & lubricants group and 318 are in the manufactured products group. This list get revised time to time and surprisingly this got last reviwed last in 93-94.
Is it safe to assume that lifestyle of average Indians have remained unchanged for 13-14 years?? I dont think so.
Mobile phones, cable TV, internet and much more..have now become commodity & should get accounted in WPI. There can possibly some argument against some of the commodities about they being ‘actual’ commodities for the nation of billion people, but then surely there are items like ‘mobile phones’ which needs to be in.
Thoughts?
Ram Sriram interviewed
March 23, 2008 – 9:03 pm
Couple of days back when I learnt that Ram Sriram, Founder Sherpalo Ventures (Google is just one of the companies he seed invested) is attending a TiE Session, I was eagerly waiting to hear his views about Indian market and impact on it due to US economy meltdown.
ContentSutra managed to interview him while Sriram got stuck in infamous bangalore traffic. Below are some excerpts.
“…How far behind the curve is India in terms of product innovation?
India is a little bit behind China and US and it’s largely driven by the fact that the size of the market needs to grow. The talent exists, but to build a larger business, you need a larger sandbox. ..” definetly there is lot in there to innovate and market does not have readymade talent.
Read full article here
Sucide attempt by buffalo
March 23, 2008 – 10:11 am
Something happened really funny with one my colleague. A buffalo fell on his car!! literally.
He was driving on his way in his santro car and there was an open lory which was in front of his car moving at decent speed.
At one of the signal, Lorry tried to jump the traffic signal and speeded up at yellow light, but then pressed its brake hard bringing lorry to screatching halt when lorry driver realized that its too late to cross signal.
This lorry was full of buffaloes with open no rear gate, one of buffalo lost her control and rockets out of the lorry and safely landing at bonet of poor santro.
Photo courtesy another blog post about buffaloes royal walk on hyderabadi roads
Thats the end of of the story, and yes end of the car’s bonet as well.
Hyderabad got new airport
March 23, 2008 – 9:45 am
Last week when I flew to Delhi for alumni meet, I was pretty excited because I was expecting myself to be one of the first passenger to get down at new hyderbad airport. But then delay announced by government. due to some technical snag washed my hopes :(
Few minutes back, someone just forwarded me a link to album with photographs of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, talk of the nation, which just started its operation yesterday.
click on the image for album
From pics it appears to be of international quality and I am really eager to check it out myself.
Had a great re-union
March 17, 2008 – 10:04 pm
Last saturday, I went to New Delhi to attend our 2008 Alumni Meet . It was a great experience to meet new people & old friends. We had good representation from college university staff too.
Its amazing to see how alumni have grown in so many years and so does our alma mater.
Country manager to Gladrag fashion model, its an interesting mix of people in the Alumni group which together hold immense potential.
I am glad that I have been choosen to chair this high potential group and I am all for it to make this group as strong as possible.
Virgin mobile is here….
March 10, 2008 – 12:00 am
I was watching Richard Branson’s interview at CNBC yesterday and heard him saying how he has to compromise by becoming MVNO franchize of Tata teleservices to get into Indian telecom space.
Then this morning, I saw ‘Get paid for incoming’ campaign on TOI, which is really a unique & impressive offerring by Virgin Mobile. India is a cost-sensitive market and this offering should definitely click, atleast amongst particular section.
Not sure if I would be switching over to their offering, but yes, really interested to know more about how they are doing in terms of value add , especially when they are planning to deliver little hatke
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