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You can only laugh so much!
I really don’t know why and when in the human evolution curve people really begin to laugh. Same thing goes for crying, how people could really express their sorrow by making that face? But I believe, one can cry for an extended duration. Which means, people can sustain crying for a really long time like…
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The Start-Up Culture!
When Start-ups are small, they are like tight groups of like minded people who want to make it large. When they want to grow aggressively, they want young hot blood. People who are ready to do anything and everything under the sun. All that these hot-heads know is they have to work hard and party…
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The Start-up Generation
Breakneck speed. Blitzkrieg! It is good to hear about organizations which grow at mind-blowing pace. Keeping aside the valuations , business models and other jargon, the key resources of these high growth juggernauts happen to be humans. These humans also run at breakneck speeds on an infinite treadmill to keep a pace with the start-up.…
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The NGO’s vs the GO’s
I have a very different view about NGO’s. Two or three years back I had written a very long article on why we need 2 million NGO’s in India. My contention was why 2 million NGO’s want to do all the good in a country of 1000 million. I see that we have a huge…
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Ludo and 20-20 cricket have their share of similarities
From last two weeks or so , I have been hooked on the game of Ludo. Yeah , that game you find on the reverse side of Snakes and Ladders. This game never fails to excite me. Every roll of dice is a new hope. Every game is a different game. No one knows who…
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Value Conflicts
I always thought that good and bad values are relative concepts but I never came to a strong rationale or understanding of how to reason and explain the relativity between the two. But yesterday after watching some documentaries on the Crusades, I could draw some inferences.The framework to understand value conflicts was not so complicated…
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Why Online Job Portals Are Not Effective
There are three elements necessary to run a successful online job platform. The first element is freemium which is based on the many who use its basic services for free. The next element is called premium which is based on the idea that some users will end up paying for differentiated features. We are going…
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Who Will Win in the Sharing Economy?
It had taken me a while to spot my Uber cab. “ Location pey aao” doesn’t work so well at the airport. Then the driver tells me to wait at pick-up point D. No sign of him for the next few minutes.Just when I thought he might have canceled the ride , I spot the…
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Value of Bitcoin lies in the eyes of the beholder
“You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of bitcoin is. I haven’t been able to do it.” Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve. Last year , I had a long conversation with a friend who wanted to invest in Bitcoin. The outcome of the discussion was uncomplicated. Since…
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Warren Buffet Mania Needs a Break
Carl Icahn is worth $16 billion. Carl Studied at the Princeton University, married twice and has three kids.Some of you who might have heard about Carl Icahn may have a hint or two as to why I am opening an article titled Warren Buffet with introduction of Carl. For those who couldn’t connect, Carl is…