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Building from India
Running a product business from India, and selling mostly outside it.
Is mediocrity the new gold standard?
We are Indian Developers. What China is to manufacturing, India is to software development. Cheap, Bulk, Inferior Quality. Is that true? Here are four experiences from different people.
To fuel retail, move to spendings rather than savings - says Kishore Biyani
I was doing some reading on retail industry in India and watched a presentation Kishore Biyani (of Future Group / Big Bazar / Pantaloons) made in 2008. He made…
India: Cash Rich, Product Poor
Sramana Mitra wrote on Forbes that India has a lot of venture money now, but no tech products. She goes to explain that: India's meteoric rise in the tech world…
It Happened in India - the story of Big Bazaar and Future Group
I have been seeing the book - It Happened In India - around, and was interested in finding out more about it. The book is about Kishore Biyani - the man who…
Make IRCTC Better
As promised, here's the post on IRCTC - India's largest ecommerce site. I tell you how it does not work, and how we can make it work! Last Thursday, I decided…
IT Engineer Skills are neither tested nor sufficient
Was going through my pending stack of magazines this Sunday and made a lot of interesting observations. RedHerring says India's IT industry keeps booming, and…
Ethics and HR in large companies - mutually exclusive?
Two guys from our QA section broke their contract and joined L10NBridge last month. First, one guy disappeared (called up the morning and said I am not coming!)…
Love of Gujarati language
After Chitralekha did a story on us (GujaratiLexicon and Utkarsh, Chitralekha site requires special font download to view the site in Gujarati); we have been…