BarCampMumbai – Mahesh Murthy’s talk

Mahesh Murthy is talking about online advertising, marketing and mathematics right now. Pretty interesting concepts. The idea of buying ad words for phrases that are not so common, but still relevant, is great. The money search engines make, the money an advertiser would end up paying if he choses wrong ad words, and the methods […]

Apollo 13 – Leadership lessons

We had a screening of Apollo 13 yesterday. This was the first movie in the Leadership workshop, and everyone enjoyed it. I was thrilled to see the various types and perspectives of leadership in the movie. Right from the flight director – Gene Kranz, Jim Lovell (the commander) and everybody else. The different moods of […]

Five startups out to change the world

Business 2.0 magazine has a piece on 5 valley startups that will change the world. From $300 student laptops to prefab homes, to playing games with your thoughts! These ideas are really cool, and have the potential to make a huge impact. Check them out! Business 2.0 – Five startups out to change the world

Finding the right talent

It’s become so darn difficult to find good programmers (or managers) these days! Watching some TV show the other day and it said IT companies are going to have 45% shortfall on their recruitment needs this year! We are already facing it! We’ve been running our current recruitment drive for last two months, and have […]

Ten Lessons for Investors

Here are ten lessons for investors. Adapted from an article from Centrum‘s magazie – Money Compass. Be wary of complex investment strategies with fancy names that claim to be new and different. In stock market, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The only predictable thing about stocks, is their unpredictability. So […]