Posts Tagged ‘Business’
What Do Startups Need?
Posted by: Vijay on: September 9, 2008
Seems like that’s the kind of question a lot of companies which are looking to support, nurture and grow alongside Startups are asking themselves these days.
I’m invited to be part of a fairly small panel that is to discuss on this very topic tomorrow in Bangalore in a short meetup that Sun Microsystems is putting [...]
Build to Last: Follow the Old Fashioned way.
Posted by: Vijay on: April 24, 2008
During a recent flight trip, I was mulling over what it would possibly take to build a company that lasts. I donno, call me weird or plan simple narcissistic, but I’d like to build a company that is around till I am, or even beyond. I meet plenty of folks, especially within the entrepreneurial community [...]
The Only Survival Strategies.
Posted by: Vijay on: April 21, 2008
Venture Capitalists and Entrepreneurs call it Business Models. Economists call it as Game theories. They are such fabulously mind-stimulating equations. The equation which essentially makes someone give up hard, liquid cash in order to avail a service, and enable you to make a profit. It’s really quite as simple as that.
How do you get to [...]
Ideas to Toss: Getty Images for India.
Posted by: Vijay on: April 18, 2008
Do you know how much India spends on Advertisement budgeting at the moment? a Whopping 400 crores. Did you know that the Times Group makes a heck of a lot of money in their outdoor advertisement business? I am quoted numbers as high as 60% of all outdoor billboards in Mumbai belonging to the Times [...]
The Sacred Dance of the Trio.
Posted by: Vijay on: April 15, 2008
The legendary duel between a technologist and a marketer is a well known one. Most would claim that they are the extremes and one that cannot be subdued. In every company, especially one that specializes in building products, everyone has a tough time balancing the interactions that go on between these two sets of people. [...]
Bottomlines: Explained.
Posted by: Vijay on: April 8, 2008
The world is in one of those stages where the more bottomlines you use, the more favourable you turn into. Yep, its true.
People in Europe and the west have a way of throwing around jargons. In India, we execute our revenge using abbreviations, it seems. But all said and done, using jargons and terminologies are [...]
The Unmistakable Trait of a Kick-ass Startup
Posted by: Vijay on: March 21, 2008
“Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” — Pablo Picasso
What is it that makes a great startup? It’s a question that I have been pondering over for sometime now actually and I thought I’d start a conversation around the same. So What makes a startup great? Is it It’s [...]
Ideas to Toss: Food Outlet Chain in Colleges
Posted by: Vijay on: March 6, 2008
It all occured to me when I was invited for a panel in an engineering college here in Chennai and the drive seemed to last longer than the allocated time for my talk. The college is 40kms away from the heart of the city and needless to say right in the middle of developmental regions. [...]
You are Too Young to Be Trying This.
Posted by: Vijay on: November 25, 2007
The last time i heard such statements too frequently was when I was bootstrapping my first company, was verging on entrepreneurship as a lifestyle and all, and i was sixteen. It’s been more than a decade, and I am still hearing those voices in my life.
This is not a post where we talk about what [...]
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- A New Kind of Incubation Model. Part II
- Ideas to Toss: Car Wash
- A Global Telecom ARPU Snapshot
- Ideas to Toss: Getty Images for India.
- Proto.in Chat: Democratizing Entrepreneurship
- Making E-commerce Work in India.
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