The seven years i spent in the US, one of my great learnings there was “life is super simple in the USA”. Push button automatic simple. If you do A, B WILL happen. Turn the switch on, light will come on. Turn the tap on, water will come out. Call 911, cops will show up. […]
Other than facebook, of course. I have written about how LinkedIn helped usget our first round of funding. It is one tool that i use everyday. We use it for building our team, reaching out to partners/vendors, create visibility for our company, and most importantly, ref check. Building our team: We have hired four senior […]
I love sufi music. I love the coke studio songs from Pakistan even better when they have the sufi singers on them. I am even bigger fan now, because it helped me start running. My brother Aditya told me he started running. I follow @Sidin on twitter. He posted about running 5k with c25k. @bharati.jacob, […]
Everything. In my mind, these guys were setting themselves up for failure for a long time. Here are my top 10 reasons for why flipkart will fail*. In the true spirit of random 10 points to support my argument, i am taking the liberty to generalise a lot of things. And make some up. Anyways, […]
“World Music Day” was yesterday. I had no idea till one of my post was published on Pluggd.in. The post before mine on Pluggd.in was about world music day. It must have been a coincidence. I had written a post about music for startups before i wrote the post “Shoot Me If I Ever Say […]
Been involved directly or indirectly with startups all my working life (except Celera which was a big company but a startup spirit). And its amazing what kind of free and useless advice you can get along the way, particularly in the first 3 or 4 years. I am surprised at how startup founders/team keep ignoring […]
“Sir, I cannot work after 3 pm”. My first reaction was – arre! why would you refuse extra pay for working another hour? It didnt make sense. Then it struck me, she had responded in English. I looked at my wife and as usual, my wife rolled her eyes (which usually means – “you have […]
Jo na jaane Haq ki taaqat JO na jaane Haq ki taaqat rab na deve usko himmat rab na deve usko himmat Hum mann ke dariya mein doobay Hum mann ke dariya mein doobay Kaisi nayya, kya manjhdhaar; haq Watch this great video. Does any one else also think the other musicians look like they […]
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Aewein Larrnaein Shaitaan Dey Naal Bundia (All your battleswith Satan are lost) Kadee Nafs Aprrain Naal Larria Nahein (For you have never tried to fight your own desires)Bulle Shah