A Hindi music company from the 80’s just beat PewDiePie in YouTube subscriber count! Many Indians use YouTube as a radio station. They ignore the video and instead just listen to the audio stream. Mostly songs and news. Audio is… Continue Reading →
With over a billion people armed with decent mobiles and internet speeds enabling live-streaming, mobile gaming is finally fulfilling the promise of games for all. Console/PC gaming (mostly US/Korea/Japan) never scaled up. It needed expensive hardware (Xbox/Playstation/PC), a large screen… Continue Reading →
There will always be space for new age social networks. Not because of technology, but because you are getting older!
We recently had to go through a partial round of layoffs and some people in our team were let go. I have written about my thoughts and, more importantly, on what you can do for your people in such a… Continue Reading →
Sitting down to breakfast today, I had an uncontrollable attack of positivity! 2016 could have been better, sure. 2017 is going to be great, I feel. Things are lining up nicely on the home and work front. Yes, there are… Continue Reading →
Because it is always more difficult to build something of value and easy to destroy. Because it takes time to create and just a moment to reduce to rubble. Because people who have toiled their life away cannot see it… Continue Reading →
So I finally decided to make use of some old laptops around office and see if we could make them into “browser machines” Things should be easy. But I found some issues during install and hope to document my solutions… Continue Reading →
I could write on how X or Y or Z are to be blamed for the flare-up and goof-up and public display of dirty laundry. But who am I kidding here. The newspapers are already having a field day with this story…. Continue Reading →
Here is a recent post on a survey of potential employees and if they would join a startup in India … Q1: Are you willing to join a startup? Insights: Response to this question was a big surprise as more… Continue Reading →
It’s always a huge boost to young startups to see validation of any kind. Sure, validation by customers who vote with their wallets is the *best* kind of validation, but the other kinds don’t hurt either ;-) We recently applied… Continue Reading →