Archive for the 'Ideas/Work' Category

Being a good friend vs best friend

« 24 August 2008 at 3:21 pm | No Comments
Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Being a good friend is about knowing what that person likes.
Being a best friend is about knowing what that person dislikes.



New phone and a sign of the times

« 27 March 2008 at 8:40 am | 7 Comments
Personal, Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: »

Ok, so I went ahead and retired my most beloved, most excellent, the most most, k750i with another Sony Ericsson model … the P1i (see P1i photos)
It’s a pretty cool phone, as phones go. And it was a tough choice between P1i and the iPhone (Arvind, Jace and Suramya, un-drop your jaws now).
Firstly, why the […]



Should I use Wood products or not?

« 17 March 2008 at 6:44 am | 3 Comments
Ideas/Work, Frugal | Tags: »

There is an argument in my mind.
Should I reduce plastic wastage and use wood based products where alternatives are possible or try to stop cutting down more trees?
Very often there aren’t options that don’t use plastic or wood. Whats an eco-lover got to do?
Or, maybe just reduce consumption overall??
Much easier than it sounds.
:-(



IdeaBlob.com

« 27 September 2007 at 12:00 pm | No Comments
Ideas/Work | Tags: review ideablob »

I’ve just posted my first idea on IdeaBlob, a website for entrepreneurs and small businesses to share and discuss ideas/challenges.
So, before you do anything else today, please take a minute to view the idea I posted http://ideablob.com/ideas/315 and vote for it.
Also, if you have some ideas yourself, I’d recommend atleast try the rest of the website […]



What an Entrepreneur needs

« 20 September 2007 at 1:15 am | 1 Comment
Personal, MindPillar, Ideas/Work, Resume | Tags: Startup Entrepreneur social network Josh Quittner Business 2.0 »

(with apologies to Josh Quittner, whose mag Business 2.0 I totally loved)
But, Seriously!
As an entrepreneur … I don’t need another social network letting me meet and chat with other entrepreneurs. Sure it’s all nice and fuzzy and maybe sometimes helpful meeting other entrepreneurs, but hearing from more than a few at a time and it’s over-kill. […]



Making a usable product - nothing’s changed

« 1 August 2007 at 4:56 pm | 2 Comments
Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: Entrepreneur customer service »

#3 of seven lessons for startups from Intuit
3)     Your competitor is not other companies, but the way that things are done now.   Forty-six companies sold accounting packages at the time Quicken entered the market.   But Scott Cook found that Intuit’s real competitor was paper and pencil.  None of the other packages could balance a […]



Help me Beta Test

« 16 July 2007 at 9:58 am | 2 Comments
General, Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: facebook app facebook api testimonials facebook »

So, after burning the midnight oil for multiple weekends, I’ve finally gotten my first FaceBook app ready for public viewing (and testing!)
It’s called Testimonials and you can add it to your facebook profile by going to http://apps.facebook.com/mytestimonials/
What does it do:Testimonials is a application that lets you write simple testimonials for your friends and in return, […]



Whats a startup owner to do?

« 14 June 2007 at 10:36 am | No Comments
Cool people, Ideas/Work | Tags: Startup Entrepreneur »

I just learnt this from my uncle …
As a business-owner, you just walk in each day, take a look at current problems and fix them. Thats it.You don’t add value to your company in any other way.You are a problem-solver. Live with it.



Better timelines

« 29 May 2007 at 10:50 am | No Comments
Cool people, Techy, Ideas/Work | Tags: Software timeline »

I have this thing for timelines. I really get excited when I see data in the form of timelines … maybe it’s because they give me the historical perspective in a clean and quick format.
Google tried it’s hand at timelines (read my previous post)
However, in my search for the perfect timeline tool … this is […]



Analogies: And why I love then

« 29 May 2007 at 10:33 am | No Comments
General, Personal, Ideas/Work | Tags: analogies thinking »

Surabhi often takes issue with my liberal use of analogies when explaining both business/technology related topics as well as daily usage discussions/thoughts.
Her problem seemed to stem from the really obscure analogies I use in my conversations (and also, why I even bothered to use analogies in the first place!)
Well, here ya go … there are other people […]




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