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Confessions of a Digital Entrepreneur…
I have many scars of entrepreneur wars that I wear on my back. My lessons learning to be really patient, taking money when its available and selling when the going is good – not just when the time is right! Continue reading
Dear God, Do you understand your Mobile Bill?
Mobile companies cheat consumers by generating hard to understand bills. The consumer gets so befuddled and confused, that she typically just pays up. Continue reading
My driver plays obscene songs as his caller tune and I pay the bill
Well, I have no option. This is the Indian Mobile Mafia at play that adds all kinds of value added services to their subscribers’ phones without their permission Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech
Tagged CRBT, India, mobile, operators, ring tones, telecom, TRAI, VAS
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Have you partnered with thieves and robbers?
Look at the love triangle – Pirates love our content and steal our games. We love ads and place ‘invisible to visible’ ads in our games. Consumers love games and they play them on all kinds of websites all over the world!!
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The Al Dente Moment – What Pasta can teach Entrepreneurs!
If there was ever a perfect ‘Al Dente’ moment, it was when Steve Case sold AOL to Time Warner. A small fledgling company positioned itself so cleverly to an old media behemoth and the values that it extracted are now historical and soul shattering. Unfortunately, in the case of Time Warner, what they thought was ‘Al Dente’ Internet Pasta turned out to be Al Dente Rotting Garbage. Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Al dente, AOL, China, Clearstone Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs, Games2win, Hotmail, Indian Idol, Mahesh Khambadkone, Microsoft, MMOG, Mobile2win, Pasta, PRC, Sabeer Bhatia, SMS, Steve Case, Time Warner, VAS, VCs, yahoo
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Eleven Learnings I swear by!
I purposely say ‘dropped cricked catch’ because not executing a great idea can be as painful as dropping a cricket catch – you will not be able to forgive yourself. Example – the Winklevoss twins who had the original ‘facebook’ idea and innocently assigned someone else (hmmm…we know who) to execute it. Continue reading
A Stormtrooper pays me a visit…
Are you humanoid 257142 of Inter Galactic Milky way planet Earth immediately hissed a menacing electronic voice……
There is no good or bad side. It’s just what you believe in. It’s all about a balance between two sides. In case of entrepreneurs, so many decisions can be labeled as ‘dark side’.
Stormtrooper spoke ‘I think your readers will benefit from just understanding how we function – not why we function. We are extremely organized. We know exactly what to do and how to do it. Entrepreneurs often don’t get into the finer details of execution and that harms them quickly’. Continue reading