Apr
15
India Post: Innovation In An 150-yr Old Organization
April 15, 2008 | 5 Comments
I don’t watch TV regularly, but a show called Startup Junkies caught my attention as I was channel surfing. Start-up Junkies takes you behind the scenes of a growing start-up company, Earth Class Mail, as it attempts to raise funding, build a team, develop a prototype and find new customers and partners.
In a nutshell, Earth [...]
Jun
16
Practical Lesson In Financial Accounting
June 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
If you are a small business under 10M in sales revenue, you have the option of either using cash-based or accrual-based accounting. And if you’re in a business that has a high percent of Account Receivables, you’re better off using cash-based accounting. Why? Because you’re paying taxes upfront on income you won’t [...]
May
13
Web2.0 in the enterprise
May 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Web 2.0 is all about the transition from individual productivity (user running MS office locally) to group productivity (collective document generation & editing – forums & wikis).
Enterprise Web 2.0 benefits:
Less email costs (increased use of blogs, wikis)
Search benefits (document collection and archive)
Easier [...]
May
12
Death of the Newspaper?
May 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Livmint has published two articles that have contradictory headlines - first about readers, advertisers and analysts abandoning newspapers and second about the increase in newspaper circulation.
The panelists and participants at the Web 2.0 Expo had no doubts in their mind - the Internet was killing the newspaper, and the newspaper readers are a dying breed.
Some [...]
Apr
29
From the makers of the ubiquitous Stag umbrella
April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Fast Company has an interesting write up on the change in strategy by the makers of the Stag umbrellas. If you’re from Mumbai, you need no further introduction to the ubiquitous, black Stag umbrellas and the reasons to own one.
Threatened by cheaper products from China, the company switched from a low cost strategy to [...]
Mar
17
Datta Meghe CoE: What’s up with the board of directors?
March 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment
I never paid attention as to who’s on my school’s board, not when I enrolled to Datta Meghe College of Engineering (DMCE) for my Bachelors or at NYU Stern for my MBA. I don’t think any student ever does. But I would imagine the board of directors/trustees are important people entrusted and [...]
