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The Ride.
Moneybags said, ‘That’s not my style. I will still pay you double. I like to travel First Class. Even if the seats are the same, I will expect you to pretend to respect me more when I pay you double. So, it’s First Class. Capito?’…In the sky, the Setting Sun hand shook the Rising Sun. The rays of both Suns hit the Cab and suddenly a realization dawned: Services, Products and Platforms were all value creators and equally important. It was an entrepreneur’s choice to take up any of these routes. Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech, Just for fun, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Alok Kejriwal, Apple, Business Model, Comfortably Numb, Databases, Elevator Pitch, Entrepreneurs, Exit, First Class, Fleetwood Mac, Google Documents, GPS, Linkedin, MBA, Microsoft, Mobile Phones, Moneybags, MSOffice, Oracle, Pagers, Pink Floyd, Platforms, Product, Radio, Rodinhood, Rodinhood Blog, Service Business, Services business, Supertramp, Taxi, television, therodinhoods.com, Twitter, Vampire, VCs
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So you think you can ‘Start-Up’? Take my FURNACE test first…
Ready for the FURNACE test? Almost every other day I get an odd mail from someone in a B-School or working in a corporate job wanting to ‘start-up’. I am polite to all of them saying ‘think again’ but … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Business, conferences, Entreprenuership
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The buffet is dead – long live A la Carte
Once in a while I still succumb to the buffet – typically when I am too tired to review menus or when I am with a bunch of folks. The decision immediately stinks after the soup and starter (the oldest … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech
Tagged A la Carte, Baskin Robbins, Broadband, BSNL, Buffet, Call of Duty, CD's, Consoles, Dominos, Doordarshan, Farmville, Flight Simulator, GTA, HBO, HDFC Mutual Funds, Insurance, Investments, LIC, LP's, Mafia Wars, Microsoft, MP3, MTNL, Napster, Star Movies, Tata Sky, Walkman
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So, you think you know when to clap?
One of the most fascinating and often argued mannerisms is about clapping between ‘movements’ in a western classical concert. I have observed this ‘never spoken of but assumed protocol’ with great interest over many years in concert halls all over the … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences
Tagged Beethoven, Bernstein, Clapping, Classical Music, Concert Halls, Concerts, Dictums, London Symphony Orchestra, Mannerisms, Movements, Mozart, Stravinsky, White Hair
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Why Facebook deserves to be a real Country…
If you think hard, the biggest problem in running a country is effective communication between people running it and the people living in it as citizens. Marie Antoinette asked people to eat a cake when they were starving and was … Continue reading
Posted in Just for fun
Tagged China, countries, facebook, Kim Jong, Manmohan Singh, Marie Antoinette, Rahul Gandhi, Social Media
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Can you imagine reading a really gripping novel with full-page ads in the middle of its pages? Or imagine watching a movie that keeps getting interrupted by ads? If we, as consumers, detest ads so much, why do we … Continue reading
Value lies in the eyes of the beholder..
Neeraj immediately called Ranga in my presence and began an interesting conversation – Do you deal with c2w? How is their work? Do you like the team? He then asked – why don’t you pay them? Ranga replied something that made him get up and walk out of the room. A few minutes later he came back. Continue reading