Tag Archives: Business Models

What Entrepreneurs must learn from Fashion Models!

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Rodinhood

One day, when I was on my regular ‘contest begging’ trips, I was stunned when the brand manager of Liril Soaps (a Unilever Company product) said, ‘Alok, don’t harass me. We make soaps here – not contests. If you like contests so much, why don’t you make them and pitch them to me, rather than the other way around’……. On introspection, it was so clear why the games succeeded in China – with no mass entertainment options available (TV and films are state controlled) and very cold weather, Chinese teens were happy to lock themselves into gaming dens and play away for hours non stop. On the other hand, in India, with 3 bollywood movies releasing a week; 500 channels on TV and very warm and ambient weather, teems cared a damn to sit in suffocating game parlors and play online games with silly dragons and elves Continue reading →

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Dear God, Do you understand your Mobile Bill?

Posted on June 11, 2010 by rodinhood

I swear (on GOD), that I can just about manage to run a Company, keep investors happy, drive cars on both sides of roads and even identify a western classical musical piece, but I just cannot understand my mobile bill. … Continue reading →

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Confessions of a Digital Entrepreneur…

Posted on June 5, 2010 by rodinhood

I was born and brought up in a Marwari family where breakfast, lunch and dinner conversations (granny included) were about deals struck and money made. I guess that’s where I inherited my ‘entrepreneurial dna’. It’s only after working in my … Continue reading →

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Why have all become Farmers (Farmville) and Hit Men (Mafia Wars)?

Posted on January 30, 2010 by rodinhood

In the past few weeks, if you haven’t received requests in your in-box to help your friends on their farms on Farmville or help do a few con jobs in Mafia Wars, then you’ve probably moved residence from planet earth. … Continue reading →

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Why Steve Jobs and Apple should make the ‘iCar’.

Posted on December 4, 2009 by rodinhood

OK, so Steve Jobs has done it all. He is at the top of his game, and has very little left to prove. At least in the pc, software, consumer electronics and digital music domain. Perfect timing for President Obama … Continue reading →

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