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‘Entreception’ = Entrepreneurs + Inception can be the new Bible of Success!

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Rodinhood

One of the biggest dangers of entrepreneurship is that you fall in love with what you are doing and even when events turn ugly, you refuse to ‘wake up’. Like in the movie Inception, you have to watch out for Mal. Else your dream will become your death…
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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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Why Facebook deserves to be a real Country…

Posted on March 16, 2010 by rodinhood

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 →

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Our Clients are our VC’s..

Posted on February 21, 2010 by rodinhood

Situation: 2003 – Post dot com bust. My co-founder GK (Gopala Krishnan) and I had launched a mobile business called mobile2win in China and India and were gaining solid traction. We had been awarded the Indian Idol business by Sony … Continue reading →

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Why the Chinese buy Internet Media on a ‘time’ basis

Posted on February 14, 2009 by rodinhood

During my experience in China during 2001-2003, I never paid much attention to why the leading websites in the country sold their media on a ‘time’ basis - so essentially Sina, Sohu and Netease would sell their impressions and banners on … Continue reading →

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