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The 9 Best Conversations I have had in my life – and the lessons I learnt from them!
He said, “Alok, we have taken a good look at mobile2win India. We like the business, the Company and the management. We are moving towards sending the board a term sheet to make a large investment. However, we have also decided to acquire your shares since we believe you are not adding any value to the Company.” Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Ajay Mathur, Bala Deshpade, Bill Elkus, C&A, Clearstone Venture Partners, Contests2win.com, Courtaulds, eVentures, GK, Intel, Jim Armstrong, Kamini Banga, Neeraj Bhargava, Norwest Venture Partners, Renuka Ramnath, socks, Sumant Mandal, Thota Ranganath, Trident, Vab Goel, Xintiandi
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7 Reasons why you MUST know SALES!
When I was 17 years old, a real estate agent – M.M Goyal of Jaico Real Estates in Mumbai told me a Hindi dialog. He said ‘Vyaapari woh, Jo Bechta bhala’. Translated, it means ‘The businessman who knows how to ‘Sell’ is truly successful”.
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Posted in Experiences, Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Annapurna, Channel V, Contests2win.com, Dinesh Chandra, Fortune 500 Brands, Gareth Thomas, Gunender Kapur, Harvard Business School, Hindustan Lever, Jaico, Jet Airways, Job Interview, Mobile2win, Neeraj Bhargava, Raj Menon, Rajesh Jog, Rajiv Hiranandani, Rodinhood.com, Sales, Sony India, Thota Ranganath, Venture Capital, Vivek Paul
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The Seven Subjects I learnt at Marwari Business School (MBS)
I learnt Seven important subjects at Marwari Business School – these were Monetization Mentality, Accounting Archery, Righteous Rigor, Waiting and Watching, Attitude Adjustments, Risks and Rewards and Innovative Ingenuity. Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Accounting, Attitude, Bottom Line, C&A, Chartered Accountant, Contests2win.com, Cotton Yarn, Marwari, Melange, Mobile2win, Monetization, Money, PF, Provident Fund, Rajiv Hiranandani, Revenue, Righteous, Shaw Wallace, Sitting, socks, Tax Liability, Textiles, Toe, Top_Line
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Five Marketing Blunders you must avoid!
Marketing is the one of the most treachorous business disciplines I know. Most businessmen and entrepreneurs make fatal mistakes while approaching marketing – like believing that ‘advertising is marketing’. Most people forget about PR, Hijack and Piggyback marketing and also ignore building their own personal marketing story.. Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Advertising, Contests2win.com, Discovery Kids, facebook, Foursquare, Hijack Marketing, Indya.com, Infosys, Journalists, Kit Kat, Linkedin, Marketing, Mochi Media, Moshi Monsters, MTV, Narayan Murthy, Naukri.com, Nestle, Piggyback marketing, PR, Richard Branson, Rupert Murdoch, Times of India, Twitter, Venture Capital, 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
Have you found your Queen of Hearts?
..For almost 3 decades, there had been no exports since pricing just was not viable. In about 2 months after I joined, Manmohan Singh presented his dramatic ‘liberalization’ budget and massively devalued the Rupee! All of a sudden, Indian exports became a possibility and over the next few years, our family business grew into a very profitable, highly export centric business (that was also tax free)!…
….He said ‘ Alok, Intel wants to be the first advertiser on Contests2win.com because Intel believed that encouraging new web ideas was critical to growing Internet and computing penetration and this was a gesture in that direction’. He just said, ‘Add an Intel banner on the home page and bill us Rs. 5000 per month. No metrics, no questions, no click thrus and no reports required’. I was speechless….
…I was ignorant, he was a chance taker – that one game he sent to AG created such a massive rush of American traffic to our site, that in 6 months we had changed our business model completely to a Made in India, Sold in the USA story….
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Posted in Experiences, Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech
Tagged Addictinggames.com, advertisers, Ajay Mathur, Ajit Balakrishnan, Bombay Taxi, Citibank, Contests2win.com, Devaluation, Dinesh Gopalakrishnan, eVentures, Games2win, GK, Hearts, ICICI, Intel, Luck, Manmohan Singh, Neeraj Bhargava, Oberoi Mumbai, Queen, Rajesh Jog, Rediff.com, Rupee, Samarkand, socks, Viacom
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