Tag Archives: Entreprenuership

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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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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So you think you can ‘Start-Up’? Take my FURNACE test first…

Posted on June 2, 2010 by rodinhood

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 I am now inspired to write … Continue reading →

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Why Piracy is Good

Posted on November 4, 2009 by rodinhood

The record industry treated Napster like the Taliban of Piracy – they sued, fought and closed it down.

But wasn’t Napster actually ‘iTunes’ way before iTunes really came on the scene? Continue reading →

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VCs should learn Bonsai…

Posted on October 16, 2009 by rodinhood

In most VC funded companies, there is a sudden expectation from VCs to explode value creation just after the funding. To me, that is quite unrealistic. Continue reading →

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5 Questions for Mr. Shubhiksha

Posted on February 21, 2009 by rodinhood

I am really pi**** at the way Mr. Subramanian is conducting himself. I seriously believe that his actions and representations to the media jeopardize the fragile  VC-Start Up’s ecosystem that is being built in India. Unless some serious corporate governance action is … Continue reading →

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