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So, what are you looking at?
….If a simple, elegant, easy to read and easy to display number that’s most important to your business can be quickly established and then communicated to everyone, it helps a lots of things to fall in place…..So, it’s important to decide what metrics you adopt so as to measure your success internally and externally…..
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Tagged Alok Kejriwal, Alok Kejriwals blog, cpm, facebook, Foursquare, Games2win, GRP's, Linkedin, Maruti, MMORPG, Porsche, Rodinhood.com, RPM, SEGA, Speedometer, start up, Sumant Mandal, Tachometer, Television Media, TRP's, Video Advertising, zynga
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Have you partnered with thieves and robbers?
Look at the love triangle – Pirates love our content and steal our games. We love ads and place ‘invisible to visible’ ads in our games. Consumers love games and they play them on all kinds of websites all over the world!!
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The Al Dente Moment – What Pasta can teach Entrepreneurs!
If there was ever a perfect ‘Al Dente’ moment, it was when Steve Case sold AOL to Time Warner. A small fledgling company positioned itself so cleverly to an old media behemoth and the values that it extracted are now historical and soul shattering. Unfortunately, in the case of Time Warner, what they thought was ‘Al Dente’ Internet Pasta turned out to be Al Dente Rotting Garbage. Continue reading
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Tagged Al dente, AOL, China, Clearstone Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs, Games2win, Hotmail, Indian Idol, Mahesh Khambadkone, Microsoft, MMOG, Mobile2win, Pasta, PRC, Sabeer Bhatia, SMS, Steve Case, Time Warner, VAS, VCs, yahoo
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The Entrepreneur’s Speech
People with speech impediments and Start up Entrepreneurs have lots in common. There stand out in the crowd, work relentlessly to solve their problem, turn to guides and friends for help. And when they succeed, the God’s among other people stand up and give them a standing ovation…. Continue reading
Can I have an Exit please?
Abhimanyu ( A warrior in Indian folklore) heard his father telling his mother about a deadly maze like military technique while he was an unborn baby in his mothers womb. He subconsciously lern how to enter that formation but not how to exit it since his mother fell asleep. He died as a consequence. I believe that start up Entrepreneurs are modern days Abhimanyu’s with our own exit problems… Continue reading
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Tagged Abhimanyu, About.me, Admob, AOL, Arjun, Cleartrip.com, Entrepreneurs, Exit, Games2win, google, Huffingtonpost.com, Internet, Jambool, Komli, Liquidity, Mahabharata war, Makemytrip.com, Nasdaq, Netmagic, Platforms, Playfish, Products, Services, Sharad Sanghi, start up, Yatra.com, Youtube, Zapak.com
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VC = Venture, Vapor, Vulture & Vampire Capital
VC comprises Venture, Vapor, Vulture and Vampire Capital. Its a combination of wisdom, diligence and fate that makes an Entrepreneur taste her flavor of VC and overcome whatever comes her way. In the end, after managing these VC’s, the entrepreneur will have nothing left to fear. Continue reading
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Tagged BenQ, Bill Elkus, China, Clearstone, Contests2win, eVentures, Frangipani, Games2win, ICICI Venture, India, Jim Armstrong, Mobile2win, Oberoi Mumbai, Rahul Khanna, Santa Monica, Siemens, Siemens Mobile Acceleration Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Softbank, Sumant Mandal, Vapor, VC, Venture Capital, Vulture Capitals, Walt Disney
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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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