Category Archives: Experiences

Interesting and real life experiences in my life

The Al Dente Moment – What Pasta can teach Entrepreneurs!

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Rodinhood

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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Are you happily married?

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Rodinhood

…..I do know for sure that getting the right co-founder(s) for your business can be as rewarding as the soul mate you may have found or may still be searching for……..Pain is what founders feel whereas discomfort is what employees feel..
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Which floor are you on?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Rodinhood

People operates from many floors. Some from the ground, others from the 5th, and some from the Penthouse. Their business state represents the floor they are on. Continue reading →

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Which Train are you Riding?

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Rodinhood

The train is my metaphor of travelling – not distances but careers and lives, and how the decisions that we make may turn into the best or worst journeys ever!…..You can choose to be a Subway rat or board the Inter-City, Long Haul and even Cross Country Train! Continue reading →

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Eleven Learnings I swear by!

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Rodinhood

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 →

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Madam, Are you Pregnant?

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Rodinhood

We had established a 30 odd headcount office in Shanghai in early 2001 and were steadily ramping up our operations as Mobile2win, China. Contests2win and Softbank were the original investors and we were operating under strict Mainland China’s government’s guidelines. … Continue reading →

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Sometimes you can judge a Country by its Airport…

Posted on March 20, 2011 by rodinhood

Airports and ports in general represent their countries. There is so much a traveler can infer by what she experiences in any of these places of travel Continue reading →

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