Background: Ian Ybarra from Ferrazzi Greenlight asked me a few days ago to send some gift ideas for connectors for an article that he was working with. Being a writer, I couldn’t write a paragraph 🙁 but I wrote an article instead. Here is the complete article. The key parts of this have been incorporated… Continue reading
Date Archives → December 2006
Creating artificial exclusivity and artificial scarcity – ThousandLotsOfSand.com
Dimitrios (who has cool artwork on his site BTW) sends me a link to his new project. ThousandLotsofSand.com Here is the offer on his website The idea is pretty simple. You can buy a lot of land, why not a lot of sand? This Caribbean beach is divided in 1000 lots of approximately 0.945 square… Continue reading
The big dilemma: Pareto Principle and Social Bookmarking
Disclaimer: If you think I am totally nuts with this article, I don’t blame you. Sometimes I get the same feeling too 🙂 All of us know about the Pareto Principle which states that for many phenomena, 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes. I am reading Citizen Marketers by Ben McConnell… Continue reading
Eating our own dog food…
It has been one week since we rolled out iPolipo as a controlled beta. Today we reached our 95% of our beta customer goal. There are still a few more slots left to be filled. After which, we will get people to register and contact them as soon as we are ready for the next… Continue reading
Cody McKibben interviews me on entrepreneurship, student success and more..
I met Cody a couple of days ago and enjoyed the conversation very much. Cody was kind enough to interview me on variety of topics that include entrepreneurship in general, personal branding, student success etc. Here are some questions from the interview: 1. Are there any specific skill sets that don’t get taught in school… Continue reading
Quotes worth recording – Frederick Collins
The following quote shows (brilliantly) where you should put the focus on… “There are two types of people in the world. Those who come in the room and say, ‘Well, here I am!’ and those who come into the room and say ‘Ah,there you are!’” – Frederick Collins Writer Please sign up for my newsletter… Continue reading
Three questions from Business Networking Advice
I was recently interviewed by Josh Hinds of Business Networking Advice. Here are the three questions Josh asked me: 1. How do you define Business Networking and why do you feel it is important? 2. Can you share one or two ideas that someone could put into practice that would help them to improve their… Continue reading
Things that make me smile #27 – The perks (Mullah Nasruddin story)
Here is what I got out of this:You may want to get a lot but it has to make sense to the person who is giving it to you. If not, it won’t be long term.. — The perks Mullah Nasrudin was applying for a job. “Does the company pay for my hospitalization?” he asked…. Continue reading
Things that make me smile #26 – The trial
One of my friends sent this to me. I chuckled as it also teaches us a simple lesson – never underestimate anyone. — The Trial The defense attorney was trying to corner an old man who had witnessed an accident. His job was to discredit the witness.“How old are you Mr. Barnett?” asked the lawyer.“I… Continue reading
Status Check – Three types of growth by Peter Drucker
I received a lot of emails about my blog post “Why do I think many software engineers are on drugs?” The emails were mixed. Some that agreed with my viewpoint and some violently refused to even consider that there may be some truth in it. Here is some food for thought for software engineers and,… Continue reading