The Trend John could not understand the reason for third failure in a row. He had a blockbuster success during the dot-com days so this was really puzzling. Finally, his mentor’s question solved the mystery for him – “John, what was the real reason for your success first time – You or the Trend?” ======… Continue reading
Date Archives → January 2008
Mini Saga #21 – The Price
If something is too good to be true, it normally is. Enjoy the story =========== The Price An experienced entrepreneur launched a company with a shoe-string budget. The company was very successful. The entrepreneur got on a speaking circuit explaining how easy it was to build a company. What was not mentioned was the PRICE… Continue reading
Dating Business: Pursuit of perfection in something that can never be perfect
Some background first: We will be working with a few dating companies as there is an OEM opportunity for one of my portfolio companies. So I started thinking about this business a bit. Fundamentally, the promise of a dating website is to find the “right” match for you. Let’s think about some other businesses who… Continue reading
Pick Me Up – 24 hour book project
Jourdon Soh from Pick Me Up sent a note about their project – creating a book in 24 hours flat. While I haven’t read the book to endorse it, I was fascinated by the project. 42 people getting together to create a book – from start to finish – in 24 hours. From what I… Continue reading
Mini Saga #20 – Happiness
Happiness It was a good year for John. His hard work had handsomely paid off albeit with sacrifices on the family side. When he told his friend Bob that he had many reasons to be happy about the year, Bob asked – “Why do you need a reason to be happy?” — Note1: A mini… Continue reading
If it's not helping, it may be hurting you…
Here is a partial list: If the books you are reading are not be helping you, they may be hurting you. If your philosophy towards life is not helping you, it may be hurting you. If your current thinking is not helping you, it may be hurting you. If the company you are employed with… Continue reading
Expanding Your Capacity in the New Year – Excerpts
This program was recorded in the KZSU (Stanford Radio) studios for “It’s Diff” program hosted by Sri Srinivasa. First, a video excerpt summarizing the discussion For those of you, who are interested in the full program, audio version (two parts) are updated on my Facebook page along with other audio and video segments.You can also… Continue reading
KZSU Radio – Jan 9, 2008 at 7.30 AM; Expanding your capacity in the new year
Sri who runs the “It’s Diff” show on KZSU Radio will be interviewing me on the show this Wednesday. Here are the details: Date: Jan 9, 2008 Time: 7.30am to 8.30am Station: 90.1FM URL: http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/ (Live Streaming on the Internet for listeners outside of the bay area) Topic: Expanding your capacity in the New Year… Continue reading
Boomer411 – Helping Baby Boomers find relevant content quickly
Those who know the history of Suggestica know that we started off as a recommendation service for books. Of course, over the last year, we transformed ourself to build private and public vertical discovery engines. We don’t build vertical search engines. Search focuses on “recovery” of information whereas we focus on “discovery” of information. Last… Continue reading
200 more invites for Dhingana
Disclaimer: I am involved in this company currently in the capacity of a mentor to the founders. Dhingana is the first ever hybrid website combining streaming music and social networking. Dhingana had reserved 200 invites for Life Beyond Code readers and they were all used up. Thank you for all the music fans who registered…. Continue reading