January 2011
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Facebook and Twitter are modern-day smoking breaks. Jason Fried on why work doesn’t happen at work (TEDx Midwest)
Jan 28th
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Jan 28th
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We didn't know this →
It’s an excuse popular among errant school- children and visitors who litter Singapore’s roads. And it was pulled out by the government to explain why it appointed a central vigilance commissioner who has a corruption case against him. Quick Edit in today’s Mint. Awesome.
Jan 27th
Jan 27th
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Jan 24th
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The rise of meta-startups
Meta-startup (my own fabrication) is a startup about startups. It could be offering startup specific products and services, or simply making a lot of noise about “promoting startups”. I admire the first kind. It cannot be easy to pitch a product or a service to a startup, that is bound to be stingy and where the culture is to do everything in-house. Too bad this post isn’t...
Jan 21st
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Jan 18th
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Seth Godin on standing out - a TED video. The bottom line is: when consumers are spoilt for choice, you need to be remarkable, or get ignored.
Jan 14th
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Choosing co-founders
I saw a few posts flying around for entrepreneurs looking for co-founders, and a lot of my startup pals have asked me to hook them up with potential suitors (its like I’m that aunt who finds matches for weddings). Here’s a piece of advice. If you’re picking a co-founder, or joining someone as one, the single most important question is: Can you tell him/her openly that he/she...
Jan 13th
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Native versus HTML5 apps for mobiles
Ok, I hope that title is SEO friendly! I attended the local Mobile Monday conference this Saturday (don’t ask), and the last talk was a 20 minute rant on why there’s no business case for native apps, and HTML5 apps should be the norm. The speaker showed us a slide with Facebook (mobile) web and native iPhone apps showing the same stuff (a profile with status updates), in the same...
Jan 9th
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“Talk less, ship more.”
– Note to self. And to wanna-preneurs (wannabe entrepreneurs).
Jan 8th
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Civic hackers and activism
There was an excellent article on “Civic Hackers” in Mint today, which has triggered this post. Imagine a web platform where you can get information on every single Rupee of public money being spent by our governments (local, state or national). This platform would contain some of this data: Spend category (e.g., infrastructure) Spent on (or item) (e.g., road repair) Starting and...
Jan 4th
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