One of my greatest teachers ever, Steve Blank, started writing his blog recently. He is the master of understanding the intricacies of the startups. He has a knack of telling these complex ideas in a very simple and fun language. His core idea is that there are patterns in successful startups. He calls his [...]
Archive for the ‘Professional’ Category
Four Steps to Epiphany
Posted in Coaching, Entrepreneurship, Professional, Venture Capital on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Elegant organization
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Perspective, Professional, Psychology on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I loved this short story about Mark Zuckerberg and how to “start” communities. [Taken from "What would Google do?"]
The scene was the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum International Media Council in Davos, Switzerland, as the head of a powerful news organization begged young Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, for his secret. Please, the [...]
Interview with Bill George (Author of “True North”)
Posted in Balance, Book, Coaching, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Interview, Leadership, Life, Professional, Spiritual, Venture Capital on June 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I interviewed Bill George, author of best-seller books “Authentic Leadership” and “True North”. Bill is not just a great author and a leader himself, he is a wonderful coach and a teacher too. Here are the excerpts of this brief interview -
Hitesh: What is “True North” and how does it apply in the context of a business student or [...]
The MONK and the MONKey
Posted in Balance, Book, Bottom of Pyramid, Coaching, Creativity, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, HoMe, Leadership, Life, Personal, Professional, Psychology, Review, Spiritual, Venture Capital on June 6, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I read Randy Komisar’s “The Monk and the Riddle“. I just could not stop when I started reading it. By the time I finished reading it, the clock struck 4 AM. I think it was a night well spent.
Randy Komisar is a Venture Capitalist with Kleiner Perkins. This book tells Randy’s evolution (thus the word [...]
Gates and Jobs: Great Show
Posted in Balance, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Life, Personal, Professional, Psychology, Spiritual on June 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gates and Jobs shared a stage and it was quite a show (better than a Bollywood thriller).
One thing that is quickly evident from this – Jobs comes across as a person who still has a lot to prove while Gates looks deeply satisfied like a Sadhu. While Gates looks like entering Sanyas , Jobs is [...]
Khosla’s Pursuit of HappYness
Posted in Balance, Bottom of Pyramid, Coaching, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Life, Personal, Professional, RandomThoughts, Venture Capital on May 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I met and listened to Vinod Khosla, a renowned Venture Capitalist, at a US-India Venture Capital Association meeting. His speech gave a glimpse inside his mind. It was a very personal speech unlike his previous speeches. Khosla talked about some of the decisions he made in life and why he made those decisions.
Move to India [...]
My First Business
Posted in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Life, Personal, Professional on May 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I started my first business at the age of 9 (1984). It was a comic books rental service. I did that during my summer vacations. My first partner was my childhood friend Amit. I got all his comics, combined them with my collection and we had our starting inventory of books. We had books including [...]
How green is my purchase?
Posted in Balance, Bottom of Pyramid, Decision Making, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Leadership, Life, Personal, Professional, RandomThoughts, Spiritual on March 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When we ask this question about “How green is this purchase of mine?” – Remember this -
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
First mover disadvantage …
Posted in Professional on December 7, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Why Yahoo could not use the first-mover advantage in number of areas with Web 1.0?
Rich Skrenta, CEO of Topix.net, puts it this way:
The second mouse gets the cheese while the first mouse gets trampled on.
Thoughts … by Napolean Hill
Posted in Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Personal, Professional on December 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to know what he wanted, and the determination to stand by that desire until he realized it.
Seek expert cousel before giving up. “Three feet from Gold” story.
The greatest success comes just one step beyond the point [...]
An ideal life – devoid of contradictions
Posted in Creativity, Personal, Professional, Spiritual on November 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Consider this -You wake up in the morning suffused with an ineffable feeling of joy, a deep sense of well being. You go to work, to a job you love so much that you would pay for the privilege of doing it. You labor intently but are so focused that time flies by unnoticed. At [...]
Wow! An exclusive hour with three CIOs
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Professional on November 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
I went to the “CIO Meet” at Haas tonight. I got the privilege to ask them some questions.
The three CIOs were -
Marty Chuck, CIO, ElectronicArts
Greg Higham, VP, Information Systems &Technology, Witness Systems
Chris Jones, CTO, Shaklee Corporation
What an opportunity! Along with the free EA game and T-shirts I got answers to some of my questions I [...]
Ben Bernanke’s Speech about Global Integration
Posted in Bottom of Pyramid, Entrepreneurship, Professional on November 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some excerpts …
By almost any economically relevant metric, distances have shrunk considerably in recent decades. As a consequence, economically speaking, Wausau and Wuhan are today closer and more interdependent than ever before. Economic and technological changes are likely to shrink effective distances still further in coming years, creating the potential for continued [...]
CEO’s Advice
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Professional on November 3, 2006 | 1 Comment »
“It’s better to be poor and running your own business than to be rich and work for someone else.”– Calvin Ayre, CEO of Bodog.com
“Perseverance. Stick with it and keep a positive attitude. Starting a company is definitely a challenging process, and you have to be able to believe in yourself and believe in the concept, [...]
Why the VC model works in the Silicon Valley chaos
Posted in Entrepreneurship, Professional on October 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
From NetService Ventures -
Venture backed companies live to push discontinuous change into the world. This is “10X” stuff, and is how their backers make a living. Large firms face serious threats from discontinuous change. It is hard to see coming.
The culture of the large firm is optimized around managing continuous change, but can’t manage discontinuous [...]
Presentation Zen – Simplicity and Complexity
Posted in Balance, Entrepreneurship, Happiness, Professional on October 7, 2006 | 1 Comment »
How to make a presentation simple yet powerful in message?
