Long time back I wrote a post on startups. Recently a couple of friends left the company to do their own thing again. So I thought this was a good time to look back and see how everyone's doing [This is incomplete, will update this as and when i get info].
New ones:
http://www.apunkadialogue.com - Amit was one of the most ambitious and talented fellows i have ever worked with. I could not make much out of the site, but what the heck, I don't understand any of the other Gen Y stuff either :)
http://www.s3edge.com - Started by a couple of my ex-colleagues Abhishek and Venkatesh. They were so thrilled by the by the product that we have built (Microsoft Biztalk RFID) that they left the company to build solutions on top of it :)!
Companies still running:
http://www.carwale.com - This is doing great and in fact BusinessWeek has recognized Arun as one of the top 25 entrepreneurs in the Asian continent (blog link) ! This is cool stuff !!
http://www.quillpad.com - Rampi and KS keep churning out something or the other and this turned out to be a huge hit for them. It is easily the best transliteration tool out there!
Companies no longer running:
Monday, February 11, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Trick question - 1
Your customer says that none of their log files show any errors, so it must be the frameworks problem. What should be the first thing to ask ?
Answer: Do they actually log their errors to the logfiles or does the code just swallow them? :). This might seem funny, but i learnt it the hard way!
Answer: Do they actually log their errors to the logfiles or does the code just swallow them? :). This might seem funny, but i learnt it the hard way!
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Seth books
Recently came across the seth books and felt intrigued by the way they have been written. After reading some excerpts on amazon, I ordered a couple of them: Seth Speaks and The Nature of Personal Reality
They are a fascinating read (still reading the second one) and they deal with nature of religion, beliefs, nature of the conscious mind and how personal beliefs (not just the religious ones) affect individual reality in a very deep way.
If you are not too religious, and are open to considering view points different from yours about life (and death), you owe it to yourself to read these books!
They are a fascinating read (still reading the second one) and they deal with nature of religion, beliefs, nature of the conscious mind and how personal beliefs (not just the religious ones) affect individual reality in a very deep way.
If you are not too religious, and are open to considering view points different from yours about life (and death), you owe it to yourself to read these books!
Monday, October 22, 2007
Something different...
A few years back, when i was fresh in the industry, I used to read up a fair amount on "Personal Productivity" and "Effectiveness". Some of the articles that were useful to me were written by a person named "Steve Pavlina" who used to run a games site.
I did a search for those articles again a few weeks back and I found that he has quit games and moved on to have his own personal development website http://www.stevepavlina.com. and http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/
Spent sometime reading it up and what I find different about this person is his hands on approach to everything that he tries. If something is not dangerous and worth knowing about then he tries it out on himself for a few months and writes about his conclusions (polyphasic sleep, living without a microwave, manifesting money through intention! ... ) .
He is pretty comfortable writing his point of view and experience about things that are usually considered bizzare (paranormal).
Definitely worth a read. Be prepared for something unconventional and ask yourself why you feel uncomfortable if you do !
I always remind myself that whats "rational" today was not rational a few centuries back and what will be "rational" a few decades from now may not be considered rational today.
I did a search for those articles again a few weeks back and I found that he has quit games and moved on to have his own personal development website http://www.stevepavlina.com. and http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/
Spent sometime reading it up and what I find different about this person is his hands on approach to everything that he tries. If something is not dangerous and worth knowing about then he tries it out on himself for a few months and writes about his conclusions (polyphasic sleep, living without a microwave, manifesting money through intention! ... ) .
He is pretty comfortable writing his point of view and experience about things that are usually considered bizzare (paranormal).
Definitely worth a read. Be prepared for something unconventional and ask yourself why you feel uncomfortable if you do !
I always remind myself that whats "rational" today was not rational a few centuries back and what will be "rational" a few decades from now may not be considered rational today.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
One laptop per child..
I was impressed by what these folks set out to do and wondered if they could pull it off. Creating such a cool laptop for less than $200 is something admirable. Looks like they are in mass production now.
This is a project worth reading about: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/
The ted video that talks about this:
This is a project worth reading about: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/
The ted video that talks about this:
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