January 2011
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What goes into writing a book?
After I published the ‘How I managed running a startup and writing a book’ blog 10 days ago, a couple of people asked me what exactly goes into writing a book. Yesterday, being a holiday (Republic Day in India) I thought of penning down my thoughts early in the morning. Hope you find it helpful if you are onto writing something… Theme You have to nail the theme and scope of...
Jan 27th
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How I managed running a startup and writing a book
A chance meeting at the Cricket Club of India (popularly known as the CCI club) bar in late 2008 led to this nascent idea turning into something concrete… This is where I first met my publishers - Tata McGraw-Hill. We started a conversation dating back to my move from the U.S. back to India in 2005, starting DeskAway in late 2007 and being extremely passionate and optimistic about...
Jan 13th
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A Bubble? You can get funded or bought out too....
Daily, I am reminded of the early 2000 and I am pretty sure there is a bubble brewing (or even about to burst) in web-o-app-land. There is an app for everything just like when we had websites for animals and pets. I think this time with the ‘social networks’ it seems a bit more narcissistic. Check this out… Viral app threewords.me that lets you solicit three-word responses...
Jan 5th
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