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The Personal Side of Ventures: The Exit 20 Aug 2013 | 02:50 pm
Santosh Dawara. This month two close friends were offered a liquidation event in their respective ventures. A liquidation event, for the uninitiated is when your stock paper in a company is converted...
Interested in Acquiring an Online Movie Tickets Technology? This will help. 14 Aug 2013 | 12:27 pm
Santosh Dawara. Movie tickets services for India have recently found renewed interest in papers and popular media. Entrepreneurs approach me expecting help with creating one. I think that’s great. Al...
A Pathway to Flourish 8 Aug 2013 | 03:47 pm
A man can do what he wants but he cannot want what he wants. - Arthur Schopenhauer. Graduate education in the United States can be a bit of a twist for anyone who comes in from the relatively steril...
Finding Keyword Patterns in the Long Tail of Search 21 Jun 2013 | 10:40 am
Growing an information system relies on the discovery of new keyword patterns in the long tail of search. Most traditional methods of keyword discovery focus on the ‘head’, or common high volume searc...
The Price of an Electronic Book 6 Jun 2013 | 09:22 am
The cost of delivering an electronic book to a device is significantly lower than that of a physical book. That’s clear. Then why is it that publishers insist on pricing eBooks the same as their physi...
Automagically Building User Profiles with Gravatar 4 Jun 2013 | 10:53 am
The Gravatar API offers a simple shortcut to automagically build user profiles, including the user’s mug shot. Construct the user’s email hash by md5′ing her email address, then request the user’s pub...
Conflict with Privacy is Unnecessary 4 Jun 2013 | 01:16 am
There’s plenty of headroom for social networks to grow without conflicting with the end-users need to privacy. If you think about first principles that underly how we interact in the real world, socia...
How Sticky Growth Models Work 17 May 2013 | 05:55 pm
What really matters is not the raw numbers or vanity metrics but the direction and degree of progress. – Eric Ries, ‘The Lean Startup’. Most online services can be cast as having a sticky engine of gr...
Don’t Miss the Trivial 1 Apr 2013 | 10:35 am
Imagine you’ve been given the objective of designing a spacecraft that will need to take passengers to other star systems starting out from our own. A challenge of this nature starts with how do you s...
A Wallet Plan for those taking on Risk and Wealth Creation 27 Feb 2013 | 07:02 pm
I can go without earnings until my venture makes it to revenue. Have you ever had this thought cross your mind? This morning I woke up to an unfortunate fever and an email from a colleague asking me a...
