Death Of A Salesman by Rohinton Aga

This article was brought to my attention by Sridhar Rajagopalan, former CEO and founder of Educational Initiative at one of the board meetings around the 2013 - 2014 time frame. He shared a photocopy of the article, from which I could not figure out the publication that had published it nor the date of the…

Principle / Advice you remember from childhood

A tweet (a question) from Hunter Walk @hunterwalk got some great responses.  I  felt the need for the answers/ responses to be captured for better readability. Some responses to above Most people spend their lives trying to find and collect golden eggs. Few people learn how to be the goose that lays the golden egg.…

2 Must watch interviews with Barry Diller

I am starting to admire Barry Diller, who started building out IAC (InterActiveCorp) at the age of 49. Difficult to find a person who understands media and the internet better than Barry. Barry Diller joins Influencers with Andy Serwer The David Rubenstein Show: Barry Diller He believes one needs to forget success, be curious, demonstrate…

Martin Luther King Day Quotes 15-1-2018 via Social Media

Posting in one place, MLK quotes that were shared via facebook, twitter, etc. on Martin Luther King Day 2018 “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” "A social movement that only moves people is only a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution" "Our lives begin to end the day…

Companies to Watch 12-01-2018

Few companies getting some good traction. Daily Ninja: They are digitizing the last mile in daily morning milk delivery. In addition to milk, they also deliver fresh bread, eggs, fresh chapatis, vegetables etc.  For now available in select apartments across Bangalore. Portfolio company Towness manages the non-milk backend for Daily Ninja. GenWise Talent Development: This is India's…

Things I have learned from Paul Graham

(via 25 iq) some interesting things the author observed and leaned from Paul Graham, founder of Y-combinatorsome I like wereFor [a product or service] to surprise me, it must be satisfying expectations I didn’t know I had. No focus group is going to discover those. Only a great designer can.The exciting thing about market economies…

4 Travel Articles of Note

Travel works on Exposure, integral part of my 3E equation. Whenever I evaluate a person i don't know or a resume, I apply the 3E formula, Education, Experience and Exposure. Like my good friend Kiran aptly pointed out, one needs at least 2 Es to make any conversation interesting. The articles areWhy we Travel by…

2 very interesting notes

Some points from a Twitter Conversation with Rishi Jaitly

Rishi Jaitly, India Market Director Twitter, talks to The Idea Exchange (via Indian Express)  read full interview   >>>> He makes some good points that are worth noting, Twitter was invented as an SMS status update service in California around 8 years ago. We think of twitter as -- this idea of a town square,…

Peter Drucker on Marketing

(via forbes)Long ago Peter Drucker, the father of business consulting, made a very profound observation that has been lost in the sands of time:“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two–and only two–basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing…