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A chance meeting with Ishaat Hussain

When I read about the appointment of Ishaat Hussain as the Chairman of TCS, I smiled and remembered my chance meeting with him and what I learned about him that day: Sometime in the year 2000, after t...

How I Backpacked my way to being an Entrepreneur

Here the story of how it all started (please excuse my writing skills) :  March 2007 : A spoilt brat forced to do a Btec in Computing and business applications,chilling by the Ganga Riverside in Rishi...

My take on why Hillary lost and Trump won

Though, Hillary had a resume of a perfect candidate with perfect experience, perfect background and perfect timing of the 21st century with the highest number of modern feminists ever in the history, ...

tl;dr-societal trend or business model?

Wikipedia defines tl;dr as “Too long; didn’t read (abbreviated tl;dr and tldr;) is a shorthand notation added by an editor indicating a passage appeared to be too long to invest the time t...

How Chatbots will disrupt governance and elections

When people ask me why they should use a bot, my answer is simple. Bots are engaging. Land on a webpage and you need to go through the effort of reading the content and figuring out exactly what is be...

Why not a Black Money Venture Fund, Mr. Prime Minister?

The inspiration for this are the events of last night as catalysed by NAMO (Indian Prime Minister – Narendra Modi). Never in my lifetime have I seen such a major transformative move happen in a ...

‘Branding Basics for Startups’ at Startup Saturday

The theme of Startup Saturday November is ‘Branding Basics for Startups’.    Startup Saturday Mumbai – 12th November, 2016 – Theme: Branding Basics for Startups Hurry!! You can...

HOW AVOIDING PR IS HELPING OUR STARTUP

I have been running a film marketing agency for almost a year and a half now. We primarily do in-film branding and all sorts of alliances between brands and films. Within one year of establishment, to...

Is UpWork’s new pricing helping business and freelancers get value back for the extra money they are paying?

Recently, UpWork changed it’s pricing from 8.75% to 22.75%, it sparked an outcry. I personally started a survey that got a lot of attention from Forbes / PoliticalAmerican and other big names. B...

Help Needed – for Beverages Kiosk

Hello fellow Rodinhooders, There has been this idea which has been in the incubation since long but now its about to take shape. It is going to be kiosk based distribution model for the beverages. And...