There have been a lot of layoffs at Google and cost cutting measures . The company was always over dependent on a single product and their customers often paid too much for clicks and non converting customers. I would not be surprised if max CPC fell to less than $1 across all sectors. Wonder why [...]
Asian century and Asian Google
The writer correctly points out that until you rule the mind, you will never dominate the world, whatever your financial status. And unfortunately, the mainstream media in India today mainly promotes copycats and mediocrity. Venture capital funding (from mainly US firms) = Success . This attitude makes it very difficult for [...]
Go Real or Go Home
Interesting presentation with numbers. I am very frugal and do not like to waste money, so at least the next one year should not be a problem . I only wish there was a reliable marketplace where Indian websites/online businesses on sale would be listed. Most venture capitalists will [...]
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover
One of the most frustrating things about having an online business in India, is that other Indian internet companies judge you by the number of staff , the kind of office you have or how slick your website is. They think that just because I do not have a [...]
Risks and internet start ups in India an American has commented
Popular rock bands in India play very little of their own music.
Playing your own music is hard - there’s a risk that people wont like it.
That is the problem in India, people don’t like to take risks.
When I was leaving my job many of my [...]
From Another internet bubble in India
am aware of few very well known startups that are shutting shop (will share as we get a green signal from founders/investors).
In India, most internet companies think that getting funding = success, but they do not realize that you lose independence and have [...]
Official version of a software engineers suicide
and the unofficial version (more believable) version in a forum posting
Most of the IT companies do not care for the individual , they expect employees to spend their whole life in office. In engineering companies, it is much better , almost everyone leaves office [...]
I do not have an IT or internet background and when I started dealing with internet companies I was shocked at their attitudes, especially the smaller companies.
If you have worked in a professionally managed company, you learn to put aside your personal likes and dislikes, treat everyone fairly based solely on business criteria and get [...]
Microsoft/FaceBook/Google from India? Can Indian Society produce Gates/Larry/Zuckerburg?
The problem is the attitude of people who start a tech business in India, most people however “educated” are not able to think independently, they just ape other products/websites.
If you are an engineer from a top college, and do not go abroad for further studies, do an [...]
Birds of a feather
When you are self employed, the way you look at things changes. I was formatting my accounts a few days ago and I realised it has been many many years since I last spent time formatting any document.
When I was working in a office, I would spend hours formatting, [...]