God in Chief

NASSCOM the premier software body of India is once again organizing the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2010. Overall a great conference, mostly attended by senior level executives of most top software companies of India, global Industry...

India has witnessed a tremendous growth in its media and entertainment business. In the past decade, we have seen the growth of billion dollar home grown media conglomerates like Network 18, Zee, UTV, Reliance ADA, Yash Raj, NDTV, Bennet & Colmen,...

Mumbai Terror Attacks on 26/11 has impacted thousands of people directly, millions of people across the globe who saw the event unfold on television, internet, twitter & facebook were also deeply impacted. For the next couple of months there were...

For the past 10 years i have attended over 100 conferences in India and abroad. In most cases while others paid hundreds of dollars to attend. I used Juggad and almost always got in for free mostly being a speaker. The format for attending such...

I made the 3000 mile journey to TED from LA with not much expectations. Having attended a number of events and shows in India, I was expecting this event to be much like others, long lines, few good speakers who would mostly fly in for a few hours to...

Last week I was at an interesting round-table organized by Welingkar’s Education on “Seeding Entrepreneurial Startups & Social Businesses in B School Campuses”. They had put together an interesting group together there were VCs, University ...

In these days of marketing clutter its raining laptops literally. Limca a popular soft drink from the Coca Cola company if offering you free Laptops. Shahrukh Khan is trying to sell you Laptops, Hritik Roshan is dancing to Laptops, Saif Ali Khan is...

It was a cold winter day in Munich in Feb 2008 where I was attending the DLD Conference and bumped into the founder and Editor of TechCrunch Michael Arrington. Michael and I had some interesting discussions and finally spoke about the startup scene in..

As the dates for India's top startup showcase event proto.in is nearing I can see a lot of buzz and activity around the event on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. Boot camps are happening and 15 startups are busy preparing their...

Having spent a lot of my time with startups their entrepreneurs, the teams, the investors both in India and Silicon Valley. I thought to put together a comprehensive list of the key differences I noticed between the culture of these startups. For...