Monthly Archives: February 2009

Investment “experts”

February 25, 2009 – 3:24 am

Harvard’s declining endowment funds – shows that most investment bankers are grossly overpaid,  just because they handle the money, they get very high salaries and bonuses.  Few have the judgement or foresight to take the correct decisions.  A comment  is even more interesting (the best part of Rediff are the comments) The worst fall-out of [...]

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IT firms

February 16, 2009 – 4:35 am

IT firms and the Indian market -  I come from a non IT and internet background and have been very surprised how arrogant most IT and internet companies in India are. In engineering, even if you worked for the largest company in the industry and your customer was a very small company, you always tried [...]

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Productivity

February 9, 2009 – 12:46 am

In a few years, India will have the largest population in  the world, so most companies don’t pay much attention to productivity.  If you look at  the  revenues of  major Indian internet companies , the revenue per employee is not very high.  They seem to spend a lot of resources on marketing.  So focussing on [...]

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