Category Archives: Indian internet

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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Tech/IT in India

October 26, 2008 – 11:33 am

A post on investing in India . What is interesting is most of the startups have founders with a  software background or  are NRIs. The problem with working in a software company, however big or famous it is, is that you never see the full picture.  You are only handle the software coding part , [...]

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Indian internet startups

August 31, 2008 – 12:41 am

There is a lot of hype in the online and offline media about internet start ups in India.  I have an internet business  but I do not have a background in programming or the internet, so my way of  looking at things is different. When I started my business, I did not know any one [...]

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