Archive for the 'Analysis' Category

Lectures on Leadership-1

Monday, October 27th, 2008

These are lectures and interactions from last year.
The first of the set was on 12th January, 2007 at Netaji Auditorium by Mr. Vinod Dham, who is well known as “The Father of Pentium”. Mr. Dham gave a brief account of the turning points of his life before the lecture was made open for questions. A [...]

How free software makes money

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Ever wondered why a perfectly respectable system like Ubuntu Linux ships completely free of cost all the way from Africa? While many people focus on this point, it is actually just a consequence of something else- Ubuntu is only incidentally free of cost. Good people donate to it and sponsor its shipping costs because they [...]

Making Sense of the Financial Crisis

Monday, October 20th, 2008

How does a 158 year old company, the 5th biggest investment bank in the world go bankrupt overnight? Why the TV channels have lost their obsession with Sarah Palin and are hanging on to every word uttered by Hank Paulson, US Treasury Secretary.
Though popular articles may have you believe that Lehman Brothers went bankrupt overnight, [...]

Innovation speed in startups

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Research-based start-ups are new business start-ups that develop and market new products based on proprietary knowledge or skill. Such startups form the basis of technopreneurship, which has received a great deal of attention from academics in the last couple of years. Although considerable research has been done in the field of resources, strategy and industry [...]

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