ISB Hyderabad is organizing an Entrepreneurship workshop and as you know, ISB gets the best brains in the world, so I thought it would be good option for people wanting to startup or already started up. The actual mail is given below and I am also marking Sukhmeet in the mail who is co-ordinating the event. Also as you might remember, ISB had graciously helped in the venue for SW HYD last time.   Dear All, Greeting from Indian School Of Business!! The Wadhwani Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (WCED) is conducting a workshop at ISB on March 17th 2012 The workshop is intended for...

Do you have some idea about a mobile phone application? Or pershaps something in the cloud computing space. Then perhaps you should consider taking part in this competition. Who Can participate? Startups that are using MS Technologies for mobile or for cloud computing. So in  case of mobile, you should be developing shit on Windows Mobile. For details, click here.      

A new social networking site (and I am using the term just because there is no other category in which this site will fit), called “Path.com” has been launched which aims to fill a need where only a small group of people very close to each other can share their life. To cut a long story short, it is a Facebook with upper friend limit of 50! I tried to check out the site myself and it seems I probably checked it out too early as it is probably not launched yet although that should not be the case since you can register. See my screencast below. Basically there was nothing to do, once I...

Facebook just announced their new “modern messaging system” which they don’t want to call email although in effect, that is what it is,  as now you can have your own @facebook.com email address (and the official facebook staff will now have @fb.com email address). So what exactly are its features? You can control who can send you messages using your privacy settings. Seamless integration between chat, mail, and sms. This means all your conversations which are fragmented between different channels, are saved in your inbox as a conversation (kinda like gmail conversation although that...

When entrepreneurs are looking for inspiration and motivation, they read books about super successful people who’ve been there, done that. While that is of course, one of the great motivating factors, sometimes, inspiration can be found much closer to your home if only you’ll care to look. . I just returned from a great talk by one of my alumnus, Dr Gaurav Gandhi who has recently started up his venture mLabs, a company which aims to conduct research in cutting-edge circuit design for new technologies and substrates in nano electronics. (Yeah even I don’t know what that means but...