I don’t get paid for working long hours. (I don’t even get a comforting “I appreciate how hard you worked” speech from a supervisor).
I don’t get paid for the million emails, thousand proposals, and hundred presentations I’ve produced.
I don’t get paid for saying no to short-term opportunities in the interest of focusing on the product.
I don’t get paid for the hours I spend building the company’s morale, the team morale, and later my own morale.
I don’t get paid unless a large portion of the market accepts my product.
Who am I?
An entrepreneur 
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Categories: Anjali · startup
Tagged: beliefs, Entrepreneurship, reflection
I happened to come across this relevant post on on the value of business ideas.
Quote for the day: The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20.
“Ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
Explanation:
AWFUL IDEA = -1
WEAK IDEA = 1
SO-SO IDEA = 5
GOOD IDEA = 10
GREAT IDEA = 15
BRILLIANT IDEA = 20
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Categories: Anjali · business · inspiration · management · quotes · startup
Tagged: business value creation, execution, founders, ideas, startup valuation
The exploding job market over the last 4 years has made many believe that the “resume-view” of their careers is the view that matters.
The resume-view has clear breaks with one paragraph dedicated to each employer and a defined period attached to each. The more employers on the resume, the longer it will be. The more skills on the resume, the longer the skills section will be. And, the greater the brand value of the employer, the better the resume.
Frankly, I’m not surprised why the resume dominates career thinking. (more…)
Categories: Anjali · business · startup
Tagged: career, resume, thinking
As we go about our daily lives we all come across stuff that others may find useful or interesting. This hyperlocal information may range from a small local activity to a great find on the TV or even a rare opinion on a current topic. The way I look at it, if you think you’re witnessing something that holds relevance beyond your family and friends, it’s hyperlocal!
For example, here’s a peek at my last three hyperlocal conversations.
As I am writing this post, Ishan Sharma takes the wicket of Matthew Hayden in India’s ongoing Adelaide test match against Australia. This event instantly became the subject of conversation. (Relevance: india wide)
After TATA’s Nano for the masses, there’s now a laptop for the masses - HCL’s MiLeap at a price of Rs. 13,990. I hear it’s available at the local Croma electronics store in Pune. Do you think it will gain traction? (Relevance: india wide and local)
The Save Pune Traffic Movement (yahoo group: sptm-sunrise) has started an experiment with the Kothrud Traffic Police. They need volunteers to hold a “follow all rules” sign at Athavale Chowk near Nal Stop from 8:30 am to 8:45 am, for a week or so. My mother reports that last weekend the SPTM volunteers along with the police caught close to 150 violators over 2 hours! (Relevance: traffic fearing residents of Pune)
Well, that’s from me on one Saturday morning.
If you’re stopping by this page, give us a peek at your last hyperlocal conversation.
Cheers to the era of an hyperlocal Web!
Categories: Anjali · India · News · Pune · blogging · trends · web
Tagged: cars, conversations, cricket, hyperlocal, laptops, local news, pune news, pune traffic, social organizations
Scrabulous.com , launched by brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla from Calcutta is set for a battle with the makers of Scrabble, Hasbro who are trying to shut it down.
The question in my mind is - why now? The website has been around since 2006. It was later followed by a Facebook application in early 2007. What changed things at Hasbro? Was the magic number 600,000 registered Scrabulous users or 2.3 million active users on Facebook? What was going on at Hasbro as they sat watching the growth of Scrabulous over the years? Here’s one possibility.
If I were an evil genius running a board games company whose product line spanned everything from Monopoly to Clue, I might do this: Wait until someone comes up with an excellent implementation of my games and does the hard work of coding and debugging the thing and signing up the masses. Then, once it got to scale, I’d sweep in and take it over. Let the best pirate site win! If I were compassionate, I’d even cut in the guys who did all the work for a percentage point or two to keep the site running.
Will someone please start a Facebook group to save Scrabulous?
Well said!
Either way, evil or compassionate, I would do everything in my power to make sure the Scrabble loving population of the world continues to grow. Why make it a case of board players vs. online players? If the next generation of Scrabble players is meant to be online, so be it. I would not waste my time fighting it, rather spend my time figuring out how to make it viable. Shutting down the online version will move the online audience elsewhere. After all, Scrabulous was created only because the free website Quadplex where the Agarwalla brothers played Scrabble started charging its users.
What game or version of the game will this move by Hasbro create? We’ll just have to wait, watch and later play
Categories: Anjali · News · business · facebook · scrabulous
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