Kevin Kelly has a brilliant piece about how, in the times of easy duplication and reproduction, can we perform better than free. He comes up with eight generatives better than free that provide value because they cannot be copied, which can very well be the founding aspects of many well-to-do businesses today. Maintaining the generatives will sustain the value, I think it provides a lot of insight into how ideas can succeed. [Continue]
Bernard Lunn has a detailed article on the state of innovation in India. He notices that there has been progress in a lot of areas like reliable low cost telecommunications, but the killer app is still missing. There are many Indian entrepreneurs, but not many of them are in India. [Continue]
As a software developer who has worked in India, worked in the US and has returned back to India, I have had some unique experiences with the term outsourcing. Unfortunately most of them have led me to a stage where I have started disliking that term, not because of the term itself, but because of the way the software industry uses it. It implies opportunistic behavior, short term vision and disregard for merit. [Continue]
Matt Mullenweg says Wordpress is not overnight success. If overnight success means getting popular overnight, neither does it say anything about the effort behind it nor about how long the success will stay. As Matt says, Wordpress is a four year old mature project contributed to by many, which says a lot more. [Continue]
Surveys are one of the most effective ways of collecting data, that if analyzed, can provide information and knowledge. It can play an instrumental role for an entrepreneur. Of course, this is true only if the surveys are done right. [Continue]
If you, like me, have not been able to attend the Web 2.0 Expo 2007, you can rely on the digital coverage to get a piece of the action. As usual, I have relied more on blogs, they are the closest to asking someone personally about it. Here are some links: Functioning Form Read/Write Web Web 2.0 Expo 2007 at Wordpress.com Tweets Photos at Laughing Squid Photos at Flickr Videos at YouTube I have not read/seen everything yet, that will probably take some more days. [Continue]
Fraser Kelton writes about KUBA as a change management tool. Know - Understand - Believe - Act. It does click immediately, I think if everyone did follow this it would eliminate most of the problems. [Continue]
I found 100 ways towards a better entrepreneur through Robert May. I am still in the 50s, but I thought I should tip you, the entrepreneur, about it. It is a pretty extensive list, if not thorough. [Continue]
Especially if you want to be an entrepreneur. This is what Sramana Mitra advises. The paths are different. [Continue]
Larry Dignan tries to explain difference between invention and innovation. Larry brings up lot of good points, but the difference is not explicitly mentioned, which leaves me in a half-hungry state. A while back I had sent an email amongst my friends to put down my thoughts about it, but never really got much feedback. [Continue]