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What it means to complete 11 years in the open source business

What if you are not a unicorn? What if you don’t have the backing of big time VCs as your investors? Can you still make an impact? Before I start talking about the impact that we have been making, let me talk about our journey. Year 2009 was certainly not a great year for businessesContinue reading “What it means to complete 11 years in the open source business”

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Paradox of COVID-19 or resilience of economy or shift in the economic landscape?

Time and again we have experienced that when any calamity strikes it brings enormous destruction. There is no exception to it – the calamity could be at personal level, family, city, state or at country level. COVID-19 pandemic has brought the entire world to a gridding halt. The globalized nature of our societies has madeContinue reading “Paradox of COVID-19 or resilience of economy or shift in the economic landscape?”

Reliance – Facebook deal : Not in the interest of entrepreneurs and innovators

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/facebook-buys-9-99-stake-in-reliance-jio-for-5-7-billion/articleshow/75283735.cms I have been thinking about this deal. I feel this deal is a real waste of great opportunity. You would ask what is that opportunity? This deal is more about just an opportunistic business transaction and not about innovation nor about entrepreneurship. Reliance needed the money urgently. It has huge debt of around $43Billion.Continue reading “Reliance – Facebook deal : Not in the interest of entrepreneurs and innovators”

COVID-19: An opportunity to ACT

The way to address challenges created by COVD-19 is to ACT. I’ll explain what is ACT (I don’t mean just an act). Let us first see the challenges it has created : Fear This pandemic has created too much fear – fear of its spread, fear about its deadly nature and most importantly fear that thereContinue reading “COVID-19: An opportunity to ACT”