I have been managing companies since I embarked on the path of entrepreneurship 13 years ago in 1992 after I returned from the US. For the most part, these have been small companies. IndiaWorld was all of 20 people. Netcore has only now grown to about 60+. These are still small numbers. Even though I … Continue reading TECH TALK: Vision and Worries: An Evening with CEOs
Over the past 18 or so months, I have been working to bring the “Emergic Ecosystem” to life. I see this future as built around thin access devices [“teleputers” or mobile network computers the intersection of network computers and mobile phones] connected to centralised services over broadband wired and wireless networks. This two-way, multimedia web … Continue reading TECH TALK: Vision and Worries: Emergic Ecosystem
Much of my writing and thinking is influenced by another dimension: the feedback mechanism caused by business actions. What I am writing about here is exactly what I seek to implement in my entrepreneurial venture, Netcore Solutions. This thread connects the vision and ideas to the marketplace, putting in place a self-correcting mechanism. It is … Continue reading TECH TALK: My Mental Model: Open-Source Ideas
With the vision in place, the challenge before me is to now build the various teams that will need to build and assemble the various jigsaw pieces together. My personal management experience in this area has been quite limited. In IndiaWorld, I had about 20 people to manage and two parts to the business that … Continue reading TECH TALK: An Entrepreneur’s Growth Challenge: People
How did you get into the business that you’re in? First explain what your business is. I will answer this in two parts. The first part will deal with IndiaWorld, and the second with Netcore. IndiaWorld emerged out of my earlier failures. Because none of my previous business ideas worked, I had to look for … Continue reading TECH TALK: My Life as an Entrepreneur: Part 2
How did you learn how to set up a business? Are you self-educated? Did you have any formal schooling or a really good mentor? I learnt business from two sources: my father and my failures. My father has been an entrepreneur since the early 1970s. Unlike me, he has done a wide variety of things … Continue reading TECH TALK: My Life as an Entrepreneur: Part 3
What is the hardest part about running a small business? I think the hardest part about running a small business is the need for constant watchfulness and alertness. In a small business, even a small mistake can prove fatal. So, even as when has to consider many aspects of the situation when making a decision, … Continue reading TECH TALK: My Life as an Entrepreneur: Part 4
I got an email recently from Sean Fioritto asking me if Id like to answer some questions as part of his series on entrepreneurship. I agreed. This was the outcome. Sean is an undergraduate at the University of Arizona and is majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Chinese. First, please tell us a little … Continue reading TECH TALK: My Life as an Entrepreneur: Part 1
Netcore is creating a utility computing platform to enable affordable and manageable computing, as part of our vision for tomorrow’s world. We believe that this platform will be the way computing will be made available to the next billion users. We are growing our Emergic Grid development team which is building this centralised computing platform. … Continue reading Emergic Grid Team
The Economic Times had an article yesterday which had a few quotes from me: If you were an SME, you almost certainly managed all your business processes manually, the way it has been done very smoothly thank you very much for almost a century. But now, it is almost safe to say that IT is … Continue reading SMEs and IT
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