Last week, TRAI announced new rules for telemarketing in India in an effort to combat spam. I have written on this topic many times before, since NetCore is a key player in both the transactional and promotional SMS business (as part of our Digital, Real-Time Communications vertical). On the whole, the rules are a good … Continue reading New Telemarketing Rules – Part 1
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
Over the past two years or so, I have written about my ideas on affordable computing in emerging markets and creating solutions for the next users (or as Clay Christensen puts it, the non-consumers). Over the past few months, what has become clear to me is that many of the ideas did not go far … Continue reading Seeking Explorers, Inventors, Builders and Marketers
Ed Brill writes about Esther Dyson’s Release 1.0 issue on Meta-Mail (available for $80). From the report introduction: Indeed, data is relatively easy, and we have good tools for it: the calculator, the spreadsheet, and the giant financial number-crunching application. The spreadsheet gave users a tool not just to calculate, but to build complex models … Continue reading Meta-Mail
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
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