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
The second failure that I had discussed last week was the one that I am presently going through. I thought quite a bit before writing about it. It is never easy to discuss unpleasant realities in public! As Sachin put it: After reading this article from you, what came to my mind was that it … Continue reading TECH TALK: When Things Go Wrong: The Present Situation
The Mint writes, as part of a story on mobiles and religion: “Customers such as Christopher say their text messages are less about religion than about sharing a beautiful idea with friends. He signed up for the service through the website http://www.mytodaysms.com. The firm charges Rs2 to start and stop services and the SMS itself … Continue reading Mint on our SMS Services
Netcore is the company I spend most of my time at. As a company, Netcore has been around for 10 years. We have two verticals in Netcore – a Managed Services business for enterprises primarily focused around mailing and security services (under the Emergic brand), and a Mobile VAS (Value-Added Services) business focused on direct-to-consumer … Continue reading What Netcore does
As I was preparing for the “My Story” talk as part of the IIT-B Alumni Association’s “Kal, Aaj aur Kal” event in Bangalore on Saturday, a lot of memories came back about my four years from IIT (1984-88). While I could not describe many of these since the talk became a panel conversation, I thought … Continue reading IIT Memories (Part 1/5): Two Decades On
At the end of every quarter, in NetCore, we do a formal review (sort-of Board meeting) with two external people. This helps us in multiple ways: it instills a “numbers” discipline down the line, it makes all of us accountable to numbers that we commit, it forces us to review ourselves every three months with … Continue reading Quarterly Targets and Reviews
In November, it will be 10 years since I sold my Internet portals business to Sify. It has been a long journey. Even as I have spent a significant time in NetCore, I have made about 15 investments in early-stage companies as part of what I call the Emergic Ecosystem. One of the disappointments at … Continue reading NetCore: Reflections
I have been running NetCore Solutions for more than a decade. For the period from 2000 to early 2005, it was a place where I could experiment with new ideas (Thin Client-Thick Server as a software solution, Visual Biz-ic as building blocks for enterprise software, Pragatee as an all-in-one business server for small businesses, Digital … Continue reading NetCore: A Brief History
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