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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Have been meaning to do a detailed write-up for quite some time. I finally got some time recently, and put this longish note together. It consolidates a lot of my thinking in recent months. (It needs to be linked with some of my earlier posts to add depth – will get around to doing that … Continue reading Emergic: The Vision
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