To celebrate its 15th birthday, LinkedIn encouraged people to share their reflections under #WhenIWas15. Reading those essays, I realised with a shock that I remember very little of when I was 15. Except that it was the year our family bought a colour television and I made acquaintance of Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. It […]
This article first appeared on FirstPost on January the 4th, 2018. Time’s up, reportedly, for a well-known high profile evangelist and investor in the Indian startups. A police case has been registered against his alleged sexual harassment of women, who had approached him for advice. This is providing a much-needed opportunity for reflection and corrective […]
When I take a painkiller, I trust that a reputed company’s product, bought at my local trusted pharmacy, will just make my pain go away, not kill me. My pharmacist in turn believes the company’s promise that it is shipping a painkiller – not cyanide – under its brand, and that the currency note I […]
An interesting thing about being plugged into the startup world is the frequency with which one sees “new ideas”. Many of them, alas, are just old ideas being rebranded or old ideas that the person proposing them is not aware of. Facebook’s widely documented travails, with legislators inquiring into Facebook’s role in the 2016 US […]
This article is the final one in the Startup Series on FirstPost’s Tech2 section and first appeared on September the 11th, 2017. Even if the widely accepted statistic “8 out of 10 startups fail” is wrong, it is true that a vast proportion of startups are likelier to fail than to succeed. As a result […]