Razor’s edge ?

At friend’s daughter’s birthday party, happened to meet some old college friends. Generally catching up on the social front, came to know about Suryan’s brother. His brother Sridhar is now adays in China.
Somewhere in my mind Sridhar’s life has made a permanent mark. He did 10month long trekking of the east coast . [...]

School chain project

Two IIM-A students planning school chain project to bring innovative concepts early on in the education process.
This one will be interesting to watch.

More on social enterprise

SEI intiatives at HBS -
One factor working against educational institutions interested in producing more socially aware leaders is business school rankings produced by various publications. The lower starting salaries earned by graduates going into nonprofits can drop a school’s ranking, Tierney said. These rankings should begin to take the nonprofit sector into account, perhaps [...]

Nowhere Men

Long time back during college days I read Pritish Nandy’s poem Nowhere Man (isn’t this an amazing fact that an average Joe does most of the right things only during college-days, once out of college its just about injecting slow reality in the imagination factory !)

I have travelled all the lonely highways in the
autumn and [...]

RISC

Via Atanu Dey’s post getting to know more about the progress in RISC project. I met Atanu last year and round the same time exchanged few emails with Rajesh Jain. I was immediately impressed by the beauty of the model and its promise. RISC project is all about leveraging the entrepreneurial [...]

Acumen Fund

Acumen Fund has a very compelling model -
Acumen Fund’s mission is to link high net worth individuals to some of the world’s most innovative problem-solvers through a portfolio approach

Craigslist

Craig Newmark , founder of the hugely popular Craigslist, on his philosophy and customer-driven approach -
“There’s a figure in popular mythology who goes to high school who wears glasses, a pocket protector, and has no social skills. Those stereotypes have a basis in reality. I [...]

WildBlue satellite

Free bandwidth !! If governments in developing world are willing to subsidize it.
WildBlue satellite
WildBlue plans to exploit the Ka frequencies, 20 and 30 GHz, using geostationary (GEO) earth orbit satellites (satellites that are stationed in a fixed position over the earth). This will allow high-speed Internet access nationwide with just one satellite in place. [...]

Simputer: Not a common man’s device anymore

There must be some lessons to be learned from Simputer project :
Well, it’s not a cheap computer.
Its proponents have since discarded the buzzword — ‘cheap computer’ — that brought the Simputer into the limelight.
“We are not making a cheap computer. We are making a sophisticated device that will make computing possible for everyone,” declares [...]

Thoughts on RISC

I will start off my attempt to understand RISC model by asking a question - What was common between Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Dostoevsky’s Crime and punishment ? Both were stories of human life, struggle and change. Like all great fiction both novels attempted to address the fundamentals of human life using some [...]