Alok’s Posts
You are fired…
So, Andrew Mason – the CEO of groupon.com was FIRED yesterday. While the Wall Street story has the more ‘propah’ details, this is what Andrew Mason wr...Read More
The Next Generation of Gaming: It’s Not Hard to See!
An article of mine on the future of the business of gaming, as appeared recently on NASSCOM. You don’t have to be ‘Baba Gamedev’ to predict what’s go...Read More
Why come to work?
Reading Marissa Mayer’s new diktat that required all Yahoo! employees to work from office brought back memories: A few years ago, when we were really ...Read More
Dear God, Do you understand your Mobile Bill?
I swear (on GOD), that I can just about manage to run a Company, keep investors happy, drive cars on both sides of roads and even identify a western c...Read More
The Assassin, The Ghost and The Priest
All of us have faced ‘competition’ in some or the other aspect of our lives. This is my interpretation of competition: The Assassin If I were the CEO ...Read More
Are you bribed to work or is your work a bribe?
Are you bribed to work or is your work a bribe? For the past 12 years of being involved with Start Ups, I’ve always been quizzed about compensation qu...Read More
Why do you ‘buy’ irritation?
Can you imagine reading a really gripping novel with full-page ads in the middle of its pages? Or imagine watching a movie that keeps getting interru...Read More
You can’t ‘buy’ Advertising to ‘sell’ Advertising…
Imagine if I came up to you one day with this business idea: Let’s buy a full page ad in the leading newspaper of leading cities and then hire sales p...Read More
Why have all become Farmers (Farmville) and Hit Men (Mafia Wars)?
In the past few weeks, if you haven’t received requests in your in-box to help your friends on their farms on Farmville or help do a few con jobs in M...Read More
Why service at India Retail stores is so bad…
A few weeks back I invested a princely sum of money to buy my Airmax 2010 Nike shoes from the flagship store in San Francisco. Last week, just before ...Read More
Why don’t Companies pay their suppliers on time?
Can you postpone paying your telephone or electricity bills by a couple of months by sweet talking your utility providers? Would you continue working ...Read More
Confessions of a Digital Entrepreneur…
I was born and brought up in a Marwari family where breakfast, lunch and dinner conversations (granny included) were about deals struck and money made...Read More