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Sleep. Seriously. It is one of the most important aspects of our life

January 17, 2019What I Learnt Today 1

Mathew Walker, a neuroscientist and Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging lab and Sleep scientist at Google makes a definitive case for Sleeping right and why you should care. In his 2018 much acclaimed book ‘Why We Sleep : Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams’ (Tomasz Tunguz lists it amongst his 10 favorite books in 2018) he presents facts and painstakingly covers multiple studies to offer a compelling case to pay attention and urgently fix your sleeping issues.

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Your apps know where you were last night!

January 11, 2019What I Learnt Today 0

If you are using apps for weather, news or local information ( finding petrol station or ATM) the data is available to anyone willing to pay a price and then analyse your daily habits, over days, accurate location recorded as frequently as every 15-20 minutes providing a detailed snapshot of everything you do.

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Team or Money?

January 10, 2019What I Learnt Today 0

Today I attended a TiE meeting in Bangalore, featuring Prashanth (PV) Boccasam and Madan Padaki. The Topic was “Leveling Up about StartUps and Upstarts”. In the initial part of the program Prashanth narrated his choice of first job out of college, between IBM (offer of 76K) and Microsoft (33k).

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Resolutions are a good way to kick-start aspirational behaviors.

January 9, 2019What I Learnt Today 0

Continuing on my Previous Blog – on addiction templates in apps, I was wondering if there is any basis to our large scale social behavior of New Year Resolutions. Why some carry them through and most don’t. Well it seems there is some basis.

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Remote work is real option!

January 8, 2019SAAS, What I Learnt Today 0

I was amazed when I learnt that Zapier actually had no office for their (then) 140 member team and everyone works remotely from all over the world. 37 Signals, now Basecamp championed the idea in their 2013 Book – Remote : Office not required. Written by @Jason Fried co-founder of Basecamp it is a must read to understand the changing dynamics. I highly recommend this.

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The Spacebar Trick on the iPhone keyboard!

January 7, 2019What I Learnt Today 0

This one is for iPhone users. All of us know that it can be difficult to land the cursor exactly where you want it, using a finger. Sometimes a whole word gets selected, sometimes it lands a letter away making it tedious to move it a step to the left or right.

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Entrepreneurship and Hope are intrinsically connected

January 5, 2019What I Learnt Today 0

Can Entrepreneurship change the fate of a country ravaged by mindless war and unending conflicts? Seems so. This Redherring article on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Yemen and the unwavering optimism of entrepreneurs like Ibrahim Saleh who believes “…I think there’s a good future in Yemen” warmed my heart.

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Who owns our data? How do you stop the data monopoly?

January 4, 2019What I Learnt Today, Biz Tech 0

How do you stop the data monopoly of The Four (Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook)? It is important to ensure that we co-own and have total access to the co created data that has given The Four a near monopoly of the currency of our times – our data.

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1% of Salesforce’s Revenue Makes a Unicorn

January 3, 2019What I Learnt Today, Sales 0

Many of you would have come across this post by Tomasz Tunguz, Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures. His frequent posts are primarily data driven and are pointed and succinct. In this post and one after that (where he does the math) he points out to the maturity of the SAAS companies where a “…a small fraction of an incumbent is a billion-dollar company. If you start a business tomorrow that is able to cleave 1% of revenue from Salesforce, you will have built a billion-dollar business.”

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Jeffrey P. Bezo’s letter to Amazon shareholders

January 1, 2019SAAS, What I Learnt Today 0

Jeffrey P. Bezo’s letter to Amazon shareholders clocked its 20th this year. A much anticipated annual ritual, it is led with thoughts, that I presume, are top of his mind. Over the years it has ranged from philosophical, to strategic, to tactical.

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