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A vacation that cost me a fortune.. | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. September 18, 2006. A vacation that cost me a fortune. Market crossed 12K again today after going ‘fana’ in May-June 2006. It had lost more than 3000 points around that time. So what went wrong? Nothing except that I went on a vacation to Mussourie, in July and the market lost few points on that eventful day – and it triggered margin calls on my holdings…! Posted in Money Talk. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Nuances of starting a venture | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. December 21, 2006. Nuances of starting a venture. Few days back I met these guys: Brad Galle. Both MBA students from MIT Sloan to discuss their AnswerU venture! 1 Who is your partner:. 1 If you chose first option: pure outsourcing,. You get the technical expertise, team office, everything upfront. 2 If you chose second option: partnership with established startups. I PROS and CONS. 1 You have a business ...
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Price differential in a global economy.. | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. January 22, 2007. Price differential in a global economy. No doubt that we prefer to get our electronic gadgets from countries like US/Canada/Japan. Is the Ministry of Trade and commerce oblivious of this fact? And I can just imagine the amount of sales tax that could have been generated within India, had it been priced at par with US/Canada etc? I am pretty sure, the sales of iPod in India would go up d...
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Onam Boat Race and Organizational Behaviour | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. August 30, 2006. Onam Boat Race and Organizational Behaviour. How fast can a team of 100 rowers row a boat. Statistically these 10 rowers selected at random can row the boat at the same average speed as the larger boat. So the race should end in a draw. As Jim Clarke founder of Netscape puts it). The startups are ready to pay exhorbitantly high salary to recruit the bright guys (you need to pay much ...
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Five point someone…. | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. November 3, 2006. Five point someone…. It took me to my IT-BHU days. Though I was no where near being a 5-pointer but not too far either. The book reminded me of everything that we used to do in the campus. We saw two lights of a jeep (BHU Security) and that scared the shit out of us. We paddled the bicycle at a pace that wud have put Lance Armstrong to shame! Laquo; Google on a shopping spree…. I havent...
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Finance Theory vs. Real Stock Market | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. December 4, 2006. Finance Theory vs. Real Stock Market. 8221; . I call these as “hypothetical conditions”, because I haven’t been able to find a market which is governed by these rules. I read the transcripts of Ramesh Damani’s chat on rediff and his statements on Godfrey Philips. An upswing of 40% in a week! I will let the picture do the talking. (stock quotes from yahoo finance). Or is it actually the ...
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Irrational Exuberance.. | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. November 20, 2006. Mr Greenspan coined this phrase to indicate the irrationality of investors in the overvalued stock market. I find this phrase more apt in our day-to-day purchases that we make rather than the stock market. I assume he was the Store manager, as he was more elegantly (read lavishly) dressed than others. And asked its price – here’s the conversation that follows:. Hearing this conversatio...
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Business 2.0 | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. December 5, 2006. Seems that I have been out of scene for quite sometime – the “2.0” buzz had caught on faster than I envisioned. I just knew about Web 2.0 and Mobile 2.0. But recently chanced upon something like “Business 2.0”. If we didn’t had “Business 1.0”, then what the heck is this “ Business 2.0. So here it goes –. 8221; and some others. Like the way I am doing…! Nuances of starting a venture.
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Google on a shopping spree… | A Random Walk
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8230;down the hallways of technology, marketing, capital market, and ramblings of the devil ’s mind…. October 18, 2006. Google on a shopping spree…. Its a fact – if you want to work in Google, better start an internet venture, get acquired by Google, pocket in few millions (billions if you are very lucky) and be the product manager/head of your division in Google…! You got it right, Google acquired Writely and called itself Goolge Spreadsheets. So get your act together, and startdoing something on intern...
