Cycling and entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship June 23, 2010 pranav 27 Comments

I am a cyclist and an entrepreneur. It was 6 months back, on this very day that I started cycling and its been slightly over 3 years that I ventured into the world of entrepreneurship. And every time I mount on the saddle and gently push the paddles, somehow I can’t ignore the unmistakable similarity between cycling and entrepreneurship. This thought has occurred to me so many times that I finally decided to sit down and write about it. So what is the similarity, you…

Middle east, the new outsourcing destination?

networking June 15, 2010 pranav Leave a comment

Last week, I was at the NASSCOM BPO summit and I couldn’t help but notice that quite a few of the sponsors were government agencies or information technology representatives of other countries: a) Royal Government of Bhutan b) UK Trade and Investment c) Information and Technology Association of Jordan d) Scottish Development International e) IT Enabled Services Secretariat Ghana Of these, the one that caught my eye was Jordan, primarily because this was the first time I was seeing a middle east country projecting itself as an…

Met with Chetan Bhagat at NASSCOM BPO Conference

networking June 11, 2010 pranav 2 Comments

A picture is worth a thousand words and this one says it all Chetan Bhagat was a valedictory speaker at the NASSCOM BPO Summit and we had the opportunity to have a few words with him after he finished his insightful and inspirational talk. And in case you did not notice, what he is holding in his hand is the live photo gift that we created for him during the summit. We hope he likes it and it finds a permanent spot on his table,…