But who is responsible, teachers or students or college?

I am not bragging but i am not happy with our education system. I was out on a recruitment drive 2 weeks back in a so called tier 1 engineering college in Bangalore, India. I expected these final year computer science students to answer these below mentioned questions on web technology but unfortunately most of …

A driver i met in Bhuj. #faces

Name: Ganni Bhai Location: Bhuj, Gujarat Occupation: Driver Story: I met Ganni bhai through his brother who picked me from the bus stand and drove me to my hotel on (date) at (time) of the night in Bhuj. Ganni bhai picked me at 9am the next morning for a trip to the white Rann of Kacchh. …

Notes from James Altucher, TEDxSanDiego

I am a big follower of James Altucher & yes it has changed my life in a better way. Its a 12 minutes video i would strictly recommend everyone to watch the same. I have made a super small note for the talk, James talks about 4 things : Physical Fitness laugh more eat well …

Tibetan superstitions

I bought book title “Folk Culture of Tibet”, I am done finishing first few sections which mentions about known superstitions prevalent tibetan culture,  some of these seems similar to hinduism.                             I am adding some of the crazy/funny/interesting ones here : 1. …

#Faces : Ordinary people with extraordinary efforts.

    Before I begin, credit for this goes to my friend Jugal Mody It was his suggestion while i am traveling i should make notes about interesting people i meet in my overall trip.                             During this 20 days trip I met …

2014 passed, 2015 welcome!!

Happy New Year to everyone to start with. Year 2014 been amazing in following ways : 1. Joined The New Stack, working on building community & writing occasionally. 2. Sister got married to one of the smartest kid I have met so far in 20+ odd years of my life. 3. Moved to Bangalore after …

How to Start a Startup note #5

Today I spent listing to Paul Graham in the how to start a startup series lecture. Paul is fucking awesome, full of fun, honesty & blunt in giving an opinion. We need more such motivators in our startup ecosystem. My notes from his lecture: Listen to your intuition Work with people whom you respect and have known long …

How to Start a Startup note #4

Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder by Reid Hoffman   My notes for his class: Network network network. VC always tends to invest in company with co-founders as they compliment each other. Right place to start a right business like finance related startup makes …

How to Start a Startup note #3

Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching Lecture 9: How to Raise Money and Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and Parker Conrad had an  interesting take on it. Some of my notes from the class: Build something awesome which pulls  VC to you. Most VC invest in team, past success of the founders & product. If …