- How social media is destroying useful criticism: Everyone is being nice and dishonest
In this age of Facebook friends and Twitter followers, and where everyone is trying to build her/his Tribe (or 1000 fans) , everybody is playing nice - everybody is playing to please one's echo chamber - no one likes the…
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- How powerful smartphones will be in future
In 10 years time, the average smartphone will be more powerful than the top-of-the-line desktop/laptop of today:
A regular ARM-powered smartphone, such as an iPhone 4S, is some 12-13 orders of magnitude more po…
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- Why VCs Really Reject Startups: They don't like the CEO
The number one reason why many Venture Capitalists reject startups is because they don't think "you are the right CEO". Of course, some might say what gave the VC the right to be true about everything apart from the fact…
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- How to be remarkable #133: Build a business from scratch
Ah, the eternal business sucecss story, to build a business from scratch. It takes a lot of things for this to happen - the idea, resources, the motivation, the planning, ...and luck. Whether or not you have all these th…
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- The myth of the suffering artist: How true in this age of overpaid art and undertalented artists?
Looking at the current crop of artists, you would say the myth of suffering artists is over - look, for example at Damien Hirst, and all the installataion artists of his type. Look for example, at bad writers like Chetan…
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- Introducing Rules for startups: Collection of useful tips from 50+ great books on entrepreneurship
Rules for Startups is a never-before compilation of big ideas about startups from 50+ Best Books on Entrepreneurship.
Useful tips from the 50+ useful books for all you entrepreneurs out there have been arranged acro…
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- Four ways to secure your smartphone
A study on smartphone security found that of all people who found smartphones, 72% tried to access photos, 57% tried to open a file called "Saved Passwords," and 43%tried to open an app called "Online Banking."
Since m…
Topic: Geek, Apple, Android, Smartphone, Tips | Read more
- Study: 'Don't use smartphones while driving' is the new 'don't drink and drive'
A test in U.K. shows that using smartphones makes you a bad driver, more than alcohol does. Using smartphones while driving makes reaction times 37.6 percent slower. In fact, Smartphone innovations such as voice-enabled…
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- Let's just say it: there is no right age to start a company
Take all those fluff stories about young Silicon Valley entrepeneurs for what they - habitual media glorification that helps sell papers and magazines, and nothing else. Truth is: There is no right age to start a company…
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- How a Y Combinator startup interview feels like
An entrepreneur writes about his YCombinator 2009 interview headed by Paul Graham. I have highlighted two important questions:
Paul opened proceedings and cut to the chase: our market is already very crowded, althoug…
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- How to start a political party in India
The Congress party was formed more than 125 years ago. When the indpendence was won, Gandhiji wanted Congress to be disbanded but they did not listen. It took another 40 years or so before a party was able to rival to ri…
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- Startup essentials: 10 essential documents
Jason Nazar of Docstoc has posted 10 highly useful documents that most startups need. Here is the link and here's the list of 10 essential startup documents needed t in the United States. Goes without saying that these l…
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- What will happen in Pakistan next?
Nitin at the Acorn blog analyzes what might happen next in the troubled country of Pakistan after General Musharraf has imposed Martial LawNext: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, electronics, appliances, home servi…
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