December 2009
36 posts
Drawing the right lessons from Toyota's success &...
Toyota’s practices strongly indicate that its managers saw financial results not as a linear sum of results contributed by a collection of mechanical parts, but rather as emerging from a process of relationships among a community of interdependent parts. So, if Toyota’s operations yield low costs and little waste, it is not because Toyota relentlessly strives to subtract parts. Instead, it is...
Very nice lunch at Ruby Tuesday on Church St. fajitas were gr8.
As father of two girls, this one hits close to home. 40 Is Not the New 12 - Judith Warner http://bit.ly/828jAg
SmsTweets ranks 103 in the list of Twitter Clients people use? http://twitstat.com/twitterclientusers.html (via @mayanks) - good show!
“How sad if we pass through life and never see through the eyes of a child.” ~Anthony de Mello (via @copyblogger)
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Rory Bremner’s TED talk at Oxford this year, watched it then and it’s now online. A good laugh. http://bit.ly/8wB2Ch (via @anjali28)
Going Cheney on Climate - http://bit.ly/8JZmvd - don’t always agree with Friedman, but he makes a good case here.
3 Steps to Selling Better Today - http://su.pr/2mkbzs blog post #sales #startup RT @zebugroup
Good insights on ramping your SaaS business sensibly - managing customer acq costs and marketing http://icio.us/ljrekp
Lowering customer acquistion costs for your #SaaS business #selling http://icio.us/w03tv0
Passion shouldn’t blind us to figuring out if our solution is important enuff to make customers wanna buy! #startup http://post.ly/ELOu
Passion shouldn't blind us to figuring out if our...
They fail to look at whether the need their product aims to solve is important enough to get the customer to overcome inertia and purchase it. I hate to admit it, but I have made both mistakes myself. In my fourth company Watermark Software, we introduced a document imaging product that was so cool that we got half a page coverage in the Sunday New York Times, and great reviews in all the...
3 Steps to Selling Better Today →
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One of the biggest lessons that I learnt as an entrepreneur and marketer is to appreciate sales folks. Before you even think of…
Founders - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (hat tip to le Carré) - http://ksrikrishna.com/TO - new blog post
@chitrasri CD is reviewed in Kalaimagal Dec issue...
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Idea to A Business in 30 minutes - every (re-)starting entrepreneur should watch (via Iqbal Gandham) #startup http://post.ly/EFhA
Idea to A Business in 30 minutes - every...
via vimeo.com The video makes the presentation quite rich. Despite the Coventry references :-), its applicability is global. Many a foil I got a sense of should have done that (or did that last time, why did I skip it this time?) Posted via web from ksrikrishna’s posterous | Comment »
The UK’s best handheld for 40years: why print isn’t going anywhere for a long, time.(via junta42) http://post.ly/EBts
The UK's best handheld for 40years: why print...
via blog.junta42.com Love it! Posted via web from ksrikrishna’s posterous | Comment »
ksrikrishna @fredwilson’s daughter went to college with a laptop and a 27” monitor, but noTV or cable http://bit.ly/5Oxc6f @altheasys
Why the newspaper industry thinks it can take on Google http://bit.ly/5mp6Em RT @Rajnishr
How Jason (Cohen @asmartbear) build up an audience (6K subs in 24 mo) http://su.pr/57mm5q - content (aka hard work), patience & luck #blog
“The purpose of life is NOT to get your desires. It is to become something more than you are & to give your true gifts.” (via @tonyrobbins)
Snow whispering down / all day long, / earth has vanished / leaving only sky - Joso #haiku
RT @douglaskarr “My daughter hates me. 1st - Just made her go change into a new dress for a school party. I’m old.” #fathers #daughters
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The 9/11 of 1859 - http://bit.ly/51Der5 - while not quite the same, those of us who forget #history are bound to repeat it.
In @HeathaT NYT piece, Narisetti’s quote abt corruption in Indian press often cut. DH exception http://bit.ly/85ef4P RT @sidin RT @lpolgreen
An old silent pond / Into the pond / A frog jumps, / Splash! Silence again - Basho #haiku
SiliconBlue Technologies is the First New FPGA Company to Ship in Production Volume in 20 Years: http://bit.ly/6JeQwo RT @ElecDesignNews
Everything (that’s the name of) an Awesome #Utility that Locates Files and Folders Instantly in Windows http://su.pr/1AMLeT - I love it.
How do you make sure you hire the right programmer? http://su.pr/2XtIQx http://su.pr/861RnN #sensibly
November 2009
70 posts
10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - http://bit.ly/7qKLph (via @mattuk)
“Cherish the life we have…” - its clear I am not doing this. I will starting NOW - are you? #life #gratitude
Thinking comfortable / Thoughts / with a friend in silence / in the cool evening… Hyakuchi #haiku