Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: December 2, 2008
Just found out that iKobo will be opening their doors again on December 4th. About a month back, they announced their plan to shutdown their services. Apparently something has happened, rather changed, in the last couple of weeks. This is a good news for the Atlanta region. Every failed company componds the failure rates for [...]
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 29, 2008
Roger Ehrenberg wrote an excellent article on why monitor110.com failed even though they were able to raise boatload of money. I will reserve my thoughts for later, but following are the 7 deadliest sins according to Roger, which I wholeheartedly agree:
The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too late in the [...]
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 15, 2008
Alright!!! enough is enough - I am getting inundated with questions about my future plans. Most of you know by now that I had quit Music Intelligence Solutions; going to be two months soon. So the question is what’s next? Well, we are just getting started on a new innovative product and hopefully we’ll get [...]
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 15, 2008
There was an interesting article on ABC News about email usage, Best Way to Annoy Your Co-Workers? Using E-mails.
Even though I agree with most of it, a clear distinction between big monolithic companies vs Startup/agile companies are warranted. For example in big companies, it is all about CYA. But in a startup environment, it is [...]