What’s your relationship with numbers?

Something that I am thinking about, after my last ILP class. Statistics are important. They provide measurement to the results. I typically treat numbers as “something there, needed, but not something that I work from”. Money and numbers are secondary for me. This definitely makes me approach things from a different perspective. But I am […]

CDAC experience

We do a lot of work in localization – especially for Gujarati language. We met Mahesh Kulkarni of CDAC Pune yesterday. We have met many other people in public sector and government over the last 3 years about Utkarsh and GujaratiLexicon. We have always got many hurdles. People have always spoken a lot about it, […]

On business ideas

We brainstorm about new business ideas every now and then. Some things I recently: We should think about the size of the idea, not just how good it sounds! How much revenue can it generate? The idea should provide a steady value addition and revenue stream. Anything that gives less than 20% growth in a […]

Monthly Reviews – lessons from September

First Tuesday of every month, is a review day for us at Magnet. We meet individual teams, discuss about the previous month and set out goals for the current month. It was quite interesting this time. We completed one month in the new office! But it feels it’s been much more! So many things happened […]

HP’s Rules of Garage

Something that inspired us, and is on our wall poster now. Believe you can change the world. Work quickly, keep the tools unlocked, work whenever. Know when to work alone and when to work together. Share tools, ideas. Trust your colleagues. No Politics. No bureaucracy. (These are ridiculous in a garage). The customer defines a […]