Category: Tell Tale

  • Short Story: I’m an Angel – but I like being the Devil’s advocate

    This is a conversation between a founder and an angel investor as they plan to raise the next round of funding for this startup. The angel finds the founder’s estimate of the company’s valuation to be unreal because the the Price to earnings ratio that he calculates. However, the founder reminds him that we are…

  • peek-a-boo: Entrepreneurship and my escapades

    This article was written for ‘Vishwakarma’, the annual magazine of Vivekananda Education Society’s institute of Technology (VESIT). Apart from the editor’s request, the article was written to promote the spirit on entrepreneurship in my capacity as co-founder and promoter of The VESIT Entrepreneurship Cell (tVEC) established in Feb,2008.————————————————————————————————– Since the start of Feb,2008, there has…

  • Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales at Techfest ’08

    “Imagine a world where anybody has access to the sum of human knowledge” And if Wikipedia is the first search result that you imagined, then you’re right there! Jimmy Wales, the funder of Wikipedia was in town and the quote above was according to him responsible for the Genesis of the revolutionary encyclopedia. Wales walked…

  • BarCamp Techfest 01

    Its been long since I wanted to be at a BarCamp, and finally i got a chance this Sunday at Techfest ’08 IITB .Before listing my notes Id like to share what fascinated me in this concept and a little insight about what a BarCamp is all about. The barcamp has got nothing to do…

  • Elecrama ’08: the industrial electronics hub

    Its not the best thing to do when you decide to visit Elecrama on the last day, not only do u gasp at its humongous outreach as a first timer but you are also left asking for more. Ive been postponing my visit to this international industrial electronics exhibition ever since my first year in…