Chasing Unknown Unknown, The Spirit Of Silicon Valley

A framework that I use to think about problems disruptive technology could help solve is based on what Donald Rumsfeld wrote in his memoir, ...

Fixing Software Patents, One Hack At Time

Software patents are broken and patent trolls are seriously hurting innovation. Companies are spending more money on buying patents to launc...

Bangalore Embodies The Silicon Valley

I spent a few days in Bangalore this month. This place amazes me every single time I visit it. Many people ask me whether I think Bangalore ...

Plotting for serendipity

I rarely eat lunch at my desk. Eating lunch in a cafeteria is such a precious opportunity to waste. I plot for serendipity. That's right...

Taking The Quotes Out Of "Design Thinking"

Bruce Nussbaum, a design thinking thought leader and a professor of Innovation and Design at Parsons The New School of Design, recently wrot...

10 Business Books In 2010

These are the 10 business books published in 2010, that I would recommend you to read. Originally, I wrote this on Quora, in response to ...

Disruptive Cloud Computing Startups At Under The Radar - NoSQL - Aspirin, Vicodin, and Vitamin

It was great to be back at Under The Radar this year. I wrote about disruptive cloud computing start-ups that I saw at Under The Radar las...

Silicon Valley Is An Innovation Dagger

It was a routine trip back home from work one of these days. As soon as I boarded the bus the driver asked me: "So, what do you think a...

India Needs Public Policy And Service Innovation And Not Web 2.0 Companies

The second most populous country with the fourth largest spending power, India, saw a surprising 7.9% YOY GDP growth well above the expecta...

Google Does Not Have Innovator's Dilemma

I asked a question to myself: "Why has Google been incredibly successful in defending and growing its core as well as introducing non-c...

True Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Believing In A BHAG

GigaOM has a post " How Start-ups can win big with VCs " that muddies their point of view of having a clear value proposition with...

Designing An Innovation Incubator To Prevail Over Innovator's Dilemma

The large scale software companies often deal with the tension between incremental and revolutionary innovation. They know that if they onl...

Creating, Nurturing, and Sustaining Innovation Clusters

McKinsey has partnered with the World Economic Forum to create an �Innovation Heat Map" to identify innovation clusters based on the a...

Nokia Is The New Blackberry Of The Emerging Countries

Nokia announced mobile email service, Mail on Ovi, currently targeting the emerging markets . Nokia has had great success in selling reliabl...

Microsoft Cloud Computing Blogger Roundtable

Today Microsoft announced the cloud offering for Exchange and SharePoint . I was invited to participate into the Microsoft Blogger round tab...

First Click Free - Opportunity For The Publishers To Promote Previously Undiscoverable Content

Nick has posted his analysis on Google's First Click Free . This free service allows the content providers to participate into it and ...