Time and practice
Oh the shock that hit me when I saw graduate students get scared of making presentations even to an audience of 50 fellow students. Not my fault, I eat presentations/speeches as breakfast all throu…
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2014
What a welcome :-)
I paid Brickwork India Pvt ltd company a visit yesterday for a review session of one of our projects with them. The below caught my attention. What a way to welcome Le Intern to their premises :-).…
2013
Failing forward: The case of Celestine, tiketmobile and more
If you’ve put your ears close to the Nigerian technology community, you must have heard the latest gist about one Celestine and his startup TiketMobile. Happily for me, his case stirred up a …
The risky business of taking risks
Few weeks back, I got into a long conversation with a friend. At some point, we spoke about the kinds of businesses and investments I’ve been involved in since I began my entrepreneurship jou…
Just Google it, don’t ask me
Last Friday, I was at Startup Grind held at the gorgeous Micorosoft Research lab, Bangalore, India. As usual, several things happened there – networking etc. Of all, one of the key things tha…
Of air conditioned restaurants and government tax
This afternoon, on my way back home, the thought of having my lunch at KFC came knocking and I couldn’t resist it, for good reasons. I’ve been visiting this particular branch of KFC for some time b…
I’m going to get a lot of that money
I’ve been in search of a property for some time now (let’s save the details). So, this past week, I decided to move out of my comfort zone and really go in search of what I want. It all…
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Few minutes back , I wanted to check my post paid connection account just to be sure things are still in-tact (call it close monitoring…some telcos cheat post paid customers). First, the page…
My distasteful experience with Yepme, an Indian ecommerce site
Last Friday, I saw a suggested post Facebook about 2 Graphic Tees selling at Rs.499. I normally don’t jump at offers like this, ‘cos of my past experience with cheap things. However, th…
My sugar-free week experience
About two weeks ago, I decided to try out a new challenge – staying off processed sugar for 7 days. I didn’t want to walk the road alone, hence the post. With 5 people, we kick-started …
