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Chetan Bhagat – One Night @ The Call Centre

May 7, 2013 3 Comments

wealthymatters Last week I joined a new library and this was the first book I checked out. Chetan Bhagat is the biggest selling English language novelist in India’s history and he was featured in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2010.Fast Company USA numbers him among the 100 most creative people in business. Chetan is today a very successful motivational speaker.After a mechanical Engineering degree from IIT Delhi and an IIM (A) MBA,Chetan worked in Hong Kong as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank.He quit investment banking to start writing to make change happen India.His is believed to be the voice of India’s rising entrepreneurial class.After reading the book I can see why Chetan is India’s paperback king.Do read the book if you get a chance.Till then,here are my takeaways from the book:

“So, to impress you I have to break the same laws of physics I made?”-God

The most important call in the world – The inner call,the little voice inside that wants to talk to you.But you can only hear it when you are at peace. The voice tells you what you really want.It is easy to ignore-because you are distracted or busy or just too comfortable in life.You can ignore it until life brings you to a dead end and there is nothing ahead but a dark hole.Sometimes the voice isn’t subtle,it shouts and bites you. Read more of this post

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Naresh Goyal

May 6, 2013 Leave a comment

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Rarely do we come across pieces on entrepreneurs, written by their peers.The following is one of them,written by Captain Gopinath .Do read it and enjoy!

My personal opinion is that the good Capt.is somewhat stinting in his praise.But then perhaps I am biased, being a shareholder of both airlines and having had to live with the consequences of their decisions.Anyways, little known travel agent is not how his contemporaries in the Mumbai airport during his early days recall him.A knowledgeable,helpful and dependable person is the feeling I get from hearing their stories.There’s more about his early life after the piece by Capt. Gopinath. Read more of this post

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Focus On Sleep And Relaxation

May 3, 2013 2 Comments

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Chet Kanojia

April 28, 2013 2 Comments

wealthymatters Chaitanya Kanojia,affectionately called Chet,an Indian entrepreneur and CEO of Aereo, a New York-based technology company,is the David who has taken on media Goliaths in the US with an antenna the size of a 10 paise coin.

What he did was allow subscribers to view live TV programmes over the internet for a small monthly charge starting at $8. In the process, he has threatened millions of dollars that cable companies pay broadcasters for their content.As expected, he got sued, by 17 plaintiffs, including major broadcasters such as CBS, NBC Universal, ABC and Fox, for copyright infringement. But in a landmark judgment for US consumers, on April 1, 2013 an appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling saying Aereo’s streams did not infringe copyright laws and could continue operating.Cable companies in the US charge customers $100-200 a month for some 500 channels, when, in fact, they watch just 7-8. This technology offers custimers a chance to watch just what they want at a vastly reduced price. Read more of this post

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The Oldest Businesses In The World

April 27, 2013 4 Comments

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Not all businesses get off the ground.Not all businesses turn a profit.Few last past the first year,few make it through the first decade and fewer are passed down three generations.

However there are exceptions.These businesses listed below have managed to last over three centuries.Some are over a millennia old.One of them close to fifteen centuries old.Talk of built to last! Read more of this post