Innovation as Competitive Advantage

During my travel I CHOSE to read the book by Irene Khan : The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Right. I could not sleep over a week while reading this book. I made some notes out of this reading and thought of sharing with my readers. She has used World Bank statistics in her book [...]

I have been interacting and observing with Finnish Innovation system and the country culture with reference to the entrepreneurship. In my view this country does not tolerate failure as it is prevalent in Japan where people committ suicided if they fail in theri new venture development. In my view f

Dear All, गैरआवासीय नेपाली दिवसको पूर्व सन्ध्यामा नेपाल सरकार शिक्षा मन्त्रालय र गैरआवासीय नेपाली संघको संयुक्त तत्वाधानमा नेपालमा खुल्ला विश्व विद्यालयका विषयमा आज काठमाडौंमा एक वृहद अन्तरक्रिया कार्यक्रम सम्पन्न भयो । नेपालमा खुल्ला विश्व विद्यालय स्थापनाका लागि नेपाल सरकारको प्रयासलाई साकार रुप द

It has been over three years since we started to pivot our business model. From day one we followed the following approach and we are still following that: 1. Passionate about the business idea 2. Pivoting business model to have unique value proposition 3. Creating that makes all the TEAM proud of i

Recent media speculation about Nokia has been one of a first types in whole history of Nokia. Being an ex-Nokian, I followed these speculations closely. Anssi, the last remaining member of Jorma’s diamond team, said goodbye to Nokia. Jorma announced that he will be stepping down after this term in 2

It was a great experience to participate on the annual seminar of KIOS with the theme: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS FOR DEVELOPMENT. This time KIOS had partnered with DEMO Finland to combine the voice and have even better impact. This was an unique approach to seek utility on the boundaries of the sta

While reading the recent book Bannana in Russia by Martti Vallila, I validated the following lessons learned from Steve Blank: If you don’t teach it or write it down, the accumulated knowledge of your career is gone. War stories about your career can be entertainment, or even better if you want to t

Bill Gates has contributed on a best selling book on Creative Capitalism inspired by his new voice in philanthropy: Bills & Melinda Gates Foundation. There has been various reviews of the book out of which I picked two reviews here to discuss this new corporate philosophy. Harvard Magazine published

Tony Blair to Advice Vinod Khosla’s VC Firm is a latest update on Khosla Venture’s attempt to shape the PESTEL factors in CleanTech industry. The acronym, PESTEL and Mr. Blair’s impact on cleanTech industry is the main summary of my reading so far. ‘P’ stands for political factors where I do not hav

While going through various sources for the basis of competing for the future, I came to the following 4 aspects in general: Crisis as an opportunity, energy as a variable to monitor, global citizenship and VCR. There are other issues also but the major area we are focusing now in our meetings with