Category: Ideas

Ideas

Best sales and Business books in 2010

I read a post by Erica Stritch on the best sales and business books for 2010 and was impressed by the books that made it to her list. Among other books, she also mentions the following books, which I have personally found both interesting and inspiring for a sales person:  SNAP Selling – Jill Konrath The Little big things – Tom Peters Linchpin – Seth Godin Mojo – Marshall Goldsmith Drive – Daniel Pink Do you know of any other book which is interesting and in the same league as the one’s I found interesting? 

Ideas

Google on it’s way downhill?

Google has had a great run till now what with their innovations on monetizing their biggest strength – Search. There also has been a lot of talk on how the last slew of products coming out of Google have not hot the bull’s eye (maybe with the exception of Android and Chrome). We also have seen an exodus of talent from Google to its rival FaceBook and the lengths Google has gone to stop it. Does all of this indicate the start of the decline of Google as the internet superpower ? Is there someone already in the making who […]

Business Model, Ideas, Sales

Go-to-market strategies that can kill innovations

I think we can learn a lot from our own failures and also from how others around us fail. I would like to take a trip down my memory lane. Early in 2001, there was an interesting organization called iNabling Technologies founded in 1997 by John Aravamuthan. It also got a funding of  $3 million (B V Jagadeesh, Infinity Technology Investments, ICICI) Making e-mail access affordable was the mission of Bangalore-based iNabling Technologies. The indigenously developed iStation was a low-cost e-mail device loaded with Engati software, which allows multiple language usage. The iNablers (as they call themselves) had also designed […]