Friday's 2.0
The Mc-D model
I was browsing my favorite newspaper, “the Wall Street Journal” and I came across this piece of news which sort of stopped me for a moment – “Your Bad luck is a windfall for airlines” and what I gathered is that your ticket cancellation, preponement, postponement or any such arrangements yields airlines a whopping $2 billion a year, much more than what they earn for baggage services and a simple search shows that a typical airlines makes around $15 billion. So if you add all these ticket alteration revenues, baggage revenues and all other value added service revenues, I am sure will come to a huge % of the total revenues but still one perceives that airline makes most of its money via the ticket sales.
The NASSCOM EMERGE Forum identity: re-Energized
The NASSCOM EMERGE Forum has unveiled a new visual identity. Designed by Ray & Keshavan, the new identity is a reflection of NASSCOM’s outlook and the focus for emerging companies, combining a fresh, vibrant and eco-friendly green with a dependable dark grey. The green colour shows life, longevity and the strong sense to succeed! The EMERGE Forum is symbolized by arrows on an upward trend which shows growth, direction and vision to all SMEs. The set of arrows also stand for collaboration and co-operation among the SME companies, which is the basis of the EMERGE Forum.
Transforming India Through Technology – session with Bill Gates
Microsoft, Windows and Bill Gates are actually synonymous. When we think computers, the first word that comes to mind is any of these three, and not necessarily in that order. So, one can well imagine how things were going to be, when NASSCOM hosted the great man on a hot Friday afternoon on 24th July at Taj Palace. In spite of our best efforts, last minutes registrations were unavoidable and the enthusiasm exhibited by the executives, trying to catch a glimpse of the iconic figure, was nothing short of electrifying.
Cloud Computing: Where you gonna keep your gold?
Last week, I was presenting a session on Cloud Computing: Balancing Economics & Innovation organized by NASSCOM Emerge Forum for SMEs.
While I was able to create excitement by demonstrating The Economics of Cloud Computing; >95% of the senior executives were concerned on the security. I said hold on till Eureka! – It was the last section of my presentation along with audience poll. I asked 2 questions:
Solutions that have worked for Product companies 49th session of the NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0
Live Blogging the second Un-conference session of the NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0 at the NASSCOM HQ in New Delhi. The topic we are discussing today is: Solutions by Product Companies.
We have Ankur Lal, CEO Infozech Software, leading the session along with Arvind Jha of Movico Technologies. We also have Mr. Sharad Sharma – Chair, NASSCOM Product forum.
Marketing and Sales Strategies/Approaches for SME – 20th session, Friday’s 2.0 Chennai
About 45 people attended the session at Chennai- Marriot Hotel to hear the two speakers on core theme of getting business from the market for IT SMEs. Hall was full to learn this most sought after subject. We all know that this subject is often treated as unpleasant but essential evil for technology community. It also makes and breaks the organization.
Building Software Products for India – NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0 48th session by Mr. Kumud Goel
LIVE Blogging the NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0 48th session, and well we are going to make it interactive as the session lead Mr. Kumud Goel who is also one of the founding members of NASSCOM.
Incidentally its a great day, coz the NASSCOM EMERGE Community turns one today, I must congratulate Avinash (NASSCOM) for the same and now we have the session underway 
Paul Shoker on Essential Tools Of Sales at the NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0 47th session
LIVE Blogging the NASSCOM Friday’s 2.0 at the NASSCOM Headquarters, New Delhi. The room is full to the brim and we have people networking over tea right now!
Okay so we are a go with Paul shaking hands with the entire audience and glad to start the session with Ankur Lal (Founder and CEO, Infozech Software Ltd.) Im always amazed with Ankur’s persona
“Don’t be an Idiot, you can’t do business here”
“Don’t be an Idiot, you can’t do business here”
This is the exact statement supposed to have uttered by Nandan Nilekani’s uncle when he announced that he and six others will start Infosys way back in 1981!!!!
EoC2 – a Roaring Success
Just back from the EoC2 (Emerge out Conclave 2) meet. This time it was in Chennai (the first one was held in Delhi last year) and I could feel a lot more energy and enthusiasm. Chennai NASSCOM unit rocks for sure.
I had a great day. The whole event was blogged and hence I will not reinvent the wheel and cover some of the aspects what I saw or perceived.
