Elevator Pitch 5 of ?...Pranaam.com a e commerce enabled website for senior citizens
Will detail this soon!
Thursday, December 9, 2010
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Elevator Pitch 4 of ?...Events FM Radio Channel
I really do not know the legal angle on this. There are several events happening across the city in Bangalore. Just the sheer distance , driving, and parking hassles make it difficult to attend. How about a radio channel for live events like a talk by a astronaut visiting bangalore or a politician? Events like a poetry reading, press conferences and talks of all hues. Events like a business quiz or a singing competition might also be interesting.
A local channel for live local events. Some event organisers might want broadcast to be done later like maybe a rock concert, while, many others would be happy to have the event broadcast live. Whatever the case having audio access to local events will be interesting.
I have not done any survey to find if this is a good idea, am sure that validation is helpful. Just now I can only smell the great potential. What do you think?
A local channel for live local events. Some event organisers might want broadcast to be done later like maybe a rock concert, while, many others would be happy to have the event broadcast live. Whatever the case having audio access to local events will be interesting.
I have not done any survey to find if this is a good idea, am sure that validation is helpful. Just now I can only smell the great potential. What do you think?
Elevator Pitch 3 of ?...The business of Family reunions
Product: full service family reunion purpose built resort.
Place: set in the outskirts of a well connected metro. Purpose built resort that leaves you feeling like you experienced living in a large joint family in India. Halls with rolled beds, some cots for seniors, large copper vessel for hot water, hall and lawns for family activities
Price: not per person - charges per family of 50, 100, or 120. Should motivate to get more people in the family! Standard duration of three nights and two days.
Promotion:
Process: from receiving various guests, arranging activities starting from introductions, family cooking, games, puja, story telling, ...to seeing them off. Really value add is the planning and conducting custom designed activities that are for the specific family.
People: apart from housekeeping, cooking will require a specially trained and motivated activities coordinator whose performance will be key success factor. A wide network of reliable pandits, speakers, to dance trainers and movie libraries will be needed and used based on the plan of activities for a specific family.
Physical Evidence: Unique buildings, family pictures, take aways from events and many more
The nuclear family is ubiquitous, however there is a latent need to build bonds with the family. Weddings, parties are serving the purpose but just. A few hours one evening is really not good enough. Another factor is that families are now spread far and wide. If this post makes no sense to you, please do share this with someone who has lived in a joint family and le me know!
Place: set in the outskirts of a well connected metro. Purpose built resort that leaves you feeling like you experienced living in a large joint family in India. Halls with rolled beds, some cots for seniors, large copper vessel for hot water, hall and lawns for family activities
Price: not per person - charges per family of 50, 100, or 120. Should motivate to get more people in the family! Standard duration of three nights and two days.
Promotion:
Process: from receiving various guests, arranging activities starting from introductions, family cooking, games, puja, story telling, ...to seeing them off. Really value add is the planning and conducting custom designed activities that are for the specific family.
People: apart from housekeeping, cooking will require a specially trained and motivated activities coordinator whose performance will be key success factor. A wide network of reliable pandits, speakers, to dance trainers and movie libraries will be needed and used based on the plan of activities for a specific family.
Physical Evidence: Unique buildings, family pictures, take aways from events and many more
The nuclear family is ubiquitous, however there is a latent need to build bonds with the family. Weddings, parties are serving the purpose but just. A few hours one evening is really not good enough. Another factor is that families are now spread far and wide. If this post makes no sense to you, please do share this with someone who has lived in a joint family and le me know!
Elevator Pitch 2 of ?...Connecting shareholders to companies
Product : An on line service to connect shareholders to companies. This will offer shareholders to register proxy's for meetings, vote electronically, and get alerts on AGM's. Similar to de-materialisation and depositary services to carry on activities on line using digital signatures.
Pricing : subscription by companies based on number of shareholders
Promotion: Can be made mandatory to offer such facilities to shareholders depending on how much lobbying power you have at the Ministry of company affairs. Large companies will find it a transparent method using a authorised third party to register proxy's for meetings.
Place: on line services available to a shareholder everywhere. You can actively participate in a company far away from your place of residence if voting on resolutions is also allowed, for a start giving a proxy to someone else is reasonable.
Process: Companies need to register first followed by their shareholders who have digital signatures, thereafter it is various types of transactions.
Want to write the software and sell it to stockholding corporation of India? Contact for further details. This service is required all over the world and has the potential to upgrade to offering services to directors who want to post/vote on board resolutions on line. Do write in. What do you think?
UPDATE: The green initiative of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has began with optional e-annual reports. Still waiting ?
Pricing : subscription by companies based on number of shareholders
Promotion: Can be made mandatory to offer such facilities to shareholders depending on how much lobbying power you have at the Ministry of company affairs. Large companies will find it a transparent method using a authorised third party to register proxy's for meetings.
Place: on line services available to a shareholder everywhere. You can actively participate in a company far away from your place of residence if voting on resolutions is also allowed, for a start giving a proxy to someone else is reasonable.
Process: Companies need to register first followed by their shareholders who have digital signatures, thereafter it is various types of transactions.
Want to write the software and sell it to stockholding corporation of India? Contact for further details. This service is required all over the world and has the potential to upgrade to offering services to directors who want to post/vote on board resolutions on line. Do write in. What do you think?
UPDATE: The green initiative of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs has began with optional e-annual reports. Still waiting ?
Saturday, November 13, 2010
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Visiting to view Dussera Gommbe or Gollu?
Saturday, October 23, 2010
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Elevator Pitch 1 of ?...The simplicity of healthy Veggies
Am looking for some angel funding for this highly scalable model.
Products : slow steamed vegetables with tempering, salads and other 'eat at home' healthy vegetables
Price: based on daily vegetable prices and yield rates. Product mix to offer best price and 'seasonal' vegetables
Place: Independent stores in residential localities and then several others including shop in shop options
Promotion:
People: Trained in hygiene, slow cooking, healthy cooking, and service. Incentive based on yield rates and customer satisfaction.
Process: Buying based on price matrix that compares prices of different vegetables, average yield and same day last year rates etc., Washing and cleaning using equipment and natural vegetable wash products, cleaning/cutting. cooking, bain marie and selling.
Physical Evidence: open kitchen ( glass partition), bain marie, employee uniforms and service, packaging
Apart from helping people buy healthy food at really good prices, there is potential for the waste generated to be used as cattle feed etc. rather than dumping it in drains and clogging them.
Am looking for funding to build a pilot unit. Hope my application to a angel investor gets accepted. About the economics, it is really good without considering stuff like contract farming and such backward integration.
Now rush me your comments. Palyadha angadi alli will you buy?
Products : slow steamed vegetables with tempering, salads and other 'eat at home' healthy vegetables
Price: based on daily vegetable prices and yield rates. Product mix to offer best price and 'seasonal' vegetables
Place: Independent stores in residential localities and then several others including shop in shop options
Promotion:
People: Trained in hygiene, slow cooking, healthy cooking, and service. Incentive based on yield rates and customer satisfaction.
Process: Buying based on price matrix that compares prices of different vegetables, average yield and same day last year rates etc., Washing and cleaning using equipment and natural vegetable wash products, cleaning/cutting. cooking, bain marie and selling.
Physical Evidence: open kitchen ( glass partition), bain marie, employee uniforms and service, packaging
Apart from helping people buy healthy food at really good prices, there is potential for the waste generated to be used as cattle feed etc. rather than dumping it in drains and clogging them.
Am looking for funding to build a pilot unit. Hope my application to a angel investor gets accepted. About the economics, it is really good without considering stuff like contract farming and such backward integration.
Now rush me your comments. Palyadha angadi alli will you buy?
Sunday, October 17, 2010
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Crisp Philosophy
John Chakkola who studied with me at Brindavan Public School and Qureshi who worked with me at Hyderabad Allwyn send me some 'great thoughts in few words' and I feel it might be worth sharing. I dont know if they are original or whether they are just forwards. In any case, it does not take away the value of the lines.
John Chakkola
The higher mind is abstract and acts without intention.The concrete mind conditioned by time always acts with intention.
Intellectualism belongs to the urban world. Man must prepare his mind to be inspired by nature itself instead of trying to be inspired by its teachings.
Psychological time is the gap between thought and action. When psychological time is removed from our conciousness we begin to be for ever living in the moment. Such a man is no longer a seeker.
"He must be out of his mind" is a phrase originally used to describe one who is divinely inspired. It meansthat the person is inspired by a power that is outside and beyond him.
A human being must rise beyond every form of peer pressure before his life itself becomes a prayer.
It is those who have not come to terms with their past who try to politicize all differences in the world.
Man must detach himself from all accumulated knowledge of life, which belongs to the memory, before he can experience REALITY
When man is free from his own mind he will begin to represent that empty space that is the source of all creation in this world.
When a man no longer identifies himself with his own thoughts he begins a peaceful revolution in this world.
We are not creators of nature but we can nurture and protect it if we can understand its laws.
Man must search for TRUTH only within himself. A man who follows someone else or blindly follows a organization is no longer following TRUTH
It is more important to understand why we must communicate than to know what we must communicate. We must be intelligent enough to handle difficult subjects about life openly and truthfully.
Religions which do not provide the right environment for man to think, feel, understand and act on his own can breed only SINNERS in this world.
Can a man just go about living his life and doing his work intelligently not to prove he is better than anybody else.
Only those who give up their comfort-zone can see the larger picture. THE KINGDOM OF GOD belongs to them.
Truth cannot be divided as mine or thine, otherwise, it will fail to establish faith and openness in society.
Never take another man's wisdom as gospel, instead understand the uncertainties of life through ones own life experience.
Qureshi:
Words and hearts should be handled carefully, because, words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair.
Smile and Silence are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems. Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
A smart statement for changing lives "Never raise your voice....just improve the quality of your argument."
Look forward to some responses to my posts! Hope you enjoy reading what I thump out on my laptop.
John Chakkola
The higher mind is abstract and acts without intention.The concrete mind conditioned by time always acts with intention.
Intellectualism belongs to the urban world. Man must prepare his mind to be inspired by nature itself instead of trying to be inspired by its teachings.
Psychological time is the gap between thought and action. When psychological time is removed from our conciousness we begin to be for ever living in the moment. Such a man is no longer a seeker.
"He must be out of his mind" is a phrase originally used to describe one who is divinely inspired. It meansthat the person is inspired by a power that is outside and beyond him.
A human being must rise beyond every form of peer pressure before his life itself becomes a prayer.
It is those who have not come to terms with their past who try to politicize all differences in the world.
Man must detach himself from all accumulated knowledge of life, which belongs to the memory, before he can experience REALITY
When man is free from his own mind he will begin to represent that empty space that is the source of all creation in this world.
When a man no longer identifies himself with his own thoughts he begins a peaceful revolution in this world.
We are not creators of nature but we can nurture and protect it if we can understand its laws.
Man must search for TRUTH only within himself. A man who follows someone else or blindly follows a organization is no longer following TRUTH
It is more important to understand why we must communicate than to know what we must communicate. We must be intelligent enough to handle difficult subjects about life openly and truthfully.
Religions which do not provide the right environment for man to think, feel, understand and act on his own can breed only SINNERS in this world.
Can a man just go about living his life and doing his work intelligently not to prove he is better than anybody else.
Only those who give up their comfort-zone can see the larger picture. THE KINGDOM OF GOD belongs to them.
Truth cannot be divided as mine or thine, otherwise, it will fail to establish faith and openness in society.
Never take another man's wisdom as gospel, instead understand the uncertainties of life through ones own life experience.
Qureshi:
Words and hearts should be handled carefully, because, words when spoken and hearts when broken are the hardest things to repair.
Smile and Silence are two powerful tools. Smile is the way to solve many problems. Silence is the way to avoid many problems.
A smart statement for changing lives "Never raise your voice....just improve the quality of your argument."
Look forward to some responses to my posts! Hope you enjoy reading what I thump out on my laptop.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Mega Middle:(
Prof L.P.Rajan called in yesterday to say he liked how I described myself. He also felt it was reasonably accurate description of me. My very large middle ( not the edit page one... part of the body!) is what you will notice first so I need to add " with a mega middle" to my description. Why so many "m's" ? maybe the child in me...
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Being Indian
That's the title of a book in my sons bookcase. Waded through some chapters. The one on relationship with power and the powerful is a must read for every Indian and those who want to deal with Indians. Suddenly I realized why I don't seem to Fit! When you want to write about the psyche of a diverse nation generalizations are bound to happen still, that India is one nation. gets confirmed when you read this book. I know I need to get hold of sudhir kakkar on the same topic, could not find it in a nearby book store so I dont know for now.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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Spring Cleaning
Yes, next week will be a good time to visit our otherwise shabby sty!
Spring cleaning helps remove clutter/cobwebs/normally unreachable filth in the physical space. It does just the opposite in our minds I discovered. Everything cleaned had a association to an event, period in time, person, memory etc. What to remove or add into to the showcase was an exercise in aesthetics balanced with family members emotional needs and attachment to things. I have now discovered among other things 3 cameras including a digital one all in good working order and have no idea how to deal with them. Last week I gave away a large Hanuman idol that some christian colleagues of my wife had given her with all good intent. Now, I still have some more idols of gods that we are unable to accomodate in the small nook we have for prayer. How can we spring clean the mind? I wish I knew. I can live comfortably in my home with just the regular cleaning, however, my life would change for much better if I could spring clean the mind and remove all the baggage that failures, hurt, memories miserable etc have created in my mind leaving it clean with all the right stuff like happy memories of successes, love and times of joy. Meditation may come close to a solution?? I dont know yet
Spring cleaning helps remove clutter/cobwebs/normally unreachable filth in the physical space. It does just the opposite in our minds I discovered. Everything cleaned had a association to an event, period in time, person, memory etc. What to remove or add into to the showcase was an exercise in aesthetics balanced with family members emotional needs and attachment to things. I have now discovered among other things 3 cameras including a digital one all in good working order and have no idea how to deal with them. Last week I gave away a large Hanuman idol that some christian colleagues of my wife had given her with all good intent. Now, I still have some more idols of gods that we are unable to accomodate in the small nook we have for prayer. How can we spring clean the mind? I wish I knew. I can live comfortably in my home with just the regular cleaning, however, my life would change for much better if I could spring clean the mind and remove all the baggage that failures, hurt, memories miserable etc have created in my mind leaving it clean with all the right stuff like happy memories of successes, love and times of joy. Meditation may come close to a solution?? I dont know yet
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
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matter of the heart
About my heart attack will need another post which I will try after gaining some more blogging experience. Expressing emotions will take a little more practice.
Everyday I read interesting stuff about taking care of the heart. Some of this I can swear by and other things are based on published reports and I have not the perseverance/tenacity to make a habit.
1. Include a cup of green leafy vegetables in your diet everyday.This helps if you are dieting and even otherwise
2. Red wine on regular basis reduces inflammation the main cause of heart trouble
3. Weights are more important than endurance/cardio.....never miss the weights session. Regular exercise is a must
4.10% reduction in weight can make a significant difference to health
5. Medicines can be reduced, cannot be done away with for life, Since everyone of them has side effects including causing diabetes in the medium term, remember it is a trade off and hopefully the right one. Taking tablets is essential but do not get paranoid if you miss a dose once in 3 months
6.It is a rich mans disease and can leave you very poor. Planning finance for regular check ups, medicines, surgery/surgeries is a must. I missed a insurance premium payment by 7 days and the whole thing went kaput. Make sure you have continuous valid insurance for many many years
7. I found meditation, relaxing music/sleep music helps a lot
8.Relax and enjoy life, I am not perfect however I am willing to forgive my mistakes and enjoy my imperfections
9. I do not have a gig to write a list of 10... I could remember 8 things while watching Indian Idol and thumping away and hope this makes some sense to you
Everyday I read interesting stuff about taking care of the heart. Some of this I can swear by and other things are based on published reports and I have not the perseverance/tenacity to make a habit.
1. Include a cup of green leafy vegetables in your diet everyday.This helps if you are dieting and even otherwise
2. Red wine on regular basis reduces inflammation the main cause of heart trouble
3. Weights are more important than endurance/cardio.....never miss the weights session. Regular exercise is a must
4.10% reduction in weight can make a significant difference to health
5. Medicines can be reduced, cannot be done away with for life, Since everyone of them has side effects including causing diabetes in the medium term, remember it is a trade off and hopefully the right one. Taking tablets is essential but do not get paranoid if you miss a dose once in 3 months
6.It is a rich mans disease and can leave you very poor. Planning finance for regular check ups, medicines, surgery/surgeries is a must. I missed a insurance premium payment by 7 days and the whole thing went kaput. Make sure you have continuous valid insurance for many many years
7. I found meditation, relaxing music/sleep music helps a lot
8.Relax and enjoy life, I am not perfect however I am willing to forgive my mistakes and enjoy my imperfections
9. I do not have a gig to write a list of 10... I could remember 8 things while watching Indian Idol and thumping away and hope this makes some sense to you
Monday, August 2, 2010
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The name for this blog
The title will not surprise those who have known my roller coaster career ride. I plan to write about my experiences and opinions on the general and the mundane. My inability to be subservient to individuals when I want to submit to causes/organizations, not voice an opinion when I have a strong one, and expecting acknowledgement for demonstrated results when someone more powerful walks away with all the credit are just some of the many reasons I've had to taste a variety of jobs and organizations. My wife (maybe understandably so!) will crib forever that I did not have career like her banker sister who completes 30yrs in the same organization next month. The lack of a retirement nest that is reasonable (what is..I wonder) still eludes me at 50. To borrow an expression from gulf returnee and colleague saiprasad ' I want to live rich not die rich' thats impractical and foolish is what I am sure you are thinking if you have read so far. Anyway, i am working towards being a footloose freelancer, not bound by anything..no no..surely not renouncing anything at all!! Savouring life without the chains of employment is a desire. You can watch this space to see if I am movng in that direction
Saturday, July 31, 2010
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