Muses of Murari

I read an interesting TOI article today. It talks about how Indian businessmen and other businessmen around the world finding cultivable lands in countries like Ethiopia, Namibia, Argentina and growing oil seeds and other commodities to help their native countries in cases of shortages and also making a new wave of export businesses. Fascinating to [...]

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Today, I had a chance to meet an entrepreneur, who until recently was my supervisor-like. He recently bootstrapped a book and toy lending venture, BrainVilla. This start up is kinda unique one, in the sense, it not only rents & sells books, which other companies like librarywala.com, flipkart.com does, but also rents toys. Interestingly, he [...]

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This book is perfect for business section in any library or book shop. And I think there are some personal take-aways also packaged in. This book is basically about how some of the good companies became great companies. This book is output of research done by Jim Collins and his team studying 11 companies, why [...]

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I think, this book has a targeted segment – to those who have burning desire to make a mark all by oneself. This book is collection of inspiring experiences of 25 IIM A alumni who took road less traveled- Entrepreneurship and succeeded/succeeding in their ventures. All the 25 stories runs into many a common trait [...]

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When I first picked up this book in Landmark, Chennai, I am intrigued by the fact that its blurb says something interesting, but there are few number of praises or reviews on the book. In fact, I found only one praise on its cover page! I made a decision to buy. I read it. I [...]

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Now a days, I am reading more and more, non-fiction books. Now, this book, I have selected, when I dropped in Landmark, talks on niche markets, that are served well by Internet, which otherwise, could not be accessed well. The title of the book or its blurb or the praise on the book covers, did [...]

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