Thought Bubbles

Sep 7, 2010

TiE Session on K-12 Segment - Quotes !

I recently attended a TiE Session "Unravelling the K-12 Segment - Opportunities and Challenges"
It was a very interesting sessions and broke some myths i had around the education sector
I will be drafting a detailed post soon, with a summary of the entire session

For now, i have listed an thought provoking & entertaining quotes from each of the three panelists

"Lets not start test preparation in the womb. It will not get them into IITs and IIMs"
- Ashish Rajpal, Founder, idiscoveri

"The middle class parent in India is paranoid and has stopped thinking"

"If you pick up a real problem and find atleast 30% solution to it, you will be more successful than people who are chasing a part of the billion dollar market. You will go beyond your wildest dreams of a successful entrepreneur"
Sridharan Rajagopalan, Founder, Eklavya Institute

"We entrepreneurs have a disease - an incredible and crazy optimism. Add to that a layer of hype. The hype begins when the industry potential appears in economic times as a billion dollar market"

"I am still such a sambar eating desi, dollar (USD) doesn't make any sense to me"
Satyanarayanan, Chairman, Career Launcher India

Look forward to a detailed post on the session !

Sep 6, 2010

Objectivism

When was the last time you witnessed some one who had great clarity of thoughts?
Watch a gut wrenching video interview of Ayn Rand that was shot in the 1950s

Sep 5, 2010

Feeling Inferior?

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"

Eleanor Roosevelt

Compare book prices in India

There is a search engine to search books and compare their prices from different online book stores
It is called the India Book Store

This might be of interest to people who would like to get the best price for their books and want to spend time in decision making

For me, I would directly go to flipkart and order books
They offer good discounts and their service is awesome !
I am undoubtedly a flipkart fan
They blew me away right at the first order !