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Ugenie launches textbooks
We just launched textbooks on Ugenie.
Somehow, textbooks seem to fit in very well with a lot of things that we at Ugenie believe in.
1. People like buying them together - 3 to 6 of them at a time. Perfect candidates for our bundling algorithms.
2. Students buying textbooks are extremely price conscious, and we hope they will appreciate our real-time ( Read more... ) -
About people, work & organizations
As promised here:
My observations on people & organizations
They might be skewed towards ideas for creating a good business & a good organization - something I want to achieve sometime soon.
Also, I am in the middle of Maverick - a book that talks of a very different approach to build an organization - a democratic way.. which I am loving ( Read more... ) -
Painful truth
Got a mail from chauhan with a link to an article The last days of an IIM professor
Its very saddening.
More so, because the author is CEO of 1 of the few successful Internet companies in India. -
TimePass for the day - http://likebetter.com/
http://likebetter.com/ asks you to pick 1 out of 2 images that you like better & after some such rounds, it creates a little brain profile for you ( Read more... ) -
A good puzzle
http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/hacker/1.html
I got stuck at 13
Let me know if you cross that.
Update: SOlved it. Some spoilers in comments. -
Ugenie is live!!
Ugenie today came out of a closed alpha & moved to a public beta.
I am all excited & now looking forward to user feedback, to learn what we are doing well & what we need to improve.
There have been a few reports about us.
GigaOm spoke about us a few days back.
Kamla Bhatt has a podcast with a detailed interview with Harish(our co-founder & ( Read more... ) -
A post about what I want to post about
There are so many things that I want to write about & this time laziness is not the excuse as these are things I am very passionate about ( Read more... ) -
Coolness can make you money!
Threadless is one of the coolest site I have seen in a long time.
And apparently they do make a lot of money.
Some of the tees are just awesome..
You can earn 200 bucks for coming up with a good line for a tee.
The idea of photographing real users with tees .. takes shopping innovation to the next level.
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Ugenie Alpha launched!
Its been just about 3 months, since we started off ( Read more... ) -
state of law
On a day when the Delhi High court passed a verdict on the Priyanka Matoo case I dont know whether to feel happy about "finally justice was done" or sad about the fact that justice took 10 years ( Read more... )