There’s been some brouhaha about a new feature at Cleartrip which tells you how many seats are left (at the mentioned price) when you search for tickets. A post on moocube called “The Cleartrip Hurry Algorithm” started doing the rounds of the Indian web, with the author accusing Cleartrip of trying to make people “hurry” [...]

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I write at Yahoo: The Right Sort Of Company “Good Morning, Sehgal sa’ab”. It wasn’t a reference to Mr. Sehgal’s car. “Sa’ab” was short for Sahib, the equivalent of “boss” or “sir”. In any case, Mr. Sehgal had a Honda. “Hello, Sudhir. Good to see you after all this time. Don’t tell me you have [...]

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For a person that writes on money, and who doesn’t really have “regular” income, I’m a strange guy. I talk about how you should save for retirement. I build large excel sheets, that when you click a button, tell you exactly how much you need to save so you retire. I tell people to save [...]

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[This is going to be a different kind of post – about startups] Satish Dharmaraj says Founders of startups must take up the post of Chief Executive, because they can best communicate the culture and vision, raise money or scale/exit the business. …

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Talking to Nikhil Pahwa on the phone about financial shenanigans and a recent acquisition of Burrp! (a restaurant review site as I know it) and some subsequent research yielded a tidbit that, it seems, was a useful piece of information. Nikhil wrote ab…

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