vinay.writes

lines from a talk by Subroto Bagchi

2009-11-10T18:52:00.000-08:00

Subroto Bagchi is a co-founder of Mindtree and an author of 3 very successful books. I had the chance to attend his talk on 'Entrepreneurship'.This is an excerpt from the talk he gave for students at the London Business School on 9^th Nov 2009.

Coming back from it, I think the talk and particularly the Q & A session that followed were very insightful and laced with good practical examples. Mr Bagchi is a lively speaker and I would recommend that you hear him. He makes his point in a very simple and light way.

I loved the session and some lines have made me think, I have tried to jot them down.

P.S. This is my interpretation of what Mr. Subroto said. These may not be his exact words.

1. Entrepreneurs love to make money. This is a basic – they dream big, take risks to change things because they want to gain big, make big money.

2. You can only give money, once you have money. Wealth is regenerative.

3. Don’t jump into entrepreneurship, make yourself safe and then try to make wealth for others. but then again don't wait too long to take the risk and start on your own.

4. choose the right VC, choose the right colour of money. It is a VC's job to pester you, drive you to get cashflow, make profits asap and it is your job to push back and make sure that you are doing the right things, in a sustainable way and have a long term vision. Ultimately, you are the owner, negotiate ifg you have to. But, yes taking VC funding does change the company in many ways.

5. The biggest satisfaction is that ' people find our enterprise safe’. In MindTree employees feel safe - they are getting married having babies :)

6. It will take nearly the same amount of work to be a CXO v.s. opening your own enterprise ( and making it successful). For those who stay in corporate careers and rise the ladder – the underlying trait of all successful corporate executives is – that they run the company you work for in the same manner they would if they owned it. Make your employees have a sense of ownership towards the company.

7. Entrepreneurship is very akin to a sexual act. Mostly, you can’t start a company when you are 60 and going to get your prostrate checked J You need passion for starting and nurturing an enterprise. You have this passion when you are young. So make sure you don’t wait too much start > start early.

8. We have to make entrepreneurship cool. It is OK to taking risks and fail. When you are young you have nothing to lose. You can always go back into a job. If you love making money, entrepreneurship is the way. Big gains come with big risks.

Now thing to do: I am going to get the book he wrote on Entrepreneurs,

http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Entrepreneur-Golden-Success/dp/0670999180

Subroto also recommended reading ‘The Fifth Discipline’

http://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Organization/dp/0385260954

Just realized it is 3:00 am now. Have to sleep.

Thanks for visiting.

cheers

Vinay

Decision making

2008-11-06T09:41:00.001-08:00

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Business strategy by design

2008-11-06T09:40:00.003-08:00

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Design with vision

2008-11-06T09:40:00.001-08:00

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business plan

2008-11-04T17:02:00.001-08:00

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business plan for VC

2008-11-04T17:01:00.001-08:00

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design with a vision

2008-11-04T16:57:00.001-08:00

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seduction - lots of interface examples

2008-11-01T22:57:00.001-07:00

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eye candy is business requirement

2008-10-25T09:05:00.001-07:00

Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement

From: stephenpa, 11 months ago

Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement

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Visual design is more than styling. It is function. And not only because it communicates, but also because it makes us feel. And between feeling and communication, people find things easier to use.

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Destroy the web 2.0 look

2008-10-25T09:02:00.001-07:00

FOWD November 2007

From: elliotjaystocks, 11 months ago

FOWD November 2007

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'Destroy The Web 2.0 Look': a presentation by Elliot Jay Stocks at Future of Web Design, November 2007

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Social interaction design -- Digg

2008-10-25T08:51:00.001-07:00

Designing for Interaction

From: dburka, 1 month ago

Designing for Interaction

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Creating a social site sounds great until you get around to actually designing that ambiguous ‘social’ part that’s central to its success. Enabling and encouraging your community to participate is a complex challenge that only gets more sophisticated as the populace on your site grows. In many critical areas, you’ll come up against the curious juxtapositions of designing social interactions. Encouraging positive activities while discouraging negative behaviors, satisfying power users while catering to lurkers, ensuring privacy while fostering openness, and creating pathways while remaining open to unexpected developments, are just some of the hurdles you’re likely to face as you design your site.

Using case studies from Digg, Pownce, and other social communities, we’ll examine how to balance these and other concerns from a user interface design perspective. In particular, mistakes will be analyzed and success stories will be dissected to help explain how successful social interactions can be created and pitfalls can be avoided.

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user research

2008-02-21T21:20:00.001-08:00

DIY User Research (LondonBarCamp3)

From: leisa, 2 months ago

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a rough and ready guide to doing your own user research (without once saying 'it depends')

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nokia - must see maybe qualcomm should do this too

2007-12-26T11:58:00.001-08:00

Nokia brand & design priorities

From: whatidiscover, 9 months ago

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Nokia brand & design priorities
Keith Pardy & Alastair Curtis
Nokia Capital Markets Day 2006
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/10/107224/Keith_Pardy_Alastair_Curtis_CMD2006.pdf

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Why did I leave Kanbay User Experience Practice...

2007-11-02T04:40:00.000-07:00

Edited from sandy's

So, why I left Earlier company’s UX group?
(Disclaimer: these are my personal views)

There are many things which UX MANAGEMENT needs to look upon and rethink. And SOME OF THESE REASONS made me quit.

UX analysts, interaction designers are not WEB DEVELOPERS, GRAPHIC DESIGNERS, HTML CODERS, UI BUG FIXERS OR JS EXPERTS.
Client is certainly not a King and UX ANALYSTS ARE NOT THEIR SLAVES. Which I thing onsite coordinators and offshore managers should understand. DONOT FEAR YOUR CLIENT. Rather be open and frank. DON’T LIE YOUR CLIENT.
HIRE RIGHT CANDIDATES and for right jobs. Don’t get IITians and Nidians, HFI certified to make HTML mocks ups. You don’t have projects for this people with this background. (Creating html mocks is not interaction design or interface design.)
OPEN UP the methodology diagrams which is “TRADE MARKED” (so called backbone of the UX) and see which the activities are followed so far and in which projects. Is this methodology followed????????
“TRANSPARENCY” in Management, projects, work, rating members.
“SHARE” the presentations with UX team members. Let them know which clients, what projects, who did it. (two years of my employment I didn’t see any of these, hope others will see it sooner or later)
cultivate good “WORK ETHICS”
Identify who is good at work; DON’T JUST GET CARRIED AWAY WITH IMPRESSIVE RESUME. Test each team member’s strength, encourage the team members at the same time rate their Critical success factor based on their work/performance.
Stop measuring your group success with just numbers/revenue. Revenue is not what your team wants, give them challenge.
Lastly, challenge people, give them wicked design problems not wicked UI bugs and WORK on the above suggestions.

Few things which are unique about earlier UX group, which makes team members to enjoy their work

Diverse team, yet very experienced team, ( atleast few whom I have worked with)
Good vision to take the group (sadly I saw it only PPT)
Only group who has foreseen the market for RIA and invested heavily on RIA (this is one of the best thing done so far, I guess management have done fairly good in hiring right people for this group atleast.)
Great onsite opportunities.

BTW things which I miss the most are “Tapri” and all the jhingoors from pune team.

Taken from Sandy, http://thinkofthings.com/blog/?p=48

Who is more important the strategist or the builder/developer ?

2007-10-25T15:33:00.000-07:00

My musings :

Having studied design in a highly technical environment like IIT.
(Aka what qualcomm job post calls the hostile, engineering types )

I was always faced with the question :

for a successful product , who is more important the artist or the engineer ?
This debate later changed to : who, or more aptly put, what function is more important/ critical to the success of a product ?

Is it business/strategy , is it design or is it engineering, is it visual or art ?

I tried to explain and I believe that none of these is more or less important. Each of them have to come together in a perfect sublime way.
In fact they are all the same but they look different in the traditional sense of things.

As I think more about them, and merge them with things I learnt from my professional life .
I find myself making some quotes that are my effort to show what I believe in :
I truly believe in all of these . Do let me know what you think

________________

"good design is good business" - TJ watson

“real artists ship” – Steve Jobs

I believe in all 3 of these

"design that doesn't sell is art"

“all design is art”

“at the end of the day, creating good software is still an art”

- vinay

“looks good, works well " – Bill scott, YUI library and AJAX evangelist at Yahoo

“looks good, works well & sells like hot cakes” - vinay

“all art & design is factorised maths” – vinay

“ for better experiences and products, art , science & commerce have to sleep together” - vinay

Design is certainly art. Its a higher form of art .design is art with a specific purpose, utility, or intention in mind… ( from a random post )

If you did read till here , you might want to know what sources/ inspires my comments.

Find them here

Have a look at these two very well written posts ( do read all the comments ) :

http://bokardo.com/archives/five-principles-to-design-by/

http://jehiah.cz/archive/design-is-not-art

http://blog.simplyhired.com/talent-seekers/archives/2006/11/29/recruiting-in-the-creative-age-7.php

social IxD

2007-10-05T09:06:00.001-07:00

What Is Social Interaction Design?

From: gravity7, 1 week ago

Introduction to social interaction design, a design approach to social media and social software

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facebook analysis

2007-10-05T08:09:00.001-07:00

Facebook Analysis and Study

From: misteroo, 18 hours ago

by FaberNovel

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shift happens

2007-09-29T09:21:00.003-07:00

Shift Happens

From: jbrenman, 6 months ago

This is a stylization of a slideshow originally created by Karl Fisch, examining globalization and America’s future in the 21st century. It is designed to stand alone, without having to be presented in person. Enjoy!

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social media

2007-09-29T09:21:00.001-07:00

Power Of Social Media

From: montymetzger, 3 months ago

This is a presentation made by Monty Metzger presented in May 2007 at the Media Meeting Mannheim, Germany.

Layout and Content inspired by "Shift Happens" (http://www.slideshare.net/jbrenman/shift-happens-33834)

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gr8 one ..must read

2007-09-22T06:17:00.001-07:00

User Generated Communities Usability

From: pecus, 5 months ago

This was my presentation for the 3rd Usability Forum in Portugal, the idea was to mix usability with online community design, and try to determine the usability guidelines for the user generated communities online.

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nice one

2007-09-22T06:14:00.007-07:00

How Not To Get Noticed

From: edanzico, 1 month ago

We all have ideas about the design and usability of WordPress, but what happens when actual testing gets applied to the problem. A presentation from WordCamp 2007 shows Happy Cog's work on the information architecture and usability for WordPress.

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slideshare usability

2007-09-22T06:14:00.005-07:00

SlideShare Usability Review 1 : Sign Up

From: Chris.McEvoy, 10 months ago

A usability review of the sign up process in SlideShare. A few simple mistakes spoil an otherwise excellent user experience.

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selling usability

2007-09-22T06:14:00.003-07:00

Selling usability

From: DaveEllender, 3 months ago

Stuart Church (pure usability), Dave Ellender (cxpartners) - selected slides from a discussion at Bristol Usability Group

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agile

2007-09-22T06:14:00.001-07:00

Agile and Usability - Have you got Usagility?

From: Chris.McEvoy, 7 months ago

What happens if you try and apply some of the lessons from the agile world into the usability world.

Have you got Usagility?

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developing / engineering the user interface

2007-09-19T04:33:00.001-07:00

Developing a Great User Interface

From: seankane, 7 months ago

Presentation from the UIE Web Application Summit

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social IA

2007-09-19T04:30:00.001-07:00

Social Information Architecture Workshop

From: gsmith, 6 months ago

My presentation for the Social IA Workshop at the IA Summit (March 22, 2007)

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pleasurable interfaces ( moving beyond tasks and usability)

2007-09-19T04:26:00.001-07:00

Creating Pleasurable Interfaces: Getting From Tasks to Experiences

From: stephenpa, 6 months ago

My presentation at Refresh 06

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adaptive interfaces

2007-09-19T04:25:00.003-07:00

The Conversation Gets Interesting: Creating the Adaptive Interface

From: stephenpa, 5 months ago

With the proliferation of rich Internet applications and interactions more closely aligned with how people think, we face some interesting challenges:

* Do we design for one common audience and common tasks, or tailor applications around specific audiences and their unique activities?
* How do we resolve the tension between creating simple applications that ‘do less’ and the demand for new features that some people really do need?
* As we move beyond usability to create desirable interfaces, how do we handle a subjective domain like emotions?

These types of challenges could all be addressed by creating a truly ‘adaptive' interface. More than removing unused menu options or collaborative filtering, this would include functionality that is revealed over time as well as interface elements that change based on usage. Imagine the web-based email client that begins offering three forms fields for attachments instead of the default one, because it 'noticed' that you frequently upload more than one file. Or the navigation menu that disappears because it is not relevant to the task at hand. Sound scary? Look at the world of game design, where inconsistency has never been an issue and where users learn new functions over time, as needed. In the same ways that ads are becoming more targeted around context and behavior, we can also create interfaces that respond, suggest, or change based on actual usage data.

While much of this is still speculative, we'll explore some concrete examples of how such ideas have already been used, and other instances where they could be used. We'll also take a brief look at what technologies might support these interactions, as well as some of the rules engines that might make this possible. And, to ground this in the past, we'll at some existing navigational theories and research that might support this argument for an interface that is truly conversational and context aware.

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viral recruiting : UX positioning

2007-09-19T04:25:00.001-07:00

7 User Experience Lessons from the iPhone (Introducing UX)

From: stephenpa, 2 months ago

internal presentation, given in mid January 2007, to introduce our newly formed user experience group to the development team...

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visual thinking

2007-09-19T04:24:00.001-07:00

An Introduction to Visual Thinking

From: rycoleman, 6 months ago

Presentation from VizThink1 in Toronto, ON - February 27 2007

(cc) Non-comm Share-alike Attribution: (Ryan Coleman - http://fitrans.blogspot.com)

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test results

2007-09-19T04:18:00.001-07:00

Test results

From: jonbegi, 7 months ago

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Insights

2007-09-19T04:11:00.003-07:00

Insights

From: jonbegi, 7 months ago

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contextual inquiry

2007-09-19T04:11:00.001-07:00

Context research results

From: jonbegi, 7 months ago

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policies 2.0

2007-09-19T04:10:00.003-07:00

Policies 2.0: Rules for the Social Web

From: teach42, 6 months ago

This presentation is posted with permission by Doug Johnson who created it. It was presented on March 21st as part of the EdTechConnect series of webinars the Discovery Educator Network (DEN). For more information about Doug Johnson, visit doug-johnson.com. For more information about the DEN, visit DiscoveryEducatorNetwork.com

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innovative problem solving

2007-09-19T04:10:00.001-07:00

Innovative Problem Solving Guide

From: xmergnc, 4 months ago

Guide to solving problems innovatively

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contetual inquiry toolkit

2007-09-19T04:09:00.001-07:00

Gaining insight into unfamiliar contexts

From: jonbegi, 7 months ago

This is my graduation project in Philips Design. A toolbox to give insight into unfamiliar contexts. With the specific focus of Indian Rural healthcare. Developed for Philips Medical Systems.

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design for social sharing

2007-09-19T03:53:00.003-07:00

Designing for social sharing

From: jboutelle, 12 months ago

Rashmi's talk at Webvisions on social sharing

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social software

2007-09-19T03:53:00.001-07:00

Social Software and Personal Learning Environments

From: terrya, 6 months ago

This presentation, in slightly modified forms, was presented by myself to education audiences in Canada, Israel, Norway and the UK in spring 2007. See my blog at terrya.edublogs.org for more details

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designing for RIA / AJAX (design patterns)

2007-09-19T03:50:00.001-07:00

Designing For Ajax

From: billwscott, 8 months ago

Given for Easy7 SIGCHI-SI in Bangalore 1/5/2007

With the advent of Ajax, new patterns of interaction have emerged on the Web. Bill Scott provides insight on how to best take advantage of the power of Ajax technology for designing a great user experience through a series of best practices, summarized as eight key principles. Each principle and its nuances are illustrated in detail with real world examples and counter-examples from both inside and outside Yahoo!

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beyond usability

2007-09-19T03:48:00.003-07:00

Beyond Usability

From: cwodtke, 3 months ago

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emotion and HCI

2007-09-19T03:48:00.001-07:00

Emotion, Arousal, Attention and Flow: Chaining Emotional States to Improve Human Computer Interaction

From: trevor.vangorp, 5 months ago

An overview of how designing for emotion relates to UX and flow, how the appearance and interaction of products communicate a personality to the user, and how emotions can be "chained" to enhance persuasion and influence behaviour.

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social design

2007-09-19T03:47:00.001-07:00

Psychology Of Social Design

From: bokardo, 4 weeks ago

This is the talk that I gave at UXWeek 2007 in Washington, DC.

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mobile social networks

2007-09-19T03:42:00.001-07:00

070726 Mobile Social Networking Stephen Johnston

From: sdbj, 1 month ago

Presentation to Mobile Social Networking Conference, San Francisco by Stephen Johnston, 26 July 2007

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googleplex

2007-09-19T03:39:00.001-07:00

Life at Googleplex

From: thescribblepad, 4 months ago

What Life is like inside the Googleplex

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apply social media to your company

2007-09-06T01:07:00.001-07:00

Social Media - Apply it to your Company Website

From: natalierebot, 2 months ago

Social Media for Corporations - Basics and Benefits of some of the popular Social Media tools out there (Digg, Del.icio.us, Wiki's, Odea, etc)

business aspects of social media

2007-09-06T01:04:00.001-07:00

Business aspects of social software and collaboration

From: edbrill, 9 months ago

Web 2.0, social software, blogs, wikis, instant messaging. New tools and new ways of approaching communication and coordination among customers, suppliers, and partners. Software to help companies share information has been around for more than 15 years. How do the new tools intersect with existing ones? How can you best leverage new technologies for faster time-to-market and increased customer satisfaction? What is the role of security in an increasingly open supply-chain communication system? We'll examine these questions and talk about current and future technologies and trends.

web 2.0 mashups and inquiry based learning

2007-09-04T08:16:00.001-07:00

inquiry based learning with Web2.0

From: paulreid, 1 week ago

Empowering inquiry based learning with Web2.0 mash-ups.
Presentation for ECAWA Conference 2007.
'Web 2.0' and the new models of communication and research that it enables means teachers and students can embed and automate the inquiry based learning process. Instant messaging, blogging, podcasting, Skype, wikis, RSS are but some tools available in the 'participatory social web' that allow students to become become knowledge creators and teachers to become facilitators. And the impact that this has on education could be enormous.

what is design ?

2007-09-04T08:14:00.003-07:00

What is Design

From: seilamgoh, 4 months ago

Based on Tom Peter's book "Design"

Social Web

2007-09-04T08:14:00.001-07:00

Social Web Application Design

From: lukew, 3 months ago

Social Web Application Design. In particular: Comparison of how we think of “community” applications today vs. five years ago, Definitions of what and who defines social software, Overview of the interaction elements commonly found in social Web applications, Discussion about the pros and cons of enabling community features within products, Outline of best practices for designing social software (culled from my experiences working on products for eBay, Yahoo!, and more).

social IA

2007-09-04T08:11:00.003-07:00

Social Information Architecture

From: gsmith, 11 months ago

My presentation from Webvisions '06.

social information architecture

2007-09-04T08:11:00.001-07:00

Social Information Architecture Workshop

From: gsmith, 5 months ago

My presentation for the Social IA Workshop at the IA Summit (March 22, 2007)

social media + music

2007-09-04T08:10:00.001-07:00

Lessons from Building world's largest social music platform

From: coolstuff, 5 months ago

Talk by Matt Ogle from Last.fm at FOWA

Social media

2007-09-04T08:08:00.001-07:00

Social Media

From: wah17, 5 months ago

A Literature Review on Social Media. A compilation of social media thoughts from the experts point of view. Produced by Alex Wong from Charles ... less Sturt Uni, Australia. Can be contacted via email wah17@yahoo.com

no matter what you do , no matter where you are design matters !

2007-08-31T02:48:00.000-07:00

design,business and innovation

social computing, social networks

mobile interaction design

design models

business models

design methods

design and commercial software lifecycles

design and organizations, sell design in your organization

new product areas

engineering design

interesting companies

debates