13 Jan
Posted by Dipankar Subba as Entrepreneurism
The best thing about working for myself has been the ability to manage my own time and do the things that I want to do. I have been quite intrigued by Sports Psychology so I picked up 2 DVDs from the Singapore National Library - Becoming a Champion: An Athlete’s Guide to Building Self-Confidence and [...]
21 Jan
Posted by Dipankar Subba as Entrepreneurism
Yesterday, I attended BarCamp Singapore along with a friend, Rosalind. We met some great people and had loads of fun. Especially enjoyable was the HalfBaked.com session, which was sort of an ice-breaker where teams of 3 to 4 had to come up with a business plan in 15 odd minutes based on a few random [...]
14 Dec
Posted by Dipankar Subba as Entrepreneurism
We all love lists, don’t we? OK, I love lists and maybe it is just me but BusinessWeek released an interesting list of Asia’s Best Young Entrpreneurs and surprise surprise there is not even one Singaporean in the list. On the other hand, Hong Kong that is comparable to Singapore in many ways have three [...]
I attended a talk at SMU by Cory Ondrejka, CTO of Linden Labs, creators of the extremely popular (it is not a game) Second Life. It was an engaging and informative talk but as expected he had his biases. He tried to sell Second Life as a cheap way to venture into being an entrepreneur, [...]
27 Nov
Posted by Dipankar Subba as Entrepreneurism
ChangeThis is giving away Bootstrapper’s Bible by Seth Godin for free (the offer is for a limited period of two weeks, go grab it while you can).
I have read this book and sadly didn’t use much of the ideas which are mostly practical and sound. This led me to ponder, whether Singaporeans and PRs [...]