Articles categorized as "Editors Note"
A culture of entrepreneurship
Feb 01, 2011
Silicon Valley is to an entrepreneur what the Lord’s cricket ground is to a budding cricketer. The Bay Area, with its steep hills, windy roads and old-style streetcars, has given the world some of the world’s leading
Ride the cloud
Jan 01, 2011
Over the last two months, I have had over 10 people discuss with me their ‘big’ idea in the cloud computing space. Most of these were ideas to make some ‘process’ more efficient with the use of software
It’s all about belief
Dec 01, 2010
Chief Belief Officer (CBO). That title really intrigued us. So did the role! So we asked Devdutt Pattanaik, the chief belief officer of Future Group (FG), what the job title precisely meant? And what does he exactly do? In return
One year down, many more to come
Nov 01, 2010
“I loved the to-do lists in the e-commerce edition,” emails one early-stage entrepreneur. “Reading the Starting Up section is exciting,” says another. Since launching The Smart CEO in October 2009, we have received several such e-mails
The Online Bazaar
Oct 01, 2010
Stefana Broadbent, a cognitive scientist who has closely observed and analysed people’s use of technology, argues in her talk at Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) 2009, that the World Wide Web has transformed relationships and closeness between people – a concept
Studentpreneurs
Sep 01, 2010
What’s common among Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison, apart from them being multi-billionaires? Okay, let’s add a new generation name – Mark Zuckerberg – to that list
What’s age got to do with it?
Aug 01, 2010
“It’s either now or never.” How often have we heard this phrase from early stage entrepreneurs? Several young professionals take the plunge early and startup, confident and ready to pick up skills on the job to make their ventures
IT Services 2.0
Jul 01, 2010
Since launching The Smart CEO in October 2009, we consciously stayed away from featuring the CEO of a large company on the cover. Our covers focused on entrepreneurship development and lessons we could share with managers and decision-makers on
The next generation of microfinance
Jun 01, 2010
Ever heard of the Honey Bee Network? It’s a brilliant organization dedicated to collecting and spreading information about grassroot-level innovation happening in the remotest of locations in India and around the world
Learn India, Learn
May 01, 2010
teve Jobs and Bill Gates, two revolutionaries who have transformed the world, never completed college. When Jobs was invited to make the commencement speech at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, he said, “This is the closest I have ever
