Number of words: 929 Five years ago, Kevin Carey predicted the end of college as we know it. He argued that colleges operate under an incentive structure and institutional logic that is unsustainable. The quest for prestige and the pressure to expand programs, services and research drive the cost of higher education ever higher, while … Read more

One night, 18-year-old Ritesh Agarwal was locked out of his apartment in Delhi. It was an unfortunate minor incident that was to change his life. Forced to check into a hotel he found himself in a situation he had already experienced several times while travelling in India. “The receptionist was sleeping,” he says. “Sockets did … Read more

Chetan Pal is an IIT Roorkee and IIM C alumnus, who has been taking an entrepreneurship case study every year. He was with us last week. Fortunately no one from the Bulls Eye team was available at the center – and Chetan ended up doing some kaizens which are worth sharing with you. He told … Read more

Yatin grew up in the small town of Kurudwadi, Solapur. His dad used to run a watch repair shop over there. After doing his schooling at Kurudwadi, Yatin shifted for Junior College to Solapur. He surprised the family by flunking his grade 12 exams. His math score was 14/100. Dad decided that his son needed … Read more

Vishal Purohit was a Bulls Eye student in 1997. He is a BE in Comp. Sc from DY Patil College, Pune. He is now Chief Executive Officer at Wooqer. He is also an Angel Investor. He was the founder of GarageAgain Ventures and CoreObjects prior to bootstrapping Wooqer. Wooqer is a California registered company with … Read more

Vinayak Joglekar was employed as an EDP (Electronic Data Processing) manager at Alfa Laval in the eighties, when he caught the entrepreneurial bug. Being a risk-averse manager from IIM Cal, he applied his first lean principle, by not quitting his job, but hiring an employee at Rs. 500 per month, to find out if people … Read more

The entrepreneur talks are usually tagged My Story sessions at TiE. Vinay started off by professing that it is our Story – so we heard about how he and his 3 partners together have built this company. Vinay’s dad was a marketing manager at Cummins India Ltd. Vinay has done his Compnter Science engineering. His … Read more

Vijay joined Xytel after his 7 year stint at Vigyan Ashram. Xytel had a JV with Powergas for making pilot plants. The company got taken over by a competitor in 2005, which is when Vijay decided to leave – and set up Texol with a few of his old colleagues. He had a house in … Read more

Venkatesh is a finance guy. He spent the first 15 years of his life as a bean counter in a financial services compaby – from 1989 to 2004. From then on the journey has been from seagull to eagle. What I liked about his talk was that he would keep on signaling the audience to … Read more

Vasu is a first generation entrepreneur. He did his civil engg from COEP – as it was the easiest to get in. Joined corporate life immediately thereafter. When after 7 years of work, he had accumulated enough capital, he decided to buy an apartment. He found the building quality extremely shoddy, the builder attitudes to … Read more