Greetings,

I’ve written a small paper to reflect how the internet has changed due to Google’s Search innovation and how as internet users we’re experiencing the cyberspace in a whole new way. Some very interesting numbers are included in this analysis.

Google - Internet Experience Innovator

Overview

Started ten years ago, Google now is the pioneer in creating sustainable, stable internet applications that one day hopes to change our perception and transform us from the personal desktop computer to an online desktop experience.

Hi there,

Today I decided to post a sample work I’ve done for one of my classes - Marketing Technology Products (a part of the Managing a Technology Intensive Enterprise MBA Track).

In this paper, I try to come up with a marketing plan for the ‘Surface’ product (by Microsoft), it’s potential usage, competition, marketing channel, customer profiling and market segmentation.

While very broad, these kind of exercises that were given to me by Professor Anirudh Dhebar helped me shape a very practical understanding of the marketing role in a technology firm. He gives you a very structured template to work with and a portfolio of tools to use when one needs to create the actual plan.

Hey,

So I haven’t written in a long time and that’s mainly due to me taking too many activities at a time. 

I am working(internship at an enterprise software - doing strategy and business development), studying (full-time MBA - last semester!) and trying to launch a venture (http://aiveogroup.com).

Aiveo is an open-source consulting company, we do two things:

1.) Optimize business processes

2.) Match open-source software to these processes and implement them

So a current challenge is to get more customers!
We are targeting small companies (0-50 employees) who need help with manageing their sales and marketing efforts.

Internet Entrepreneurship is a relatively new term that I have been hearing about for some time now. In an era where you could create your own internet service, attract visitors and create revenue by ads - entrepreneurship has become much easier than before. Writing facebook application, tweaking google search and writing a blog are examples of internet entrepreneurship.

In today’s post, we are privileged to have Rob Banagale, an internet entrepreneur and classmate, to write a little bit about writing an Iphone application. 

Negotiations - The art of  bargaining

We all do it. Whether with our boss when we ask for a raise, with our spouse when deciding where to spend the weekend (your parents or mine?) or with the realtor.

So we all have experience in it. Some of you might even think you’re good at it. But how can someone possibly know he’s a good negotiator? Is it going out of the negotiation with a good feeling? cutting the realtor price by 10%?

WARNING: This post may contain number crunching, financial definitions, formulas and excel sheet work.

Greetings!

Today we are going to discuss financial evaluation, which is a crucial skills to have when presenting a new business plan to a potential investor. Financial evaluation is the simply task of evaluating business opportunity (whether it is launching a new product, building a new office or even starting a company) in a $$$ point of view.

A couple of definitions before we start:

Howdy,

Managing a project is a complex task and I am far from perfecting the process. However, Managing several projects in the past gave some perspective on the challenges involved in the various tasks around creating the project, getting buy-in from stakeholders, identifying and managing risks etc.

For me, there are two big types of projects: top-down or matrix.

Top-down: You are the manager of a project. The project has tasks, deliverables, deadlines and resources. You are personally in charge on the resources (people, budget ETC).

A quick and unsual post on neck and back pain.

In the last couple of days I’ve been experiencing annonying neck and back pain. This was probably caused by pull-ups, bad matress or computer related work (answer=all of the above).

Since I found a great article about solving this neck and back pain - I really wanted to share it with you. The link is http://www.drbookspan.com/NeckPainArticle.html and it is simple yet practical advise.

–Gil

Hi there,

If you’re coming to the U.S. in a couple or months or so, you should definitely read the following article. This informal list of advice from was collected from many international students over the years. I hope it helps you as you transition to the U.S and to your college. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Things to take
1. Vaccines certificate from home (list of vaccinations taken) – so you don’t have to retake it here
2. A document of your driving insurance history(either from police at home or from your car insurance company) – so your car insurance will be cheap!

ideas

Throughout my childhood, every now and then my dad and I would have conversations about making the world a better place. Sometimes these conversations would take place on the beach, on a traffic jam or during Kiddush. I estimate that out of the 1000 conversations or so — 100 ideas were realistic.

My approach back then was:
1. if it’s such a good idea, how come no one has thought about it before
2. criticize everything
3. be realistic

Bad approach. Due to that approach, I missed out opportunities that later in my life would become extremely popular and create profitable companies, examples include: