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  • fritz Says -> can it be done ?
    11:43 am on November 12, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    For the past couple of days there is only one question on my mind is it possible to build a company worth 1 billion dollar in 3 years yes 36 months now don’t ask me how I got the magic numbers of 1 billion or 3 years but I guess the reason for such crazy questions going in my mind are the number of interviews I see on TV of entrepreneurs and new generation of business leaders in the making taking over family run businesses in India after their studies saying that their targets are to take their family businesses past the 1 billion dollar mark and make the business more professionally managed and not family run.

    Hmm all this has certainly got me thinking is it possible to build a company in a small place like goa worth a billion dollars in 3 years well maybe it is but has it been done in goa not yet anyway I don’t think it has been done in india also yet but one place where it has been done is US and in a place like silicon valley anything is possible for example in recent history youtube.com was founded in February 2005 and in less then 3 years was sold to Google for more then a billion dollar in Google cash and stock.

    So the conclusion is if you target a global audience with your innovation then it is definitely possible to build a company worth a billion dollars in 3 years the vital factors to achieving the goal being innovation,usefulness and global audience but if you are building a small entity with focus on smaller geography then it is not possible unless maybe you start digging in your backyard and you strike oil or a diamond mine hahahahahaha :) as they say for striking it reach you don’t just require smart work but also a bit of luck :)

     
  • fritz Says -> Inspired by J. P. Morgan
    10:51 pm on October 4, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Normally at night when I channel surf when from one network to another till I settle on VH1 or something else which I find interesting the other night I was channel surfing and I landed up on the History channel and the one show that I love there is the Biographies well that night they were showing the biography of one Mr John Pierpont Morgan the only reason I stuck to watching the entire show was the fact that I had heard about Morgan Stanley and I knew that the Morgan in J. P. Morgan was somehow connected to that and since it is financial I thought I will find something interesting and interesting indeed it was.

    The fascinating part was how he built the 1st ever billion dollar company in the world by acquiring small steel companies and some big ones like Carnegie steel and then combining them to form the United States Steel Corporation In this deal what I found fascinating was the fact that when Mr Morgan went to meet the owner of Carnegie steel Mr Andrew Carnegie he was given on a piece of paper the sum that Mr Carnegie wanted for his firm on the piece of paper was the written the sum $480 Million and to this Mr Morgan said Done and that was it no due diligence, no evaluation, no lawyers, no power brokers that is plain old you tell me the price and I say yes or no the risk taking and the appetite of the Wild Wild West is not there in biz anymore just see the media circus around the Tata-Corrus deal and the arcelor-mittal deal the evaluations, market speculations etc etc where as the the biz deal between Mr Morgan and Mr Carnegie was between a buyer and a seller but in the modern world I guess this old fashion ways wont probably work. But then again Mr Morgan had another famous saying "If you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it" with this attitude I guess he tackled the biz world too.

    For anyone who wants to someday build a billion dollar enterprise Mr Morgan is the perfect role model during the rough days the sort of person who could twist the govt to their benefit and also predict the movement of the markets and also place wise bets over what will be successful.

    To know a bit about this amazing biz figure check out (this) but this has just the minimum the other details which were shown in the history channels episode of biography are not there like what is corsair pact etc

    The people who inspire me from the biz world are Bill Gates, Steve Job, Richard Branson and now Mr J. P. Morgan there will surely be more and more people added to this list as I explore the vast jungle of corporate biographies of people who build empires with vision and hard work and how it all began with a small dream and a small startup.

     
  • fritz Says -> gmail status for the day 30 sept 2007
    9:47 pm on September 30, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Its buddy time :)

    yes it is that time of the week where you put your feet up and relax an have a budweiser yep thats my buddy hmm looks like I have given a brilliant advertising campaign to a really good product to hit the indian markets after a long time :)

    Well there are so many other brands of beer am wondering when they will hit the indian shores yes if anyone is interested in launching their beer brands in india it will be good for you if you ask me why you ask well I might be one of your best customers that is if i like your brew so my feedback will be valuable :)

     
  • fritz Says -> no man is an island
    2:09 am on September 17, 2007 | 2 Permalink | Reply
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    Well on first day of ecap 2007 when i met fred he tossed a nice little question at me and the question was are you in love or something I like reading your status messages this days? (and I could not answer that as i went in mute mode at that point with just a blank stare on my face)

    Well the four letter word (yes the one which starts with the letter L) has a weird effect on me and makes me get an expression like the ones you see on the faces of the characters on the new i-Pill ads on TV this days. Well don’t get me wrong it is good to be in L but I can never seem to get past the like phase and trust me am stuck on that phase for a long long time.

    Well I wouldn’t say I am in L but yes it was a tiny weeny crush which came to a mutual end when it was decided that it would not work out but for some weird reason I felt and Still do if given a chance then it would have worked out but then again it takes two people to make it work not one. How did I know it was a super duper crush once when talking for the first time in my life I felt helpless and this made me feel like a human being someone who knows that there are times when you will have to be helpless and on your knees for someone else.

    Oh well All good things come to an end (this is what I told one cousin of mine today) if there were no good things in life our life would be just one never ending tragedy instead of a soap opera with a few comic characters in between and a script which gets written and extended every day. Well who knows whats in store in the near future new sparks or old ones might reignite ;) well one day I do hope to fall in L that is everyone’s dream but the path I am headed on becoming a work worshiper don’t see L happening in my life but who knows what new twist is there in store in my script for the forthcoming episodes hahahahahaha.

     
  • fritz Says -> gmail status for the day 9 sept 2007
    9:29 pm on September 9, 2007 | 3 Permalink | Reply
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    am thinking of taking up smoking now

     
  • fritz Says -> gmail status for the day 8 sept 2007
    9:28 pm on September 9, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    drinking beer to drown sorrows but sorrows cant drown the float :)

     
  • fritz Says -> gmail status for the day 7 sept 2007
    10:06 pm on September 7, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    mind fucked :(

     
  • fritz Says -> gmail status for the day 6 sept 2007
    10:05 pm on September 7, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    Luciano Pavarotti dies :(

     
  • fritz Says -> gmail status for the day 5 sept 2007
    10:46 pm on September 5, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    writing a business plan is a pain  :(

     
  • fritz Says -> gmail status for the day 2 Sept 2007
    5:56 pm on September 2, 2007 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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    here today where tomorrow?