Sachin Rekhi
JUNE 29, 2010
I had lunch with an old college buddy last week and he has been considering moving to San Francisco to start his next venture. We got into a discussion of the potential advantages and disadvantages of doing so. I thought I'd throw up my thoughts on the subject for those interested. I've been in San Francisco now for the past three years. My immediate prior residence was up in Seattle, but I originally grew up in upstate New York.
All About Product Management
OCTOBER 24, 2010
I came across this video on Youtube and found it quite inspiring so I thought it was worth sharing. The introduction on what is product management/marketing is quite succinct and bang on target. Many of the points resonated with me especially the frequent referrals to the importance of the customer in developing your product offering. Hope you enjoy :-).
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SidsAvenue
DECEMBER 25, 2010
In my earlier post “HAVE YOU MADE TO SHOUT WOW” , I have talked about correlating compensation to something I term as "WoW" factor. This post is to dive deeper and unravel the curious case of this wow factor, to understand the drivers, to identify the triggers that make people to shout wow. There are many people, many organizations out there doing what you are involved in.
Bryce York
OCTOBER 19, 2010
Step #1 – Define yourself, in a 30 second soundbite, this needs to be so simple you can say it at gunpoint if you’re woken at 3 AM. For myself; “I’m creating amazing products and valuable content for eCommerce business owners – by solving real problems that everyone else is ignoring.” Now you know who you are, does everyone else know and agree that this is your identity?
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Sachin Rekhi
JUNE 17, 2010
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Sachin Rekhi
MAY 10, 2010
A Day in the Life of a Silicon Valley Startup View more presentations from Sachin Rekhi. I'm always interested in improving my development stack in order to maximize productivity, facilitate rapid iterations, and maintain flexibility. Over the years I've periodically iterated my web stack, from a Microsoft-based self-hosted environment, to a PHP-centered world, to finally my present PythonDjango stack on top of a cloud platform.
Sachin Rekhi
MAY 5, 2010
As many of you know, I spent the last two weeks getting married. Yes, it did indeed take two weeks, including a wedding on April 24th in the Bay Area, as well as a reception in my home town in Rochester, NY on May 1st. Beyond the actual wedding festivities, there were months of planning and preparations prior to the events. Now that all of this has culminated, I thought I would take a moment to reflect on the lessons learned relevant to the startup community from my recent wedding experience.
Sachin Rekhi
MARCH 15, 2010
Based on a suggestion from Andrew Chen , I spent Saturday afternoon reading The Monk and the Riddle by Randy Komisar , which put me in a reflective mood on my own goals and vision for success here in Silicon Valley. Randy Komisar put together a short narrative that challenges the traditional assumption of the deferred life plan, romanticizes the notion of business as a creative pursuit, and even finds room to go into a discourse on self-knowledge of one's own motivations.
Sachin Rekhi
MARCH 8, 2010
Every week I meet with different entrepreneurs asking for my advice on topics ranging from funding strategy, exit opportunities, user acquisition, monetization, to technology investment. However, unlike others who often have a set of best practices they like to dispense around these topics, I find myself spending a considerable amount of time understanding the entrepreneur's personal goals before laying out my recommendations.
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 16, 2010
Lately I've been spending time thinking about freemium business models and how best to structure them to maximize conversions. I believe we are still early in our understanding of these models and to date most of the available analysis has been limited to anecdotal evidence, one-off case studies, tips & tricks, and a few early overviews of what's been tried.
Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 8, 2010
As many of you know, I'm a huge proponent of on-demand computing as I believe it's the best starting point for most early stage web startups. Cloud computing allows a venture to substitute high initial capital expenditures for operating expenses that grow proportional to your traction. Equally important is its ability to flexibility scale and retract with the ebb and flow of your business.
Sachin Rekhi
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Over the past two decades we have seen an evolution in the way we discover the content we consume online. I wanted to chronicle this evolution as well as offer a better way to take advantage of the next chapter in content consumption. Mega Portals Dominate. Many of us only faintly remember a world before the world wide web and the Internet. A world dominated by online services Prodigy (1990) and AOL (1991).
Sachin Rekhi
JANUARY 26, 2010
As many of you know, I'm a big proponent of open platforms and have spent much of my career designing, building, or leveraging open platforms and APIs. While we have seen explosive growth in social platforms over the past several years, I believe they are still very early in their history. I wanted to put out my 5 social platform predictions for 2010, as I think we are poised to see another exciting year of innovation.
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Sachin Rekhi
JANUARY 25, 2010
After last week's post I got quite a few folks asking me what exactly is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Since I didn't describe it in my previous post and there isn't very good information out there about the role, I thought I would provide an overview, it's benefits, and drawbacks. The Role The reason the definition of an Entrepreneur-in-Residence is so elusive is because the role takes on different meanings at different firms.
Sachin Rekhi
JANUARY 18, 2010
As many of you know, I spent the better half of 2009 as an Entrepreneur -in- Residence at Trinity Ventures. It was one of the most rewarding experiences I've ever had and would encourage anyone who gets the opportunity to do it. Working alongside Gus Tai , Ajay Chopra , Jim Tybur , Dan Scholnick , and the rest of the Trinity team provided an inside look into the world of venture capital.
Sachin Rekhi
JANUARY 11, 2010
I was perusing Andrew Chen 's bookshelf and came across The PayPal Wars by Eric M. Jackson. It turned out to be a riveting tail of the entire journey of PayPal, from its early conception to its monstrous success, retold by one of its earliest hires in marketing. It's a story I thought I knew, but there was so much more to it than the simple success story we all hear about.
All About Product Management
JULY 29, 2010
What do you do when you’re a product manager (for web applications and tools) who has started a new job, assigned to an existing team who are just about to embark on the development of a range of new products and product features? We’ll whatever the correct answer is, this is what I have started to do. The first step I took was to review the situation and give the team the opportunity to voice their opinion.
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All About Product Management
JULY 25, 2010
I was asked to present, at an interview, on how I see the role of the product manager working in an agile scrum environment. The key areas that I highlighted were: Scope and responsibilities of the product manager in scrum Typical product management activities in scrum A typical day in the life of the agile product manager The agile product management framework A case study – the benefits See full presentation below.
All About Product Management
JULY 9, 2010
I was being interviewed for a Product Managers position by a Chief Operating Officer (COO) who used to do the job that I was interviewing for. The company has adopted and really embraced scrum so naturally expects the Product Manager to take on many of the Product Owners responsibilities. I ask the COO to broadly split the role down into three aspects.
SidsAvenue
DECEMBER 10, 2010
Go Green is the latest buzzword. The internet is flooded with various ideas, tricks and ways of going green. There are various tools to measure the carbon footprint. Every industry is doing something or other to be green. From business point of view, Carbon credits are getting a place in the balance sheet. Being green means more carbon credits. For the Go Green revolution to be really effective, the common man also has to play a part.
SidsAvenue
NOVEMBER 27, 2010
Since the last decade or so, India has been witnessing a constant growth in GDP and absorbs a major portion of the foreign money. The retail market has been booming, the real estate market its at its peak, salaries of a crore or more are common for top honchos in MNCs. The kind of money 3G auction brought in was one of the biggest of its kind. The kind of subscription the recent IPOs have received shows the level of liquidity present in the market.
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SidsAvenue
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
There are 2 political arenas. One is the national politics and the other is the Corporate politics. For professionals, apart from possessing the usual qualities like Talent, Attitude, Hard-working Nature its equally vital to know the rules of this game called corporate politics. This article from Devdutt is one weapon which could be used when there is tug-off ware between loyalty and Individuality.
SidsAvenue
NOVEMBER 3, 2010
I dont think there could have been a better way of celebrating Dhunteras.Awesome article to read on this auspicious day when we all pray to Godess Lakhmi for wealth and Propsterity. Thanks to Devdutt Pattanaik. Long and short sight : Devdutt Pattanaik.
SidsAvenue
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
My first date with blogging happened some 4-5 years back. It was one of my roommates who would do something on his laptop and then try to Google a specific name/keyword on my desktop. In response to my questions, he said he has found a way of expressing thoughts, a way of being a writer, a way of being famous and most important making money. The facts lured me like anything.
SidsAvenue
OCTOBER 17, 2010
This day "Dushera" has a special place in my life. We used to live in Staff quarters of a company which has intrests in Transport business. The company had around 30-40 trucks and on Dushera each of them would be washed clean and decorated and offered "Puja". At that time, I used to look forward to this day because it meant lots of sweets and then long ride in the truck.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
SidsAvenue
OCTOBER 14, 2010
One of the SMSes that I received read "Life is a hard teacher, it takes the test first and then teaches the lesson". I am currently going through a phase where I am learning something new everyday. The learning is not necessarily from my personal experience but also from others like I mentioned here … Recently I have completed a new chapter after a tiring test.
SidsAvenue
OCTOBER 3, 2010
These days every thing is a project. Everything is about KRA completion. Infact, KRA achievement is the only thing which everybody is looking to accomplish. And this not because of the poeple, the system itself is such that everything your appraisal, your growth, your honour everything is linked to KRA. If you fail to achieve your KRA, you are no good for anything.
SidsAvenue
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
I have spent a considerable time of my life living away from family and as a bachelor. 4 years during my engineering and then 5+ years while working till I finally got married 8 months back. Since last few days, I have again got to be in the bachelor mode as my wife is away on travel. The routine was disturbed. There was nobody to take care of my food, my clothes.
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