2012

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Always Be Closing

Sachin Rekhi

Alec Baldwin’s epic performance in Glengarry Glen Ross is a great reminder that selling is all about confidence. And it’s equally important when selling yourself when first meeting someone. Having strong conviction and confidence will signal that you are certainly someone worth remembering.

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Communication, Consensus building and Collaboration

Product Management and Strategic Marketing

In aviation there is an acronym called the 5 C’s: Climb, circle, communicate, confess, comply. All these are meant to assist a pilot who has lost orientation; they give you an opportunity to look at things from a different view - hence the climb and circle. However, if that isn’t sufficient, you need to admit you are lost and contact flight control where you communicate your situation, confess your mistakes and comply with their instructions.

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How Rocky Balboa knocked down Drago?

SidsAvenue

I was on a business trip last week. Post a hectic day, I went to the Hotel room, switched ON the TV and what I see " Rocky IV" is in action. I got glued to the TV and the 1.5 hours were well spent. I got completely refreshed and I feel I became more fit to be in the ring of Life. I thought why not I share this fitness tips with you all… For those who have not seen the movie, this is the context.

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4 Reasons You’re Crazy If You Don’t Own A Kindle (If You’re An Entrepreneur)

Bryce York

1. It saves you time. I hated having to wait two weeks for a book to arrive from Amazon. By the time it got to my door, I’d lost the excitement. With my Kindle I can buy a book and have it ready to read in 2 minutes! 2. It saves you money. You can use your kindle to read free ebooks and articles as well as kindle books which are up 80% cheaper than the softcover versions, especially if you include the cost of shipping. 3.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Why Your New Development Methodology Didn’t Fix All of Your Problems

Pragmatic Marketing

It’s very easy to confuse actual progress with intentions to make progress. Why point out the obvious? I’ve had too many Agile conversations where executives confused “we want to build better software faster” with “we hope that some new processes will instantly catch us up on years of slipped deadlines and missing features.” The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu is credited with saying: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” But that

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What Motivates Me?

Sachin Rekhi

I often get asked what motivates me as an entrepreneur to do what I do. For some it’s fortune, for others it’s fame. But for me, it’s this: Seeing the positive impact the software I’ve built has on real people every day. That’s what motivates me. That’s why I do what I do!

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Why you should have a Virtual bookshelf?

SidsAvenue

This is the second last post in this series that all dedicated to everything about books. To set the context of this series, the preface post was focused on pointing out the importance and benefits of Reading Habit and Books. In then next post, the tools that help you buy books were embossed out. In this post, I will talk about the tools will help you manage your library.

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Smart, Simple, and Easy To Use!

Product Management and Strategic Marketing

On the opening night of the Olympics, we decided to make popcorn to enhance our viewing experience. As we’ve done many times before, we placed a colored paper bag in the microwave with kernels, hit the start button and lo and behold-- the bag caught fire. As a person who plans ahead, I had a fire extinguisher in the kitchen. I attempted to use it when everything went haywire; I pulled the stopper off and pressed on the lever, and nothing happened.

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Tools to help you with your book purchase

SidsAvenue

So after defining the importance of having a library in my last post, I wanted to come up with ideas to help you and of course my self to get the Library loaded up in a cost effective way. This post is aimed to serve that purpose. I will be covering the 3 best places that I use to purchase books and fill all the shelves of my Library cupboard. To keep the post crisp and relevant, I am will concentrate only on the places where you have to shell out money to buy books.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking. You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap.

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On Why You should have a Library…

SidsAvenue

I recently happened to attend a training program conducted by Dale Carnegie Training Institute. The Skill cycle The trainer talked about a Skill cycle that says Practice is what transforms knowledge into a skill.Very valid point. Follow this link to access the Presentation I am referring to. I thought for a while and a question popped up in my mind… Is it really possible to practice and experience everything that is needed for mastering a skill, to transform knowledge into a Skill… I don’t think

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Can product management be standardized?

Product Management and Strategic Marketing

As one of the organizers of product camp Boston last month, I was pleased to see so many attendees. We had nearly 40 sessions ranging from marketing to product management to running a start up. With so many takes and aspects of product management, it got me thinking: Can product management ever be standardized? Those of you familiar with PMI probably heard of the PMP certification.

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The Time Release Concept of Enthusiasm…

SidsAvenue

One of the factors that stops or I should say discourages people like us from doing what we like, what we wish, what we cherish,what we dream is the fear of failure. According to Wikipedia, People develop specific fears as a result of learning. That’s quite strange, isn't it? When we learn something ,we acquire knowledge and Knowledge is power, we all are living in the knowledge era.

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How Twitter keeps me inspired?

SidsAvenue

I started using Twitter to promote my blog as its one of the mostly widely tips given by blogging experts. I discovered, apart from boosting traffic to my blog, Twitter has kept me inspired since the time I am on Twitter. This post is all dedicated to the top 20 Inspirational tweets from my favorites. You could follow me on Twitter, my handle is @charmingsid… Top 14 Inspirational Tweets… @GreatestQuotes: You just can't beat the person who won't give up. @ Notebook: I am NOT shy.

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How to Build an Experimentation Culture for Data-Driven Product Development

Speaker: Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product, Statsig

Experimentation is often seen as an aspirational practice, especially at smaller, fast-moving companies who are strapped for time and resources. So, how can you get your team making decisions in a more data-driven way while continuing to remain lean and maintaining ship velocity? In this webinar, Margaret-Ann Seger, Head of Product at Statsig, will teach you how to build an experimentation culture from the ground-up, graduating from just getting started with data-driven development to operating

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Internet is Fun, says my Grandpa…

SidsAvenue

For me, Technology is an Enabler. It should enable people to have a better life, enable to communicate better, enable to perform better, enable to socialize better, empower people to make this world a better place to live. Internet is one such technology. I have experienced its power when I was abroad sometime back and now in India, I experience Internet using my Data card.

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14 must use Internet based services

SidsAvenue

Internet has a whole lot of services to offer that can help us to automate, to organize, to manage, to synchronize, to backup, to share, to track things that impact us at both professional and personal levels. This post is all dedicated to find 15 such Online Services that are I feel are must for an individual. In the list, I have excluded the champions of Internet namely Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube for obvious reasons.

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10 Lines that will make you Think…I bet

SidsAvenue

1. Knowing what to do is important, knowing what not to do is critical – Its my belief 2. Don’t expect a lion not to eat you because you are a vegetarian –unknown 3. We are creators of emotions and not logic –unknown 4. Brevity is the soul of wit –unknown 5. Be a visionary and also a fire-fighter- Ratan Tata 6. The best way to kill competition is to partner it – Its my belief 7.

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Are you aware of the theory of Traffic and Trust

SidsAvenue

I have been blogging for around 2 years now and like every blogger, often Google to find out ways to increase traffic on my blog. The ideas were very common like Comment on others articles in your niche, build a strong social network, write guest post etc. These techniques works pretty well. Still it was not good enough and I was looking for something else.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.

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3 Ideas about Monetization through Affiliation

SidsAvenue

Liked a product, grab it and Share it Online shopping is an integral part of lives these days. The shopping sites wants to make use of the social media to accelerate there sales. And so they have Affiliate programs. As a part of the program, you are paid a part of the sales revenue generated by you as a commission. All you have to do is, share the product you purchased, share the service you liked, share the deal that made you shout wow, share the book that made your day and you are on for a few

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Solve Challenges and Earn money

SidsAvenue

So, till now the options explored were Fun oriented. Here, in this post, we will get into a more serious mode. We will explore the option that should will excite the people who like to put their brains to work, people who like challenges, people having loads and loads of creative juices. I am going to touch upon the Crowdsourcing element from the list of avenues that could become your second source of income.

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Earn revenue for consolidating your expertise

SidsAvenue

The Internet age which we all are living very aptly epitomizes the old and known saying " Knowledge is power ". We all need to have some kind of expertise. The expertise to be excellent at the job, the Expertise to carry out the business activities, Expertise to make a great leader, Expertise to be a better home maker, expertise to be a better dad, a better husband!!

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My Professional Identity

Sachin Rekhi

I recently went through the thought exercise of trying to define my professional identity on the web. When thinking about the various components that make up my professional identity, I thought about it in terms of what I’d like people to know about me and what best represents myself and my work. My Primary Identity. The following four online presences represent the core of my professional identity. 1.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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An Important User Acquisition Lesson From My Many Hours on YouTube

Sachin Rekhi

Those who know me know that outside of software, music is a great passion of mine. But not just any music. More specifically, music from up and coming unsigned artists on YouTube. What excites me about artists at this stage is you see them acoustic and raw, often just a guitar or piano and their own vocals. By following them over time, you also watch them grow in confidence and mature over surprisingly short periods of time.