Global Themes

Globalization: Hype or real?

Over the last 2-3 days, I have been looking at how many blogs cover globalization as a theme…I did not find many. However, there were a few notable exceptions. 

Ed Sim has a category called Globalization on his blog, Beyond VC and some interesting posts  Eric Briy’s blog also has globalization as a category (although not in the context of venture capital). Nevertheless, it has some interesting posts such as this. 

I also looked the Venture Capital Blogs Resource Page and checked the dozen or so VC blogs listed there – again I could not find anyone (other than Ed Sim’s blog above) which explicitly had “Globalization” as a category – although they probably would have covered it in some of their posts.. 

So is this just hype or are people still figuring it out? I know I am…

July 24th, 2006 Posted by Shantanu | Globalization | no comments

“Networking” – Transactional or Relationship-building?

Seth Levine put out a post last week on networking on his blog which made me a little uneasy.

Then I came across this post by Andrew referring to another post by Dharmesh Shah and realised why…

In his post Dharmesh wrote:

But, sometimes, it’s good to just be human and have a genuine conversation with other people.  … You don’t need to always be closing.  Sometimes, it’s enough just to “always be”.

I agree whole-heartedly. Some of my most useful (and happy relationships) are with people whom I met “accidentally” – or at least serendipitously.

Andrew referred to Dharmesh’s post and wrote about his own approach to networking: Keep Reading…

July 24th, 2006 Posted by Shantanu | Miscellaneous | 2 comments