nitin badjatia

January 2008

  • Ginger, nice hotels done right in India

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    Note: This post was originally scheduled for October 2007. One of the nice things about business travel in the US is finding a certain level of consistency in places to stay. Yes, the Courtyards and Hampton Inns are not the most exciting places to stay, but you generally know what you are going to get…

  • links for 2008-01-15

    Avoiding Plane Crashes By Crunching Numbers Via Paul Kedrosky’s blog, an interesting article that discusses data mining and avoiding air disasters (tags: travel airlines air_safety)

  • links for 2008-01-12

    The Personal MBA Manifesto: Mastering Business Through Self-Education (Recommended Business Books) The PMBA has been updated (tags: business mba education management personal entrepreneurship learning books)

  • Wired’s story on the secret development of the iPhone

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    Image by bizmac via Flickr It’s been a year since Apple unveiled it’s iPhone, which is considered by many to be a revolutionary device.  While that may be true, the greater revolution came from the manner in which the phone was developed and the equation altering manufacturer – carrier relationship that it left in it’s…

  • links for 2008-01-10

    Exclusive Lifehacker Download: Belvedere Automates Your Self-Cleaning PC Regain control of your files useing an automated butler (tags: software windows utilities freeware tools free sysadmin computer) RulesofThumb.org – Homepage Umm…to get rules of thumb on a bunch of stuff (tags: reference information howto tips ruleofthumb rules interesting trivia) Doubtsourcing Some outsourcing humor (tags: outsourcing cartoons…

  • links for 2008-01-09

    Office Supplies Fetish: Customize Your Notes with the Circa Modular Notebook This notebook looks pretty cool, and is modular enough to rearrange order quickly (tags: lifehacker circa levenger) The Omni Group – OmniFocus As I move closer to getting a Mac, I’ve been looking for the ‘best’ apps to migrate to. This seems like one…

  • links for 2008-01-08

    Deciding Which Financial Records to Keep | Life Skills : RealSimple.com A good list of things to keep, things to toss (tags: finance money organization financial lifehacks tips reference) Xinorbis – Main (tags: software windows utility filesystem freeware hardware tool harddrive) Online Master of Science Degree with a Concentration in Knowledge Management | Colabria Hmm,…

  • Mumbai’s new domestic terminal [October 2007]

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    Note: This post was originally set to be published in October 2007. Several of the following posts are finally making it online, after some technical (and other) issues over the last two months. I don’t frequent Bombay (Mumbai) that often, I haven’t really avoided the city, rather it’s never been high on my priority list.…

  • links for 2008-01-03

    Subsidies keep small-airport flights in the air – USATODAY.com (tags: airlines government pork) Edit Clip Art Images inside PowerPoint Presentations A good primer on how to edit image art inside PowerPoint (tags: PowerPoint Images Editing ClipArt) Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Obscure Google Search Tricks A nice selection of google tips that make finding solutions…

  • A good post about the challenges, and fun, of being an Entrepreneur in Residence

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    Andrew Chen, who’s blog is a new addition to my regular feed, has a nice post about being an E-i-R and what he learned from working inside a Venture Capital firm. I spent most of 2007 affiliated with Mohr Davidow Ventures, where I started out as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, and then transitioned into a consulting role…