Sivaram V. T.

I have developed few business ideas & couldn't implement them because of personal reasons. I put them on hold. To my surprise, in a period of very short time, I could see them implemented by someone else.

I was thinking about it for some time and felt that we cannot really curb the competition. It is true that we cannot kill the competition. It is the time of entrepreneurship & everyone is competing to fill the holes in the system we have.

Then, how do we survive if another business' offering is same as ours? Think about the value you deliver. It is not the traditional product / service you offer but the value you deliver to your customers. Innovation lies there. It could be a subtle change but good enough to create a magic.

Sometime back I read this article in DARE site, How to zig when others zag. I found this interesting.

Recently I came across this site dryicons.com when I was searching for free icons. They make beautiful icons and give it for free. You can use it in your personal or commercial websites but attribution is required in a visible place. I would say, give that backlink in the footer. If you don't want to give attribution, then go for commercial license.

Now they are making vector graphics and blog templates as well. The template used in this blog is made by dryicons.

Thought to share this as I found this site useful for web developers

Akash Chopra in his article in cricinfo.com analyzed the captaincy styles followed by IPL team captains.

Here's the links http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/453382.html

I feel we can borrow these styles for managing any teams.

Leadership by example
Leadership by direction
Leadership by seduction
Leadership by association
Leadership by delegation

Here's some good stuff on volume analysis.
http://business.rediff.com/report/2010/mar/26/perfin-when-to-buy-and-sell-shares.htm

Thanks rediff.com

Here is the crux (excerpt from the article ).

The basic rules of volume analysis are as follows:

1. When prices are rising and volume is increasing, the present trend will continue, i.e., prices will continue to rise.
2.When prices are rising and volume is decreasing, the present trend is not likely to continue, i.e., the price rise will decelerate and then turn downward.

3.When prices are falling and volume is increasing, the present trend will continue, i.e., prices will continue to fall.

4.When prices are falling and volume is decreasing, the present trend is not likely to continue, i.e., the price decline will decelerate and then prices will turn upward.

5.When volume is not rising or falling, the effect on price is neutral.

When I heard the term 'Social network analysis' for the first time, I felt it must be something related to analysis on networking sites like twitter or facebook. But after I spent sometime on it, I started feeling that it is not just analysis on social networks but far beyond that.


You can represent any data in a network (Graph theory network) if it has got nodes and connections between them. You can do whole lot of analysis & derive useful inferences from it. For example, given a social network from twitter, you can easily find out who is the most influence person in that particular network. We can think of many applications in this line.


There are so many opensource tools available just for this analysis and visualiation. In Windows world you can use NodeXL plugin to have nice network visualization and analysis in your Microsoft Excel itself. It is free!

Download NodeXL and connect to twitter and visualize your network. Have fun!

How is this new look? I liked it. It is like a bundle of old papers. I feel it is little cluttered but still it got my attention. Thanks to you folks at dryicons.com for making such a beautiful template!