You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.  - Olin Miller

Cafe Coffee Day in India Siddhartha’s family comes from chikmagalur in karnataka , and has grown coffee for generations. Most of the coffee plantation owners were facing tough times as the market prices were not at all commensurate with the effort that goes in to making coffee. The prices an year forward can never be predicted with certainty and plantation owners face a tough time selling their produce. The world wide coffee market is 120 million bags and about $ 7 billion market.

There is always something to learn from reading books of people who have built great companies. In this book, Subroto Bagchi explains in a lucid and in an conversation type style, takeaways from his entrepreneurial career. The book is nicely arranged in to 18 chapters. Here are key points from each of the chapters When do I know I am ready ? If remotely, the thought of safety net haunts you and you cannot talk yourself out of it, then you are not prepared for it

I encountered a strange incident today. As I was leaving Bangalore, there was a need to move my stuff back to Hyderabad. I had called up one of the local packers and movers service in bangalore, one with door to door service, which means they land up at your place, pack all the things that you want to ship to your destination, and deliver at the destination . The charges for the services were definitely high.

Ian Stewart’s books have really caught my attention nowadays. After reading his book, " Letters to a Young Mathematician", I gulped “Nature’s Numbers”. The book is all about seeing nature from a mathematician’s POV. The book starts off with an introduction of nature and patterns. Patterns of form and Patterns of movement are so widespread in the nature that it is difficult not to observe them. Ripples in the pond, Stripes on Zebra tiger, movement of horses, elephants, mammals all happen based on a pattern.