Chess: If one looks at the game of Chess, each piece moves specified by different rules and the player knows the difference between each of the piece. The player leverages on the strengths of each piece, deploys a strategy using the pieces at various stages of the game.Playing Chess is much like managing a team. One needs to note the similarity between chess pieces and team members. Every piece is important for the ultimate aim, the victory.

Nowadays, it is rare that any website does not have rss feed . Hence most of the times I tend to subscribe the feed so as to track it forever. This works well for dynamic content. However there are umpteen number of instances where we want to keep track of few static pages. The solution ,generally followed is to store it in browser favorites. There are 2 drawbacks with this approach:

I was listening to a discussion between Marc Andressen (Netscape founder) and Don Rosenzweig (COO Of yahoo)titled " Lessons Learnt - Futures Predicted" . One of the main prediction from the discussion was relating to RSS , where the evolution is going to happen very fast. Monetising the content in RSS feeds might bring about a new Overture type of player in the market. One such player is already out Kanoodle which matches ad to the content and pays the blogger depending on click throughs

Daniel Colbert in his article says that Nanotechnology is not an industry. He says " Materials companies have traditionally been low margin, quick to commoditize and generally lacking pizzazz. These are not favored characteristics of venture-financed companies." I beg to differ: After reading the book “The next big thing is really small”, I did feel overawed by the range of applications that nano materials can be used. But that doesn’t mean commercial apps (scalable) are eons away.

In an insightful article on how startups make the crucial mistake of employing large salesforce at the early stages of the company, the author Mark Leslie argues on using Sales Learning Curve adapted from Manufacturing Learning Curve.