Anirudh Suri

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  • Best Time Ever To Be An Entrepreneur In India

    If you read my last post, “Why Is It So Hard To Start A Business in India?” then you know that there are some big challenges to starting a business, especially a tech business, in India. But as I keep saying, this is actually the best time ever to be an entrepreneur in India. Here’s […]

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    March 4, 2014
    Entrepreneurship, India, Startups
    entrepreneurship, India, startups, technology
  • Why Is It So Hard To Start A Business in India?

    I’ve been in the startup trenches in India for the last three years. I’m currently the CEO of Findable.in, a location-based product search platform based in India, and I’m also the Founding Partner of India Internet Group, an early stage venture capital fund based in Mumbai, Delhi and New York. I think this is the best […]

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    March 4, 2014
    Entrepreneurship, IIG, India, Internet and Society, Startups
    Delhi, eksms, entrepreneurship, findable, hiring, India, startups
  • The New Frontiers of Efficiency at Scale: Obama’s New Organizers and Data Scientists

    The New Frontiers of Efficiency at Scale: Obama’s New Organizers and Data Scientists

    The election of President Obama in 2008 was by no means always the expected outcome. As analysts look back and analyze what gave him the edge over strong candidates such as Hillary Clinton in the primaries and then John McCain, many point to the Obama’s team of “New Organizers”. Four years later, the re-election of Obama […]

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    October 30, 2013
    Data, Data Analytics/ Big Data, Elections, Entrepreneurship, Internet and Society, Media, MPPDigital, Startups
    Barack Obama, Dan Wagner, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Obama, Sasha Issenberg, United States, Zack Exley
  • Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret? Customer Acquisition Strategies

    Silicon Valley’s Best Kept Secret? Customer Acquisition Strategies

    In an event yesterday at Harvard with Harvard alum Paul Graham, I asked him a question: “Paul, what are some of the interesting, successful customer acquisition strategies that you have seen being used by your startups, or startups generally?” His response: Can I not answer that question? This leads me to a thing I have […]

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    October 3, 2013
    Data, Entrepreneurship, Startups
    Andrew Chen, Dharmesh Shah, Harvard University, India, LaunchRock, List of Indian entrepreneurs, Paul Graham, Quora
  • Privacy, the Filter Bubble and Social Networking: Some Difficult Tradeoffs

    Privacy, the Filter Bubble and Social Networking: Some Difficult Tradeoffs

    Presumably, everyone values their privacy. The way the internet and the online is evolving, suggests otherwise. Never before in history has so much information about individuals been available so easily on a platform. People willingly share information online with their friends, acquaintances, and very often, even strangers. So does that mean, people have suddenly stopped […]

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    September 30, 2013
    Data, Internet and Society, MPPDigital
    AOL, Born Digital, Choicepoint, Facebook, Filter Bubble, Google, LinkedIn, T.J. Maxx
  • Adam D’Angelo of Quora: The Chicken and Egg Problem, Scaling Quality and Startup Culture

    Adam D’Angelo of Quora: The Chicken and Egg Problem, Scaling Quality and Startup Culture

    Met Adam D’Angelo, Founder and CEO of Quora today. Some interesting facts about Quora and some of highlights: Founded in 2009, Quora currently has about 65 employees, with 34 of them being engineers, and 7 (!) data scientists. The mission is to share and grow the world’s knowledge. While that might sound like Google, their take […]

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    September 20, 2013
    Data, Entrepreneurship, MIT, Startups, Uncategorized
    Adam D’Angelo, D’Angelo, Google, Quora, Twitter, Yahoo Answers
  • Clay Shirky – The Psychological Underpinnings of the Internet and its Implications for Society and Power

    Clay Shirky – The Psychological Underpinnings  of the Internet and its Implications for Society and Power

    Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, does an excellent job of describing the psychological underpinnings of the internet and its implications for organising and distribution of power. He begins by framing our understanding of the evolution of the internet.  From a point where the internet was seen as a […]

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    September 16, 2013
    Internet and Society, MPPDigital, Politics and Power
    Beijing Foreign Studies University, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Clay Shirky, Goldman Sachs, Here Come Everybody, Joi Ito, McKinsey & Company, Media, Politics and Power, Robert Putnam, Small-world network

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