Why Lean Startup Is Hard In Practice
The hard things about Lean Startup in the real world.
Arvi Krishnaswamy
Entrepreneur and Tech Executive
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Lean Startup Machine is coming to Bangalore, India. I join a fabulous lineup as a mentor for new entrepreneurs who will attend the 3-day workshop.
I’d blogged recently about how we’ve adopted a new approach to how we’re running meetings at Levitum. A simpler, c...
We are currently experimenting with a clean, new approach to how we're running meetings during the week. This post shares the thought process behind the changes we've made.
An ode to the classic poem.
Questions that you absolutely have to ask.
Honor those that came before and use their work as a building block for yours.
A weight loss story. No magic. Just exercise and eating well.
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When I watch Roger Federer serve, his fluid brilliance is incredibly captivating. Balanced and relaxed start position...
Droidcon is India’s largest Android conference, and is part of the international chain of Droidcon conferences that h...
Late last month, Vinu, Aditya, Jay and I attended Pycon India for the first time. I made a presentation about the tec...
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So, I moved from Blogspot a year or so back, and began using a fabulous static site generator called Pelican. The dis...
The Education section of todays Times of India has covered my wife Monami Bhattacharya, chronicling her journey from ...
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I...
Arvi's blog has a new home. All new posts will appear here. So long, blogspot.
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This is my dedication to Dr Kurien of Amul, who passed away recently (September 9th 2012) at the age of 90. The Amul ...
Our Bangalore based team at Levitum works from home 3 days of the week. It’s awesome since we save nearly two hours o...
It was just a matter of time. My old blog from blogspot was lying virtually abandoned.I’d considered Posterous. And T...
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After nearly three decades as a middle school science teacher, Padma Krishnaswamy, my mom retires from D.A.V. Gopalap...
If you live in Bangalore, you'd empathize with the clip below:Do you hate Bangalore traffic as much as most of us do?...
Slides from my speaker session at Asian College of Journalism earlier today. Great audience, and insightful points ra...
I'm honored to be featured in my alma, Iowa State University's annual departmental newsletter for 2009-10. The newsle...
A little bit of this,and a little bit of that.I tweet lots,and twit not.Follow me on Twitter,and we'll get to know ea...
Our team at Levitum has put together a list of key mobile cloud trends to watch in 2010 based on market research. Whi...
It's been a whirlwind few months, and I've mostly been staying in touch with friends through Facebook and Twitter hav...
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Here's a little blast from the past - pictures taken near the Mahatma Gandhi statue near Marina beach (you can see th...
Our dog and one of her pals at play on our terrace. Check out this video on YouTube:Leia is the tease with the toy an...
Ok, I'll have to assume you've already unlocked and jailbroken it. If not, ethical ground aside, head here - you can ...
So long, and fair winds, matey!
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When I first heard of H1N1 a couple of months back, I seriously thought it was some new U.S. work visa category! It's...
I've been using Evernote for over a year now as my primary note taking app. It does a fantastic job keeping my notes ...
Sorry for having disappeared for a bit again - it's been a busy couple of months, and this should be an eventful post...
Monami starts work at Sungard on Monday! Since we've got a small window of opportunity now to have a quick vacation w...
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“Defeats never make you grow, but you also realise how difficult what I achieved up until today was, and this is some...
Obama's speech in Cairo yesterday was a great positive step towards U.S. relationships with the Muslim world. While I...
It turns out that Manmohan Singh needs 33 cabinet ministers as a part of his panel. In contrast, Obama requires only...
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This is a slightly delayed post to share an update that most of you are aware of by now, but may not be aware of all ...
Ma Belle is now a happy four month old pup and is growing up into the sweetest thing ever. She is the darling of the ...
My Food Blog has a fresh new look with a blazing fast blogger template that 'pre-loads' pages in advance so that your...
What an ad.A glorious sunset. Eastman color hues. A good looking young villager on a bicycle crossing a bridge leadin...
In the 22 years that I've watched tennis, I havent seen a better match, and this is perhaps the greatest every Grand ...
In Memoriam: Field Marshal Sam "Bahadur" Manekshaw(3rd April 1914 - 27th June 2008)The stories of Sam Bahadur's life ...
Our golden retriever pup is a hyperactive bundle of energy and loves playing my wife's old stuffed animals. Watch thi...
Do you feel at times that you are in so many meetings that you just arent adding much value? Or that you are in an a...
We have a new addition - my gift to Monami for her birthday! A golden retriever puppy! Although her birthday was earl...
Extracted from Peter Bodo's insightful post on the eve of the Federer-Nadal French Open Final."You have to be nuts to...
It's been a whirlwind month of May and I've been away doing quite a bit of travelling both on a personal front and on...
All,I got this note from a friend that I wanted to share this with a broader group. I know we all get emails like th...
I wasnt too keen on an iPhone since I prefer to separate my phone from personal entertainment, and I didnt want to ja...
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I will go to Morocco someday. I just dont know when.I cant quite describe what mysterious forces seem to draw me ther...
Alex Goggins is a seven year old girl who was shot seven times in trying to defend her mother (also in picture)."Alex...
I am very happy and proud to share some great news. On Saturday, Feb 9th 2008, Vanchi Publications, launched the firs...
So far, I've always had a point and shoot digicam. While I havent suddenly been bit by the shutterbug, I've increasin...
Question: If you could have dinner with any person, from any part of the world and from any point in time (past, pres...
We just celebrated our anniversary with a relaxing few days at the lovely Victor Exotica resort in Goa, spending end...
Djokovic will beat Federer. But Shhhhh for now.I have a good feeling about Nole and his all court game.. Let's wait a...
On November 24th, 2007, a young Adivasi girl was stripped naked on the streets of Beltola, Guwahati in Assam, and sev...
Monami is on the cover of Cosmopolitan!!!As a clever reader of my blog, there's no fooling you, and you've likely alr...
In Memoriam: Sir Edmund Hillary(20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008)Hillary has inspired me not just through his legendary...
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To me, Pixar's animated movie, Ratatouille, is perhaps the very best of 2007. I watched it on a long haul flight, an...
There's enough said and written about global warming and its impacts. But these pictures I found online about polar ...
It's December, and the tennis season for 2007 is pretty much over. As you know, the season runs Jan-Nov every year. A...
There's so much to write about our travels and experiences in Europe over the last month, but there just hasnt been e...
Many of you know this by now, but for those whom I might have missed talking to or emailing (Sorry - its been a few h...
Amazingly enough, many of the best things in life come simple and easy.O Discovering the Flight Simulator in Google E...
Wonder which IT skills are in demand in the job market? Here are some excerpts from an insightful article from Comput...
And so here you have it all... Federer's 12, and in all likelihood a sequel and more coming soon...His Grand Slam tit...
"A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indian...
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Serena Williams led today's game against Daniela Hantuchova 6-2 6-5 when she fell down with painful calf muscle cramp...
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Here's a neat pic of Monami and I flanked by my best buddies from school at our reception (L to R - NP, Anand, and Ra...
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I'm currently in Shanghai for work related meetings and have been having trouble getting to Blogspot since the Chines...
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I've resisted blogging about Bangalore and stray dogs (over 10 on my street!) - there's just enough said out there an...
I started a silly prank on a few colleagues this Fool's Day - The pretext? That we had just closed a deal through a r...
This is high on the Cute-o-Meter!!! 14 year old Federer, who was a ballboy at his hometown tournament in Basel, Switz...
Google Analytics offers interesting insights into the visitors to your blogs. For instance, I found thatMost visitors...
Well, some good news to share: A patent applied by Iowa State in Feb 2001, based on work I had done earlier during my...
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I made a brief trip on Jan 18th to Seoul, Korea along with our sales team in an effort to identify strategic partners...
'In any other era, I would already be number one'. However, says Rafael Nadal in an interview with Bikash Mohapatra, ...
Melanie organized a fun carol singing event at work last week. Although I joined the first days practice, a bad throa...
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I am!!! Here's our wedding invite designed by Monami and I - well, mostly by her really. It's in the format of a boo...
When I went into the theater to watch Casino Royale this weekend, I was expecting the usual 'leave your brains in the...
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After Christina Aguilera a few months back, my cousin recently interviewed Stephen King!!!Yes Rahul - this is big tim...
Mons and I got a digitized sketch made at Garuda Mall.
I've traveled to 22 countries, but I am yet to touch LatAm and Africa. Lets see - I might visit Serengeti in Tanzania...
The year is 2001, and the quarter finals of Wimbledon has just ended. Roger Federer has dethroned the reigning champi...
Nicholas Negroponte's dream of 'One Laptop per child ' is inching closer towards reality.2B1, the children's laptop f...
(I'm posting a joke a friend forwarded me - source unknown)Bush, Manmohan, Aishwarya rai and Sonia are traveling in a...
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My company hosts an annual 'Aisle decoration' contest sometime around Diwali, and its always a very competitive and h...
I had a lovely birthday, spending my day trying to do as many of my favorite things as I could. I had a list of ten, ...
Is it just me, or is this one of the finer music videos ever made? Did any one else like this one? This was one of t...
That's a small gash I had from my bike fall. Not seen in the picture - I had bruises on my arm, knee and shoulder, wh...
On the last day of our trip to Brussels, I and my colleagues visiting from the States made a trip down to the nearby ...
Travelling again, but this time on work, I was in Brussels during the last week of July. Although I’ve been to Europe...
I’m falling pretty behind on my blog and am writing a few ‘predated’ posts. ;-)I was in Pune and Nasik in July, visit...
1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me ei...
"I was built to be the best Number one and nothing less Leave me to my destiny I have waited patiently I have vision'...
Shannon, one of my good friends from my Iowa Sate days sent me this pretty funny pic of her dressed up as Harry Potte...
Now this is a really funny video Nick sent out :-))) It's called Curry-N-Rice Girl and is a parody of Gwen Stefani's ...
In a freak case, a baby girl in the UK has survived and been delivered by emergency Caesarean after growing in her mo...
I just got back from a 2 day business trip to China to finalize an agreement with a new customer. I was quite blown a...
I just love the new Adidas ‘Impossible is Nothing’ commercials featuring two kids in dusty Latin American slum select...
Back when I was in highschool, our teacher gave us a biology class assignment - each one of us was to put together a ...
I'm off to Shanghai, China this coming weekend on a short business trip to meet with a prospect. Any tips on things ...
Inspired by Vidya, one of the 'kids' in our office with a passion for trekking, a few of us set off on a day trip las...
Christine sent me a link to the Huckabay McAllister dance company she now works with in San Francisco - they've got a...
A few months back, we hosted a mock intra-team Olympics at work around the time of the Winter Olympics at Torino. One...
My highschool (DAV Gopalapuram, Chennai) featured recently in a Rediff article titled "Welcome to India's best school...
For sports lovers, this is going to be a long and fun filled summer, with the French Open, FIFA soccer world cup, and...
After what has felt like the longest time ever, I saw a good movie worth writing about. And what was special about th...
The resemblance goes beyond the sirtaki like poise - Baghdatis's dream run to the Ozzie final earlier this year was a...
The games begin on May 28th and run all the way through June 11th. I'm eagerly looking forward to another showdown b...
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Although I love latin music and dance, it's been a while since I've had a chance to go out dancing here in Bangalore....
Last weekend, Aditya, Vengada, Ramesh and I made a trip to the Bheemeshwari fishing camp along the Cauvery river. Th...
Rajkumar, the Kannada thespian died of a cardiac arrest at the age of 77 last Wednesday, and the state plunged into m...
The Fireflies Festival of Sacred Music is an annual "dusk to dawn" all night long music festival held at the Fireflie...
Take a quick look at the list below. If the list for your gender seems to reflect your personal tastes, you might wa...
I am "it". I was "tagged" by my colleague Monami as a part of this ongoing online feud to write the best 55 word shor...