Category Archive: Business

Book Review: ‘The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Shroeder’

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life – Alice Shroeder Alice Shroeder is an American author and former insurance analyst. She is a business major from the University of Texas, Austin… Continue reading

Reviewing Ruchir Sharma’s Breakout Nations

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(Rs. 419 on Flipkart, published by Penguin, released in April 2012) Over the last six months, I’ve read about half a dozen books on comparative studies of economies and their policies to wrap… Continue reading

Entry Level Corruption

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I was at a photocopy center near a college in suburban Mumbai when a tall guy gets off his bike and asks the shop keeper “Boss, Is my assignment done?” Ghostwriting thrives in… Continue reading

First day; for the second time

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You’ve planned for this day. The previous day is spent in anxiety, you don’t know what to expect. You pack your bag, look as neat as you possibly can, part your hair well,… Continue reading

Marketing Is King I – S. C. Johnson & Son

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Marketing is important. No one needs to market that fact to you. Most companies, whether they are big shots like Apple and Microsoft or much smaller ones contribute much in terms of time,… Continue reading

Entreprenurial Blogs II – Starting A Start-Up

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Starting a start-up is considered by many to be one of the most difficult and fearful tasks that exists. The major hindrance, as seen in Entrepreneurial Blogs I – Don’t Be Afraid To… Continue reading

TQ Feature: Our Last-Bench! Heroes

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We live in a fantastic time: a flat world, symmetry of information and a world ripe for path-breaking innovation. As people answer their call to entrepreneurship, we at ThincQuisitive bring you a whole… Continue reading

TQ Specials: Utsav Mitra speaks……..

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(The following are Utsav’s notes on his speech at the Youth Conference 2012 at Delhi University on 11 August 2012. The Youth Conference 2012 was organised by the Sri Ram College of Commerce… Continue reading

The ‘Deccan: Chronicle’ of an Empire Past

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There was once the Rome Empire. With its Caesars, its Triumphs, its Colosseums. And its excesses. The more things change, the more they remain the same. In July 2012, the Industrial Finance Corporation… Continue reading

Leadership 101 With The Dark Knight

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Whether you’re leading your team for a college project as a student, company project as a professional or business project as an entrepreneur, building and honing your leadership skills will go a long… Continue reading