Author: unitechy
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Consulting
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Since last year I’ve done a bunch of consulting jobs. It’s great. You get to learn a lot that you can apply to your day job. For many of my Twitter followers, freelance consulting is their bread and butter. I’ll be lying to say I’ve never thought of jumping into full time freelance consulting. It…
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Stop lying, Uber?
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Earlier this week Uber announced that it will create one million jobs for women by 2020. It has partnered with the UN in order to create a platform for the economic empowerment of women. Uber is known to have an anti-female reputation and this move looks like a PR trick to get away from the…
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Thoughts on Paytm and prepaid wallets
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I have been using Paytm for couple of years now. Mostly to recharge my prepaid mobile balance and have since then embraced all new features that it added – be it bus booking service, or adding cash to wallet. When it introduced its marketplace, I was thrilled and kept checking for ‘good’ deals on the…
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Startup Saturday: 13/9/2014
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Yesterday I attended Startup Saturday after a long time. I actively participated in organizing these events for some time but the enthusiasm waned off, probably due to lack of time or all the gyaan was getting too much digest. The reason I attended this month’s event was because the theme of entire event was around…
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Education has perception issues
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I have been thinking a lot during this weekend on why education system in India is the way it is. At some point, I thought I got an answer in: education should be affordable to everyone irrespective of their status quo. But that is already happening in India. The Government of India already provides free…