Ravi’s Blog

As I mentioned in the post here, i wanted to think through about some guiding principles for the ideas i am planning to work on. It’s not that i don’t have any ideas that are worth working on, or i have some writers block. I do think that i have some very interesting and compelling […]

Our company’s lawfirm - WSGR - organized a “coaching” session with sequoia for some of the entrepreneurs they represent. My coach happened to be mike moritz - who’s prior successes include google & yahoo. He’s also recognized as #1 midas by forbes.
The format required that i make a short presentation covering the basics […]

Google finance launched last night. I was expecting them to launch google finance for a while, so i wasn’t totally surprised when katie stanton - google finance product manager - pinged me after the launch on messenger.
The front page looks like a simplified version of yahoo! finance. There are no currency links, mortgage rates, […]

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I discovered naval’s blog and also about Vast couple of days back. Today i come across paul kedrosky’s review about Vast.com and it’s strategy.
Vast.com is a vertical search engine for classifieds. I can think of few yahoo!s that will go - “I tried really hard to convince the powers @yahoo! that we should build this […]

I have been thinking for while about building some of my ideas. The cool thing is the freedom to experiment, follow one’s beliefs and the hope to make a vision into a real product. I guess quite a lot has been said in the blogosphere recently about risk/reward of a startup. There is a […]

In this morning’s post about a newly minted startup -minti, michael arrington says
This is another “walled-garden” solution - meaning the founders did all of the easy web 2.0 stuff - ajax, tagging, comments, etc. - but couldn’t make the hard choices when it came to site architecture and fell back on old web 2.0 […]

After 9+ years, yesterday was my last day at yahoo!. It’s been a great ride at yahoo!. Looking back, the last 9 years were exciting, fulfilling, educating, enriching for me.
In the last 10 years internet & information revolution has transformed the world and peoples’ lives at a previously unimagined pace. Yahoo! has been (and […]