Such a long journey
In the good old days, business was simple and straight. I need cotton. You need milk. We meet at the marketplace and drive a bargain. I trade one of my goats for the cotton you have. Both of us then go home. I spin the cotton to make all the shirts I can while you milk the goat.

Editorial
The Internet has created an opportunity which is desperately knocking at Indian doors. If it is grabbed now, ensuing years will witness the domestic business donning a different face.

The Net economy demands letting go of fond belief
There's this ambitious man with an insane idea. He’s built a crazy website, Buy.com, and put a virtual robot on it with a single-point agenda. Tracks prices on other sites that sell whatever he sells, then gets back and undercuts those prices.

Start ups and venture capital funds
The first step in starting your new business venture is to identify a market need and the product or service that will meet that need. Too often than not, high-tech products and businesses are launched because the founders are fascinated by their new technology.

Ready, steady, will you go?
Even as the world gets a hang of what Amazon-ed into submission means, business houses are facing the threat of being Dell-ed out of existence. Ask IBM.

How the Net ushers change
There is no denying that the Internet brings in far reaching changes. What makes for equally compelling reading are the kind of internal and external efficiencies that it infuses into an organisation.

Sons of the soil take Valley
"Its time to give my gurudakshina," declared The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) president, Kanwal S Rekhi, while presenting a cheque of $2 million to IIT, Mumbai. In his speech, he exhorted all Indians who have made it big in the Silicon Valley to give something in return to the institutions which have made them what they are today.

Men in the news
Prior to this, he was president/ CEO of Inxight Software Inc., (a Xerox company). Mohan was the chief architect of Inxight’s business plan: to take key software innovations developed at Xerox PARC and Rank Xerox Research Centre, for commercial use.