{"id":984,"date":"2011-03-20T00:31:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/?p=984"},"modified":"2011-03-20T00:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T19:03:32","slug":"5-dot-balls-and-a-6-or-6-balls-peppered-with-dots-singles-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/5-dot-balls-and-a-6-or-6-balls-peppered-with-dots-singles-doubles\/","title":{"rendered":"5 dot balls and a 6? Or 6 balls peppered with dots, singles, doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moment I made up my mind to come out<\/a> from the “other side”; the next-second got busy into what’s the next thing. Several ideas, and several discussions with friends, ex-colleagues and advisors. A lot of times, things went into, “Let’s do something big, yaar”. \u00a0The “big-ness” got defined by the size of consumers who could potentially use the product, as in “Let’s do something big on facebook (as a platform)” or “Let’s do the next big thing in mobile” instead of the size of the impact the solution could have on the customers.<\/p>\n

In an effort to rationalize, tweeted the title of this post and bang came some great replies:<\/p>\n

@brij said<\/a>:<\/p>\n

@1ndus<\/a> you are on the crease. playing. that’s usually enough. Take a proper stance and cover your assets with a nice AD guard!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another one<\/a> by @zenx:<\/p>\n

@1ndus Test match hai dude. Think sessions, not overs, even as you capitalize on the loose deliveries!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, @riteshagar suggested<\/a>:<\/p>\n

@1ndus Simple think. Do as @sachin_rt<\/a> does. Care only for the next ball; not for overs, innings or sessions !<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a shift happening, although the day dreams of creating an 800-pound gorilla still persist, but the execution has become very pragmatic. This recent<\/a> Techcrunch post by @petersims further nails it:<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

RIP, Sixer in every over. Welcome, six runs on six well-played balls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The moment I made up my mind to come out from the “other side”; the next-second got busy into what’s the next thing. Several ideas, and several discussions with friends, ex-colleagues and advisors. A lot of times, things went into, “Let’s do something big, yaar”. \u00a0The “big-ness” got defined by the size of consumers who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[151],"tags":[257,321,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":987,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}