Anand Chandrasekaran

Thoughts on eBusiness, web strategy, and the net

Breakthrough Business Development

I just finished up a very good book called Breakthrough Business Development by Duncan Macpherson & David Miller. This book really focuses on the client management process and growing your business. This book is really intended for professionals that deal with client service such as financial advisors, attorneys, contractors, consultants, etc.
Though a [...]

iCon Steve Jobs

I just finished the first of my Winter reading, iCon Steve Jobs by Jeffrey Young & William Simon. It is a very quick read that moves through the legendary story of Apple’s rise to prominence. Most of the book is nothing that you probably couldn’t have got from various magazine clips, newspaper articles, [...]

Rich Dad, Poor Dad

I just finally finished the timeless classic, Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki. Though nothing he said was truly eye opening, he did have a great narrative to emphasize some very good points. The main point and theme of the book being independent income streams. In his mind, the true path [...]

Web 2.0 Expo - Reading List

Here are some books that were recommended in some of the better presentations I attended.

High Performance MySQL
Wikinomics
Good to Great
Don’t Make Me Think
Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?

Who Moved My Cheese?

Today I was thinking about ways to tighten the Burrp.com launch schedule. There is so much we have to get accomplished before we push out an alpha to our set of early release users. I was extremely happy with our progress of content boot strapping. I thought we were extremely well organized, [...]

Bootstrap As Long As Possible

One of the major issues we are facing with Burrp.com is the challenge of generating enough capitol to expand our content offerings. We are also trying to get things out the door as fast as possible. And that requires surge resources. Fours years ago I read a great book by Jim Clark called Netscape Time. [...]