Where you whiz past the Irritating Voice Response (IVR)

Fonolo.
Sigh, if only my brain came up with such brilliant product ideas.  Can you imagine a company who deal with removing frustrations caused by phone calls from our lives?  Yes, I would pay to get rid of that.  Shai Berger has successfully identified a niche where no competition exists, not because others didn’t find it [...]

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Cassette tapes – Do people even use them?

Yes.  In prison.
No, seriously.  Even today.
I used to have a pretty neat collection of tapes, about a decade ago.  Some stolen (borrowed and never returned), some gifts, some of which I actually saved up money for.  And a few months back, I was in S’s house and we suddenly went down memory lane and dug [...]

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A restaurant without food?

And you create a whole new business model on that?
There is one founding concept that this whole model thrives on. Trust.  The patrons here are expected to bring/cook their own food and are given the spatial expanse of a old boathouse converted into a rustic harbourside restaurant.  And they leave behind any amount of money [...]

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Madras sans Hoardings – Eyes wide shut

Before April 2008, I could see blue.  I could see yellow.  Pink.  Red.  Orange.  Purple.  I could see various other colours whose names menfolk reading this cannot comprehend. (Men cannot understand words like teal ) All of this on the colourful hoardings that adorned Madras’s skyline.
But there was one colour that I rarely saw.  [...]

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