Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Thursday, 15 May 2003

All the Rave

Kartavya
Abhi / Nagwekar
Inder / Pooja
15/05/03

VEE

All the Rave

The rise & fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster
(by Joseph Menn)

This book was reviewed in Financial Times (eFE).
Based on this review, in enclosed pages, I have tried to compare:

  • What Napster did / did not

  • What we should learn from Napster story

Obviously, there is a lot to learn.

And we must learn it well & translate into action. And, if in the process of implementation, we make mistakes (which we will), let us learn from these mistakes and correct them fast.

Being able to make a quick “Course-connection” is possible only on the internet. On the ground, if we put up a factory to manufacture tractors at an investment of Rs. 100 crores – and if tractors don’t sell, I cannot, overnight, convert that factory to manufacture microwave ovens! “Clicks” can be changed quickly – “bricks” cannot.

cc: Mr. Nagle










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