Guy Kawasaki on Mumbai
Guy Kawasaki (born 1954), one of the original Apple Computer employees responsible for marketing of the Macintosh in 1984, is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
a Wikipedia article on him here
Here are some excerpts from his blog (signal to noise)
I loved Indian pricing strategy: for example, 10 rupees for residents and 300 rupees for tourists at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum.
The place that most impressed me was Dhobi Ghat. This is an area where laundry workers wash and dry clothes. I can’t quite explain why it had such a profound effect on me. It was just surrealistic: bright colors in dark washing pens and flogging stones.
India has its own version of Amazon.com. At two intersections, kids came up to the car to sell us paperback versions of current business books. We bought a copy of The World Is Flat for $3. Not sure if I should be happy or depressed, but The Art of the Start was not available.
read the full article here, and some great pics here….
ps. i noticed that his images are stored on filmloop, which is venture funded by garage tech., which i know Guy is a part of ……..
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