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It’s worth starting a startup based on an idea even if it is easy to copy.

First of all, it will take competitors a long time to realize that your idea is even a good thing to do.

Even when competitors realize your idea is good, (a) it will take them a long time to implement and (b) they’ll probably screw up critical things.

And finally, working on your ideas will lead you on to new ideas. So you’ll be a moving target; by the time competitors copy what you’re doing now, you’ll be doing more.

The Economist takes a good look at retailing in India.

Determine a sex by name. If you don’t know if a name is male or female, just search for the name on Google images. (e.g. “Priti“)

The IIMB PGP99 Birthday calendar is online. You can add it to Google Calendar, iCal or Mozilla Calendar. Here’s the XML version.

Meet the Author releases short videos of authors introducing their books on Google Video. It covers fiction and non-fiction, like James Surowiecki on The Wisdom of Crowds, Richard Dawkins on The Selfish Gene, Jeffrey Archer on False Impression and Frederick Forsyth on The Avenger.

Why is nanotechnology in the top Google queries from India?

Google Calendar is out. But for some reason, it’s too slow for me.

Google Calendar screenshots.

Grow by shrinking a market.

For every dollar of revenue Microsoft made, it took away six dollars of revenue from their competitors. Every dollar of Microsoft’s gain caused an asymmetrical amount of pain in the marketplace. They made money by shrinking the market.

Windows XP commands for the command prompt.