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I have been working on a book over the past few months. The objective of the book was to talk to 100 entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to understand how they went through the various challenges that come with starting up a business.

I was fortunate to talk to a number of extremely successful entrepreneurs including the founders of companies like Freelancer.com, Fiverr, Udemy, Grooveshark, RackSpace, Tagged.com, etc. Outside the technology space, I got to talk to the founders of companies like YogaFit who are the world's largest Yoga training school, All American Clothing, Wild Wing Cafe, etc. There are also a few entrepreneurs I talked to who did not succeed in their ventures and they described the pains of finding a regular job after a startup failure.

Overall, it was a wonderful experience talking to farmers, bakers, social media experts, sales executives, etc. as they told the story of their struggles.

Here is a preview for the book : https://www.dropbox.com/s/0evrb66hvg4ucoy/Preview-copy.pdf Amazon link : http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-entrepreneurs-struggles-experiences/dp/149759975X/

I have included the master list of all entrepreneurs featured in the book in the last page of the preview; in case anyone's interested.

Would love your feedback on my book.

Just heard in the news that the search for the missing MH370 has now shifted 3000kms to the south west of Perth. I wonder if somebody can write a script that can scan the blue seas across the Indian ocean and adjoining seas to come up with all locations that are not blue in color. Yes, there will be a lot of false positives like ships and other debris, but if we can use this script to reduce the workload to a few thousand datapoints, we should once for all know if the plane crashed or is now elsewhere.