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A closer look at one of the COVID vaccine candidates

Posted on March 25, 2020March 28, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

A vaccine or cure for COVID is the most anxiously awaited development at the moment. There are at least 60 teams working on different approaches to a vaccine, this article is about one such vaccine. Moderna, a US-based company developing a vaccine called mRNA-1273 for COVID, has announced they may begin a limited rollout of…

Coronavirus: what we know

Posted on March 2, 2020March 3, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

I had basic questions about the coronavirus but wasn’t able to find answers, until a friend pointed me to a podcast. It is called The Daily, produced by the New York Times, and it features an interview with Donald G. McNeil Jr., a health and science journalist. The interview addresses questions about the coronavirus —…

Notes on Gene Machine by Venki Ramakrishnan

Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 was awarded to three people including Venki Ramakrishnan. Ramakrishnan is an American-British-Indian scientist who played a key role in discovering the atomic structure of ribosomes. He wrote a book titled Gene Machine, chronicling the ribosome breakthrough, which was published in 2018. Ribosomes are present in cells of living…

Notes from How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen

Posted on November 28, 2019January 26, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

I had written down these notes/excerpts in Aug 2012 while reading the book How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen. He wrote the book around the time he was battling illness. While he’s known for books on innovation, in this book he shares business and life advice. I enjoyed the book. Notes from…

Notes on Smart People Should Build Things by Andrew Yang

Posted on August 13, 2019January 13, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

In late 2014 something clicked in my head. It was a year in which I’d read a few books on starting a startup, and started entertaining thoughts of founding a startup. A year later, I quit my job and jumped full-time into working on a startup. One of the books that influenced me was Smart…

Learning stuff on YouTube

Posted on July 9, 2019March 26, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

In rare moments of calm when my two year old nephew is not racing up and down the house on his scooter, he settles down to watch YouTube. He’s a YouTube “early adopter.” He’s been watching YouTube from when he was one. He now has a little inkling of all kinds of things — animals,…

How to make short videos and raise a $1 Billion seed round

Posted on December 25, 2018January 13, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

Startups raising seed rounds rarely make the news but this one did, for a reason. In October 2018, a US startup called Quibi raised a massive $1 billion seed round, which is 1000x the average seed round for startups. You might be thinking how and why they got so much funding. To find out I…

What startups can learn from Jeff Bezos’ letter

Posted on December 19, 2018January 13, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

Published on April 14, 2017 on LinkedIn A cool thing about Jeff Bezos’ recent letter to Amazon shareholders is the universality of his advice. The advice is relatable to startups as it is to corporate behemoths. Here’s a link to the letter: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517120198/d373368dex991.htm. A few snippets from the letter that are relevant to startups: “customers are…

Snapchat in a nutshell

Posted on December 19, 2018January 13, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

Published on March 10, 2017, on LinkedIn Most people I meet think Snapchat is only good for frivolous uses and are dismissive of the app, but as someone who studies social apps I see something quite the contrary. I see Snapchat as a bellwether for the future of communication and it has shown how amazing…

Whatsapp, we have a problem

Posted on December 19, 2018January 13, 2020 by Sunil Kowlgi

Published on Oct 2nd, 2016 on Medium I’m a WhatsApp power user. I spend about an hour on it every day, most of the time viewing photos and videos that others have shared. But the video experience on WhatsApp leaves a lot to be desired. I’ve noticed the following problems on the Android app. The…

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