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Ramesh Srivats of digital branding firm TenTenTen provided some hilarious ones in Businessworld : All births will be announced on Facebook, and all deaths on Twitter. Google Plus will look on enviously. Flipkart will get a few hundred million dollars from VCs in March, July, and maybe November" The unkindest cut however was reserved for the future of the newspaper: The newspaper, in the meanwhile, will become a useful archive of all the stuff you read the previous day. It will totally integrate with your digestive system — wrapper for samosas, napkin to wipe mouth, fan to keep you cool while digesting, and companion while ejecting said samosas. Ouch! Ouch! and Ouch! PS: Obviously, the article was published well before the sad passing away of Sunanda Tharoor .  Venture Intelligence is the leading provider of data and analysis on Private Company Financials, Transactions (private equity, venture capital and M&A) & their Valuations in India. Click Here to view...

Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital is an investor in several well known US consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology startups like Twitter, Kickstarter, Uber, etc. A lawyer by education, he earlier worked at Google. Highlights:   Personal story Amazing story of how he lost millions in leveraged trading and how he clawed his way back. "Fake it till you make it": Highly entertaining story about how, when he was out of job, he created a fake management consulting company, The Salinger Group, and handed out its card at various networking forums (including TiE). He even offered to let his friends who were also out of jobs to use the company's name! On Entrepreneurs  Truly Disruptive Entrepreneurs: Failure is not part of the options for them. They never doubt the outcome. They just think "the world will be a better place if this product gets built". "If I'm the one asking the entrepreneur 'how can this be bigger', then...