One of the perks of living in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, is the fact that I encounter a lot of entrepreneurs on a daily basis. Based on my rendezvous with these people, I keep asking them this one question : Why do you want to launch a startup? Most of my friends who …
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Notes from Crash Course on Startup Boards with Brad Feld
While grazing my twitter timeline, I stumbled upon this recent post from Brad Feld titled The First Board Meeting and as I was going through the comments I found this video on youtube that you can watch for more detail.. Here Brad is describing efficient ways to participate …
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Notes from Nepal trip
Apologies for procrastinating this post, but I guess its better to be late than never. So today’s post is on the insights of a trip I took to Nepal. Last May,I visited a beautiful place Kathmandu, capital of Nepal mostly on work & had the luxury to convert into leisure. This was my first trip …
Technology as we saw in 2014.
I know i am little late in posting this, but wiseman said its better late than none. 2014 was year with announcement all around technology. It had some surprises as well & biggest of all MSFT taking .Net to open source. Cloud Foundry foundation announced. This announcement will add more value/credibility to overall project. Other vendors/enterprise …
Why startups abort?
Product market fit: Let’s say you have built an e-commerce product targeting the local market but it has limited internet penetration & online banking close to 0%. What happens to your product? It becomes restricted and misfit in the market you are targeting. Uber changed its payment policy in India because less than 10% of …
How to Start a Startup note #5
Today I spent listing to Paul Graham in the how to start a startup series lecture. Paul is fucking awesome, full of fun, honesty & blunt in giving an opinion. We need more such motivators in our startup ecosystem. My notes from his lecture: Listen to your intuition Work with people whom you respect and have known long …
How to Start a Startup note #4
Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching Lecture 13: How To Be A Great Founder by Reid Hoffman My notes for his class: Network network network. VC always tends to invest in company with co-founders as they compliment each other. Right place to start a right business like finance related startup makes …
How to Start a Startup note #3
Moving on to how to startup series class, I spent time watching Lecture 9: How to Raise Money and Marc Andreessen, Ron Conway and Parker Conrad had an interesting take on it. Some of my notes from the class: Build something awesome which pulls VC to you. Most VC invest in team, past success of the founders & product. If …
How to Start a Startup note #2
I know everyone is watching, reading, following @sama course how to start a startup. Today spent sometime watching Brian Chesky, founder Airbnb, he shared interesting story about Airbnb, how it started and all. I am keeping this notes for myself, if it helps someone else good karma gets added on me. 🙂 An idea is important …
How to Start a Startup note #1
I know everyone is watching, reading, following @sama course how to start a startup. I am keeping this notes for myself, if it helps someone else good karma gets added on me. 🙂 Lecture 1: Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I My notes: Don’t build a startup for money, join a startup …