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 …