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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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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 …
I am not bragging but i am not happy with our education system. I was out on a recruitment drive 2 weeks back in a so called tier 1 engineering college in Bangalore, India. I expected these final year computer science students to answer these below mentioned questions on web technology but unfortunately most of …
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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 …
Searching “contributing to open source” throws About 30,100,000 results (0.56 seconds) Now the real question is being an Open Source evangelist, what/how should one proceed when talking about same? I am still from Old school & believe contribution to Open Source comes from inside hence: 1. Telling someone to use Open Source because its virus free …
I have been asked several times about community building. For a start, the following points form the basis for any tech community. Passionate Leader: To build a good community it is essential to have a passionate leader with strong temperament. The leader must be duly motivated, ready to accept suggestions and advise accordingly. The leader …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …