The Startup Guy

What are the big Internet Giants, Google / Yahoo / MSN thinking? What will drive the next generation of web applications? Where can you perhaps make your millions? Coming up Soon.

So, The Iphone came, and is kinda sinking into oblivion – atleast with their current generation. I am sure they will plan out a better release and market capture strategy with their next version, but I doubt they will be able to play the hype-game all over again. But then,We are talking about Steve Jobs [...]

Well, Ladies and gentlemen, if we thought that we never would see India win a World cup in India in our lifetime, we were so wrong. We are, it seems, the new champions when it comes to Twenty 20 Cricket. I must say, it was an impressive display of determination, nerve-wrecking tension and success. Not [...]

A fair bit of Indian companies seem to carry the national flag colors, at somepoint in their logo. Is there a reason for that? Just ponderin’

The Indian movie industry has figured it out. It might sound sarcastic, but I am actually being serious here. The Indian movie industry has really figured out what the masses want to see, listen and cheer to. Anyone building or trying to do anything with the masses here, needs to take a hard and long [...]

For those who had asked about how incubation centres work, I believe the comments in the previous post would have helped. To summarize, an incubation centre supports an entrepreneur with an active advisory panel, infrastructure and with some financial assistance to help them jumpstart the process. That’s pretty much the gist of the matter. As [...]

It seems that at the rise of every economic cycle, old structures of the past do pop-up again. Incubators are a good example of that. They were around during the dotcom bubble and they are back now. I am not talking about India, where incubators are meant to be the last refuge for most entrepreneurs [...]

There is a verse in the bible that says, If Two people on Earth agree on something… it shall be done. Not one, two or five, but 17 people were out on a night – when there was an India-Pakistan match going on, to fix potholes. I couldn’t have been much more assured and confident [...]

I came across a post by Alok Mittal in the NASSCOM blog, where he strongly urges entrepreneurs and companies to think of their offerings in terms of scalability. He does share a fair bit of my thoughts as to what the roadblocks are. It’s a short, sweet and good read. I do love the closing [...]

Came across a blog post by a good friend, and blogger Kiruba Shankar, the Editor of Blognation India. This is what the post reads as: As the editor of a technology news blog, I consciously keep my ears to the ground to find out interesting news to report. I attend events like BarCamps, MobileMondays, Organize [...]