The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: November, 2007

Proto.in January Edition: Nominations Open

Ladies and Gentlemen, The finally awaited moment is here – well, atleast the first of it. The nominations are open for companies that do want to submit their products for evaluation, out of which 20 companies will present before an esteemed audience – the creme de la crop, the movers and the shakers of the [...]

Bangalore based Headstart.in

When we first laid down the groundwork for Proto, one of the things that I sincerely wished to see was more initiatives like Proto spring up, so that – for one, we’d strive to deliver more value to the entrepreneurs who need all the support they can, and hopefully we can move on to focus [...]

Opensocial Vs. Facebook. It’s apples to oranges.

Facebook is undoubtedly enjoying its fanbase, and with more and more people moving to facebook (even from networks such as Linkedin), it only strengthens the case. As of today it seems that Facebook has even gone after some of the popular bands to setup their pages in facebook so that profiles can be created as [...]

Opensocial Vs. Facebook. It’s apples to oranges.

Facebook is undoubtedly enjoying its fanbase, and with more and more people moving to facebook (even from networks such as Linkedin), it only strengthens the case. As of today it seems that Facebook has even gone after some of the popular bands to setup their pages in facebook so that profiles can be created as [...]

You are Too Young to Be Trying This.

The last time i heard such statements too frequently was when I was bootstrapping my first company, was verging on entrepreneurship as a lifestyle and all, and i was sixteen. It’s been more than a decade, and I am still hearing those voices in my life. This is not a post where we talk about [...]

The Gap in the Indian Innovation Ecosystem.

“There is a definite lack in the number of fundable ideas in the ecosystem. What we need is more incubation funds.” I am not sure if that’s so. Fundable ideas, in most cases denotes a team that is mature enough and has the market valuation and the credibility to be looked seriously by a VC [...]

What Amazon.com and Paypal Didn’t Do!

Two great companies run by great visionaries. Paypal and Amazon.com. One transpired to become the biggest bookstore the world has ever seen – yet. The other became the eCommerce backbone for most of the internet business that goes on around. All due credits and salutations aside, i do have somethings against these two companies. When [...]

What Amazon.com and Paypal Didn’t Do!

Two great companies run by great visionaries. Paypal and Amazon.com. One transpired to become the biggest bookstore the world has ever seen – yet. The other became the eCommerce backbone for most of the internet business that goes on around. All due credits and salutations aside, i do have somethings against these two companies. When [...]

How do you define India?

Well, I am travelling. Lately, i’ve also been on a mental journey, trying to figure out India’s position globally, in the past centuries and how we are shaping our future. This vacation is helping and aiding towards that journey of understanding the past and the present, making way for some understanding of the potential of [...]