The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: February, 2008

Startups do fail. What’s New?

I am seeing a flurry of activity among the tech blogs who’ve caught on a interesting topic to latch onto. Failed startups. If you ask me, I am not sure what the big hoopla in this is about. Birds fly. Fishes Swim. Deals Fall through and Startups Fail. This is the natural order of things. [...]

Startups do fail. What’s New?

I am seeing a flurry of activity among the tech blogs who’ve caught on a interesting topic to latch onto. Failed startups. If you ask me, I am not sure what the big hoopla in this is about. Birds fly. Fishes Swim. Deals Fall through and Startups Fail. This is the natural order of things. [...]

Making Blog Posts Via MS Word ‘07

Whenever I came across the option of making a “new” document, I have seen the option to make a new blog post, but systematically ignored it fearing what it might throw on me in the name of a blog editor. On a whim, I clicked on it to see that it actually even allows for [...]

A Startup Issue: The Talent Crunch.

If you are a startup and are using one of the rare and well-known (oxymoronic?) platforms as your development platform, you’ll most certainly know what I am talking about. If you think I am talking about some strange and indeed rare platform like IRIX, or someone with the talent to write code in LISP, nope [...]

Becoming a Venture Capitalist.

Not Me. Not yet It was nice to catch up with some of my old contacts in Winterland Canada and what they were upto. I think I kinda hit the realization as to how many serial entrepreneurs there are out there (especially since a close friend who is 46 is starting off on his fifth [...]

Ideas to Toss: Does India need a Unified Directory?

I was thinking of this while I was sitting through a brainstorming meeting and there were heated debates on the monetization capabilities of local business search services such as what Google Local is doing. Well, there are arguments for and against it and for one, I dont believe that vertical silos of the same information [...]