The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Rumor: Social Networking not working?

Disclaimer: These are just rumours. Tell me if they are true. 1. I’m hearing reports that a social networking site, one of the investments of Sequoia and ,the SN offering of reliance (Note: Update below) are both finding it hard to scale up and might face the inevitable very soon. Is it true? if it [...]

Making E-commerce Work in India.

There was this fabulous quote by the Executives of one of the major internet portals, must be either Rediff or Indiatimes, who mentioned that ‘E-commerce in India is nothing more than a payment gateway – as of now’. It’s a medium of payment, but the usage of the word “commerce” is a overkill for what [...]

Weekend Summary.

Phew, this has been another crazy weekend following the last. It was great to finally sleep in and wake up around noon today (sunday) and unwind with all the stress and lack of sleep that was quickly catching up. I was in bangalore this weekend for an official meet and it was fun to meet [...]