The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

The Law of Startups.

I think I have figured something. It goes something like this. Markets and Companies are neither created nor destroyed. They just transform from one form to the another. I’ll give you some examples. Amazon.com when it started in 95 was a very ambitious project. A few years later, they were raking in 30million dollars as [...]

Build to Last: Follow the Old Fashioned way.

During a recent flight trip, I was mulling over what it would possibly take to build a company that lasts. I donno, call me weird or plan simple narcissistic, but I’d like to build a company that is around till I am, or even beyond. I meet plenty of folks, especially within the entrepreneurial community [...]

Build to Last: The Goldrush Strategy – Avoid it.

Up until a couple of years ago, the concept of “First movers’ advantage” had some credit to it – atleast in the web world since it was quite nascent. Lately more and more folks are realizing, and rightly so, that whatever happened in the PC Platform, is repeating itself in the web world. If you [...]

The Indian-European Connection… And even the Valley.

Seems like we are not the only set of folks who are wanting to fix the problems we see around us and build a “sustainable” atmosphere around us. There is a post by Ryan who runs FOWA taking a stance against the Web Mission effort that is getting organized by the UK Government and quite [...]