The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

How do you Measure a Startup?

For the longest time, people used to postpone the act, art or call it science of putting some numbers to a company to the point when it was time to raise funds – mostly in the growth stage, or in the exit stage. We all know that the numbers associated with a startup during the [...]

Ideas to Toss: Professional UGC.

Professional User-Generated Content. You think its Oxymoronic? Think again. Let me cite to you two examples. Rocketboom, and ZeFrank. I dont think Frank is doing the show anymore, but Rocketboom is essentially a low-budget, five minute clip which basically is one of those “tequila shot” videos, giving you a summary of everything thats going on [...]

Ask Vijay: Starting an Educational Venture.

I get a lot of mails from folks looking for answers to various things. For the consumption and benefit of the masses, I’ll post some of them here – ofcourse after protecting the identity of the person Dear Vijay, As a quick intro i am senior IT professional at Pune and i have been trying [...]