The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: May, 2008

On I.T Magazine: Avoiding Startup Hiccups.

Actually this would be my third or fourth time being quoted extensively in an article in this magazine. Just as the Startup community is growing, there is also a lot of affiliated media that is growing along with them – I.T Magazine, Cybermedia’s Dare, Smarttechie, all are magazine’s looking to cater to the “entrepreneurial” kind [...]

Questions to Ask your Investor.

The truth of the situation is that there is way too much capital chasing too few good deals. So, If there was ever a time when you could be picky and be specific about wanting the best director and investor onboard, this would be it. In an attempt to ensure that you dont come off [...]

Rising In the Shadows of the Gaming Gods.

It was a world before the Amazon EC3 was available. Google needed servers and all they could lay their hands on were cheap and commodity hardware. In the true spirit of engineering, what came about was the solution of clustering all of them together to provide the same level of performance and efficiency that expensive [...]

Who is Your Favorite VC?

By now, most of you would have come across quite a few investors from the VC community,here and there. You might have been caught up with them over coffee, or run a deal through them. So here’s the question. If you had to do an evaluation and mention a venture capital firm that comes at [...]

Ask Vijay: “My Team Member Wants a Long Leave.”

Question: How do I deal with it, if my team member suddenly comes up to me and asks for a long leave since she is expecting and also wouldnt be able to put in regular hours like the others? It seems to be a baby boom season. Quite a lot of people in circles I [...]

Ask Vijay: “My Team Member Wants a Long Leave.”

Question: How do I deal with it, if my team member suddenly comes up to me and asks for a long leave since she is expecting and also wouldnt be able to put in regular hours like the others? It seems to be a baby boom season. Quite a lot of people in circles I [...]

ABCD: The Issue of the Transition Generation.

ABCD – American Born Confused Desi. That’s what they’d call an individual whose parents are originally from India, but probably gave birth to, and raised a son or daughter in the American Soil. The kid probably grew up with nothing more than strong dose of american culture, idealism and the values which grow with interaction [...]

Befriend an Investor.

When should you go meet an investor, say hello and buy him a cup of coffee? Anytime, and hopefully at a time when you arent bootstrapping a company. An entrepreneur in residence today asked me how come most companies in the valley, and even a few companies here in India manage to raise millions of [...]

The Addictive Touch.

About a year back, when I was going around trying to pick a phone, I decided that eventually I’d head the PDA way, so it was time to get a smartphone. It happened, and as much as i was very uncomfortable about the “lets poke into the screen to type” mechanism at first, slowly started [...]

If You are a Mobile Developer.

I mean someone who develops for the Mobile Platform, not a developer who is always on the move Well, there are a few platforms that you might be interested to play around with, if you have an interest for embedded systems, and especially the mobile platform. Here it goes: MobiSy: Rich Applications for your Mobile. [...]