The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: August, 2008

Ideas to Toss: Virtual Community Watch. Preserving Earth

There was sometime back when was doing a rough math on how many live camera streams there are. There are some that are pointed towards the “habitat” of the Loch Ness Monster, there are enough live traffic camera, and plenty of them pointed towards a birds nest or so. And if you take the example [...]

Speed is Important. Accuracy is Crucial.

Startup Entrepreneurs are oodles of Fun to work with. Perhaps its that drive within them to change things, and the paranoia of taking on a bigger industry which adds to all that. As hectic as it could be, its nothing short of exhilarating – I seem to be gasping for breathe during the slow times [...]

Ask Vijay: From Employee to Entrepreneur. How?

Question: I am interested in starting my own venture and have been doing the groundwork for it. I currently work for a company, but would like to do the pilot run while still holding my day job and as the venture stabilizes, take the plunge fulltime. What would you suggest? Dear X, There are a [...]

Starting off: The Incremental and the Iterative Way.

I love the weekends. Especially the ones where you pretty much meet people after people, and get to see the world through a different set of eyes and perspectives. Always loved that. So there goes the past weekend, which has just about been the most amazing weekend ever – after a really really long time, [...]