The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: September, 2008

What Yahoo Should Possibly Go After. Part I

So I know that there are a gazillion guys out there in the whole wide world, who have given “open” advise to Yahoo as to what they should do. I am neither an expert, nor am vested into the company to have such generosity towards them A friend of mine and I, over some conversations [...]

The “Chennai” City Wall Project.

You must know by now that we get involved in quite a bit of work related to the city. I believe that a city is a representation, collection and expression of the people living in it. If you walk into a city and cannot hear the voices, and expressions of its people, the city … [...]

The Irony in the Media World.

If there is one vertical that you MUST follow if you want to see some drastic changes happening, its essentially the media world. The way “media” is distributed, consumed and monetized is going to such drastic morphism that its hard to predict how its going to look like at the end. Like all things natural, [...]

Ideas to Toss: Energy Storage FAT?

It’s quite possible that I am just plain simply crazy, but if you bear with me and try to understand how my brain and thought process works, I think there is most certainly an idea here. So I was sitting through a Sustainability Conference in IIT Madras today and there was one talk on Energy [...]

What Do Startups Need?

Seems like that’s the kind of question a lot of companies which are looking to support, nurture and grow alongside Startups are asking themselves these days. I’m invited to be part of a fairly small panel that is to discuss on this very topic tomorrow in Bangalore in a short meetup that Sun Microsystems is [...]

A Lesson to Learn. Reflecting on the Mirror of Global Startups.

My mentor oft used to say that everyone had something to teach us. It was all a matter of either what you should do, or what you should never do. If you look back at everyone in your life, that’d probably quite nicely fit the bill. If you are at all interested in Startups, or [...]