The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: December, 2008

The Mis-understood Co-Founder.

For quite sometime, I have been part of conversations that usually involved of this mythical creature called the “Co-Founder”. If you would take the liberty to head to one of the startup discussion groups, sooner or later someone would bring up the conversation as to how hard it is to find a co-founder for his [...]

The Essentials of a “Pitch”

1. The Ability to Connect If the first four words arent able to convince me that this is a product or service that would interest me, the pitch has lost its audience right away. 2. Short and Conclusive. Anything more than three lines to explain what it does, and then pause to see if there [...]

PitchCamp! Coming This January @ Proto.in

Have you ever wondered how to impress an inscrutable Venture Capitalist, convince a doubting journalist or perfect the guaranteed door opener for a partner? Then this workshop is for you. Learn the inside scoop on how VC’s, corporate partners and journalists think. Hear tips on how you can compellingly explain your business to each audience—whether [...]

When We Know What We Want.

This world is supposed to be full of systems, and systems that carry inefficiencies. Entrepreneurs are in my dictionary, those that can look at those systems – ticking and clicking, and notice where and how the systems can be improved. Some are driven by their hearts and start NGOs, and others get all logical and [...]