The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: April, 2009

Jumping the Long Tail

In an ideal world, just about anyone can create. But is that really an ideal world? About two years ago, while blogs were being touted as the biggest thing to ever hit the planet, apart from all those mystery meteors in the sci-fi movies, what was interesting was to note the number of readers that [...]

Setting Expectations For the Future of Computing.

The experts in Marketing would usually say that, marketing, pricing, the sales process, and the customer satisfaction that follows that can all be related with a simple equation. Satisfaction = Reality – Expectations. (Thanks!) And they would be right. I remember a call from my dad’s friend about a year ago, to come over to [...]

Open Wide the Indian Boundaries

If you are one who has traded in the Stock Market and had anyone sensible enough to teach you the ropes, the first rule is that when everything starts to drop, its a good time to buy. The rule is simple. When everyone is heading one direction, there is probably – and with very high [...]

Getting to the Heart of it.

I am reading the transcript of the conversations held by the Union Square Ventures, and reading a quote by Sir Ken Robinson (who is now fairly well known in the education circles for his TED Talk). In the talk, he quotes a note from the book “The Empty Space” by Peter Brooke. In a way [...]

Outlook + Google Calendar + Nokia Calendar = Being on Schedule.

Once life starts picking up the biggest problem for me seems to be managing time, and most of all trying to avoid the moments when I end up cross booking the time slot for two people – yep, that isnt an easy situation to get out of. When I am at home, and during weekends, [...]

Fearing the State of Not Climbing

There are quite a bit of people that I come across, good and very good people who sometimes have this fear of not being in the ladder. They are great with startups, but are afraid of being left behind in the startup world and constantly keep looking over the shoulder to move up to becoming [...]