The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Month: August, 2009

Is Micro-Funding a New Trend to Come?

A lot of folks seem to be very curious as to what I am working on, since my stepping back from Proto.in. Well, quite a bit actually and on some rather serious stuff. Serious as cash, infact. One of the major concerns that has been on my mind is the scarcity of capital in this [...]

The Best of What You are.

Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers” talks about a rather interesting theory to becoming an expert. 10,000 hours. The theory is that if you spend 10,000 hours in developing a skill, by the end of it, you’d be an expert in it. There is common perception that startups are entities who are low on resources, [...]

The Case for Startups – The Prelude.

Over the past three years, it has been quite a journey interacting with startups, some of the key stakeholders and in a lot of ways understanding some of the constraints that we are facing in building up this landscape. There is undoubtedly a lot of enthusiasm, an unparalleled momentum within the community and daring spirits [...]

Small is Beautiful?

I am an entrepreneur. And the first thing you develop as part of being an entrepreneur is to start picking up patterns of directions people are moving in, and either do a mental math or just walk on the opposite direction of the flow and see whats it that people are totally missing. Usually there [...]