The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Category: Entrepreneurship

The Future of Living: How 3G Could Help.

3G. WiMAX. There is an inevitable showdown waiting on that camp. That’s probably also the reason why the deployments of WiMAX hasnt picked up by much. If you ask me, there is credit to deploying the 3G – or a network that is based on the telecom network. Why? Reliability. Ever picked up a landline [...]

What Yahoo Should Possibly Go After. Part II

This is a continuation to a Post that I had written Earlier. “Yahoo could emerge with an edge, if they leapfrog into other verticals following the same web-based advertisement network.” For a company which has entrenched itself in the media space, managing advertisements networks i probably the holy grail. I wouldnt recommend that Yahoo give [...]

The Startup WorkForce : A Proposal to the Community.

This is a wonderful time to be starting up. You will come across very few people who will give comparisons to all the benefits they get working for big corporates. Its one such time. Hiring will be slightly easier, and retaining them will be even more easier. Even in the midst of all that, it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]