The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Category: humor

Ideas to Toss: Alternative Captcha?

Main Entry: Captcha Function: Verb Date: Quite recently. 1a. The modern way of torturing a poor netcitizen with the repeated function of eye squinting. I’m sure all of you know what a captcha image is right? Well, for the uninitiated, its essentially those skewed letters which form letters of strings of numbers, that you have [...]

An Entrepreneur’s Diary: Getting Personal.

I usually avoid mixing my personal emotions and sentiments into what is supposed to be an alternative lifestyle. But I realize that I am probably avoiding the one topic that comes much closer to home for most entrepreneurs. As much we do talk about the fact that India is rising, India is racing, or the [...]

An Entrepreneur’s Diary: Getting Personal.

I usually avoid mixing my personal emotions and sentiments into what is supposed to be an alternative lifestyle. But I realize that I am probably avoiding the one topic that comes much closer to home for most entrepreneurs. As much we do talk about the fact that India is rising, India is racing, or the [...]

Startups, Funding and the Dating Game.

The “romantic” move of an average indian male seems to be that of him swinging in the foot board of a moving bus (where he is clearly warned not to travel on) and catch the corner of the eye of a girl he’s been tracking, timing and following for days. I somehow think that this [...]

Free + Free + Free = ?

“Build the traction and let’s think about the revenue stream later”, they say. Another variant of the same thought is the often heard “Get as many eyeballs as possible and then you can figure out the business model”. How, I ask? Most of the folks who do know me personally will tell you that I [...]

The Chronicles of the ‘Definitive Coder’: The beginning

I think this blog needs a spruce of humor waiting to be laced into it. Dontcha agree? Well, I do. And that’s all what matters I have a couple of very interesting characters in my life. Some I can decide to stay away from, but there are some others who are around just like the [...]

The Chronicles of the ‘Definitive Coder’: The beginning

I think this blog needs a spruce of humor waiting to be laced into it. Dontcha agree? Well, I do. And that’s all what matters I have a couple of very interesting characters in my life. Some I can decide to stay away from, but there are some others who are around just like the [...]