The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Category: Ideas to Toss

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 [...]

What Yahoo Should Possibly Go After. Part I

So I know that there are a gazillion guys out there in the whole wide world, who have given “open” advise to Yahoo as to what they should do. I am neither an expert, nor am vested into the company to have such generosity towards them A friend of mine and I, over some conversations [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Ideas to Toss: Beacon Unplugged.

Social Networks are the way to the future. Ah, I can see people getting ready with pitchforks to nail me to the wall, but lets hear this out. There is this basic ideology. The paradox of the masses. Whenever at any given network the number of members become too huge, the system starts to break [...]

Ideas are Immortal. Let’s Recycle.

There is nothing new under the sun. Nothing Whatsoever. Ideas are just evolved from one form to another to adapt and wear a new dress. I often used to quote the phrase that “Ideas are worth nothing. Implementation is all that matters”. Its true, but it also frustrates a lot of people who think they [...]

Ideas are Immortal. Let’s Recycle.

There is nothing new under the sun. Nothing Whatsoever. Ideas are just evolved from one form to another to adapt and wear a new dress. I often used to quote the phrase that “Ideas are worth nothing. Implementation is all that matters”. Its true, but it also frustrates a lot of people who think they [...]

Ideas to Toss: Professional UGC.

Professional User-Generated Content. You think its Oxymoronic? Think again. Let me cite to you two examples. Rocketboom, and ZeFrank. I dont think Frank is doing the show anymore, but Rocketboom is essentially a low-budget, five minute clip which basically is one of those “tequila shot” videos, giving you a summary of everything thats going on [...]