The Startup Guy

Perspectives of an Entrepreneur from the Indian Startup Trenches.

Category: Open Source Innovation

The Indian Innovation Roadmap: Disclosed

Its been a while since I’ve written here. I am not going to apologize for it. The reason being simple. I once by accident went back a year and on what I “was” thinking, and i realized how fast the space of startups, innovation and clarity was emerging. I am not even seeing the evolution [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

A Paranoid Entry: Albert Einstein the Clerk.

Well, for those of you who aren’t aware, as part of the work in the Indian Institute of Technology, we file a lot of patents every year. It used to be the case that faculty members who are working on something would file for a patent without even cross-referencing what is already out there and [...]

If You are a Mobile Developer.

I mean someone who develops for the Mobile Platform, not a developer who is always on the move Well, there are a few platforms that you might be interested to play around with, if you have an interest for embedded systems, and especially the mobile platform. Here it goes: MobiSy: Rich Applications for your Mobile. [...]