Category: Business
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Five-ish Team Building Pitfalls Faced By Startups in India
Building a team under the best of circumstances is difficult at best. As technology entrepreneurs, we will look for co-founders or senior management team members that have experience in engineering, sales/marketing, biz dev, management, fund raising and so the list goes on. In places like New York or Silicon Valley or London, it’s a bit…
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Seven Steps to Starting a Company in India
This is part I in a series of posts about issues faced by Teknatus Solutions Private Limited in India from 2007 – 2010. Being the first part, I’m going to look at the steps needed to get a business registered in India. I’ll examine the case of a foreign national/foreign company looking to setup an…
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Namaste India
In early 2007, we made a commitment to open our office in New Delhi, India and begin building a platform to help connect India’s unskilled labor force with the Indian middle and upper class that had a requirement for unskilled labor like nannies, cooks, maids, drivers and other domestic services. We finally opened our office…
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PubSubHubBub Subscriber Client Perl Module
I am looking for someone with intimate knowledge of the PubSubHubbub Protocol and Perl to implement a Perl module that uses a hub to provide updates from Google Reader Shared items. For example, I …
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Use Your (Yourls) Own URL Shortening Service with Perl
URL Shortening services like Bit.ly have been all the rage with the popularity of Twitter and other micro-blogging services. As some of us use Twitter quite a bit for sharing links to various sites and blog posts, we’re sending lots of traffic to people that isn’t easily identifiable beyond the URL shortening service being used.…