Category: Entrepreneurship
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Startup Weekend NYC Roundup
This past weekend was one of the best weekends I’ve ever had. It was a little over 50 hours of intense execution by 150 people dedicated to turning ideas into businesses by the end of the weekend. Taking something from the idea stage to launching it with a business model, an investor pitch, and a…
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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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Startup Saturday Delhi – December 13th, 2008
Delhi’s first installment of Startup Saturday is scheduled for the 13th of December 2008. The event will be held from 2pm till 6pm at the American Center, New Delhi. We’re very excited to be working with the gracious team at the American Center to help add a little something to the burgeoning entrepreneurial community in…