Tag: Business
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Startup Saturday Delhi Update
A quick update on Startup Saturday. Startup Saturday Delhi is going to be hosted by the American Center on the 13th of December 2008. Startups are encouraged to fill out the demo form. Startups, investors, media, and other individuals interested in attending Startup Saturday are requested to fill out the registration form. Security will be…
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Venture Fund Economics
A great post by Fred Wilson titled “Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns“. Do take a look if you’re even remotely interested/involved in a startup.
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Joining an Early Stage Startup or Joining “The Manâ€
Joining or doing a startup is not for everyone. It doesn’t matter whether you are in the US, China, the UK, France, or India. It takes a certain amount of energy, self-discipline, determination, creativity and faith to be able to survive in a startup. Most of all, it takes an incredibly strong constitution to deal…
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Entrepreneurship and Open Source Software Charity?
Rajiv Poodar has a great post on Wireless Utopia: Open Source and Charity about his frustration in explaining open source business models to others in Bangalore. It’s not a problem specific to Bangalore, though. Charity is a dirty word in business circles. Free Open Source Software is considered charity. Therefore FOSS == Dirty. Free Software…
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Another Cog in the Wheel
Here’s a great post on Amit Ranjan’s personal blog about how large technology and outsourcing companies in India are turning the cream of the crop engineers into just more cogs in their wheels. I worked at a very large Wall Street firm for a few years and then I’ve worked at small companies (small in…