Startup Saturday Delhi – Request for Demos
To help the Indian Startup Ecosystem in some small way, we’re going to be involved in setting up the Delhi chapter of Startup Saturday which is a part of HeadStart. We’d like to use this forum to help startups in the Delhi/NCR region showcase their products to a community of peers, media, and investors. If […]
Skin in the Game
I was reading an interesting post on Gaurav’s blog about founders of startups taking significant paycuts when raising funding from VCs. i was going to post a comment but am having some trouble connecting to Gaurav’s blog. VCs in India are applying what they’ve learned operating in the US and Europe to an economy and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Venture Voice Startup Workshop Part I
Greg and the team at Venture Voice have just put up, episode #36 of the Venture Voice podcast. This episode focuses on the Venture Voice workshop which I had mentioned here. I mentioned to Greg that he should consider having similar workshops in other cities. I’m sure people all over would really enjoy and appreciate […]