Tag: Entrepreneurship
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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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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…
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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…
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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…