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Tag: Startup

  • Things-To-Do When Rolling Your Own Startup

    Most people advising startups focus on critical points like the business model, revenue model, and team. Remember, I said “critical” but I’m going to skip over them since so many people already discuss them. In this post, I’m going to present a straight-forward check-list of other, very important things to do when rolling your own…

  • 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…

  • A Passage to India

    Nusair asked that I start blogging about my experience in India over the next few weeks. I have toyed with the idea of doing a podcast and/or blog of my travels and of the whole process of doing a startup. I arrived in India in the beginning of last week. I’m here to determine what…

  • Joining an Early Stage Startup or Joining “The Man”

    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…