Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

When you are in love with competitor’s product

In startup world, we expect entrepreneur to be obsessed with his/her own products or offering. But what does it mean when you are falling in love with your competitor’s product? No, I am not talking about phones here, but I … Continue reading

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Bootstrap: Prototype before you make it

I am 99.99% sure that you would go and build a prototype ( can be a paper sketch) before you actually go and build a real product. Here is a good piece of article which covers some tools which can … Continue reading

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Business Social Media Benchmark study 2009

If you are working on your strategy to reach upto maximum number of users and increase your customer base, you might want to read this recent study conducted by Business.com on Social Media. It tries to give answers to some … Continue reading

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Bringing Startup School in Seattle

I have always been a firm believer in making community around more stronger, because of very simple reason. When you make community strong, you as part of the community get stronger. Whether its about increasing computer literacy amongst the kid … Continue reading

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Why to prepare yourself even if you don’t need to raise capital

I was participating sometime recently in an startup forum and there was usual debate on how to best raise the venture capital or any angel investment and then discussion diverged into one should raise it only when they need it. … Continue reading

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Naked Truth conversation

Couple of days back i got to know about a Seattle meet up for entrepreneurs called Naked Truth from Fred’s blog post. I could not get to attend this event as there was a huge waiting list (over 500 ) … Continue reading

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How to approach venture capitalist.

No matter who you are and what you want to accomplish, your relationships are going to play important role in your life. This is particularly very very important for startups as they are trying to create ‘something’ out of nothing. … Continue reading

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What is in a name…

I had a good discussion this morning with one of my friend who has just completed some course from IIM Bangalore and looking forward to start of her own. In this discussion she shared name of her planned venture with … Continue reading

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Phases in Leadership

Leaders often always go through adverse situations charting uncharted terrirotories before they get recognized as a ‘Leaders’. One who is on the leadership path is percieved very differently from rest of the mass depending on which phase of leadership he/she is in. … Continue reading

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You cant sell same thing to everyone in same way

NYtimes published this article heading ‘In Developing Countries, Web Grows Without Profit’ couple of days back on internet, where the likes of Youtube & Veoh services talked about huge investments they had made for certain geographical location ( because people use … Continue reading

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