You are replaceable if what you do is replicable : Musings on software...
In professional life no matter what you do, you are replaceable if what you do is replicable. This is more evident in software product development companies as access to to rock star engineers (i.e....
View ArticleMere paas maa hai : Your mother is your only Startup supporter
When everybody would have left you alone while you keep ideating/iterating/pivoting/trying/winning/loosing your startup, only one person would stand for you : Your Mother You can proudly say ‘mere paas...
View ArticleWant to be the next Sanjeev Bikhchandani ? Stop building job portals. Build...
Paras Chopra of “Visual Website Optimizer” wrote a top-kick blog post recently on whats-wrong-with-indian-startup-scene, go read that here...
View ArticleAs a Startup, you can still say ‘No’ to your customer if
Customer acquisition and development is critical task for a Startup. With limited budget-time-resource, it is almost impossible to let go even 1 single customer. As a Startup you have hardly any room...
View ArticleExperts later, Connectors first & always
If you are starting up/started up, the common confusion a first time entrepreneur goes through is ‘validation of everything (s)he does’ like 1. Will this work? 2. Is there enough customers to buy my...
View ArticleStarting-up is non-social, Started-up is very non-social. Startup+ is social
Your Startup vision is so large & bright, it will cut you off from social engagements. For you everything has to be measured, time well spent and productive. But social engagements are not about...
View ArticlePromises of an entrepreneur
Having tried-failed-tried, small success & lot still to do, I know how hard an entrepreneur’s life. I have been helped by many people who loved what we @ my startup tried, some questioned, some...
View ArticleStartup : If you don’t have competitors, you have more chances of failure!
The first question you hear as a Startup ‘what if your competitors starts doing what you do’. Many Startup will say ‘we don’t have competitors or we are first in the market or we have X innovation...
View ArticleWhy #unpluggd is a must go! What I got from UnPluggd?
During my early years of bootstrapping, I was literally the hidden some guy building a startup called ‘Ayojak’, two event organizer came forward to use Ayojak : ClubHack and UnPluggd. I had absolutely...
View ArticleMy 2012 : The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The year 2012 started with 2nd year away from family : wife & kids are away in Odisha. I am in Pune Got childhood best friend backing the company with some fund Along with my team, I did event...
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