Over the last weekend, I was reminded by my brother of things I was doing in 2009. Things that were – leaving my full-time job at a e-commerce startup, and starting a consulting / mobile app dev studio. It was the time, when Android was just a kid, and blackberry messenger was overly over-rated. Me [...]
The conversation X – I’m thinking of starting my own biz Y – Have you done all the market research..blah..blah.. X – I guess Y – What’s the plan X – Something like this…blah blah blah… Y – Holy s**t..this ain’t gonna work dude..this is pure stupidity…do you really not feel if this would have [...]
The old saying that “good engineers are hard to find” might be true, but even more difficult to find are good designers – especially designers who want to be part of something rather than just take up projects. I’ve been trying to find a good designer (one who has good thought process than just photoshop [...]
Yes, almost ! It’s been in the making for a long time now, and I’m happy that it has come to a state where we can open it for developers in a closed beta. When I left my previous company (www.picsquare.com) in late 2009, I had planned to spend time thinking about all the ideas [...]
Probably the most difficult of all questions that I’ve ever faced is when people ask “what business are you in ?”. While, it sounds as a pretty straight-forward and simple question, it belongs to the category of questions such as “truth of life” (which, many a saints have tried for ages to answer, yet it [...]
Yes..that’s right. While most people may or may not agree, the fact remains the same. People spend their life time finding love, believing in fairy tales that love happens while in reality it might (I say might here !) only be the infatuation / attraction that happens. The love is all upto you my friend. [...]
So what’s the point of having the term “Wannabe Entrepreneur” ?? Does it not fall into the category of not being an entrepreneur ?? Met a few guys the other day, and they introduced themselves as “Wannabe Entrepreneurs”. Well, even I used to use this fancy term till a few months back, and then I [...]
After about a year and 6 months at picsquare.com, I finally decide to move on. It had been a great experience working with all the folks there, and a tremendous gain in knowledge..not just from a technical perspective, but even from the business side of things in a startup (specially e-commerce). Right now, it will [...]
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I recently had a great opportunity to write something about startups at pluggd.in, and which I had to accept (I mean who lets such great opps to pass by :) ). So I wrote about some of the points that I realized one should ideally do a reality check about, before joining a startup. And [...]
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