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Entrepreneurship

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 be [...]

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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 as [...]

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With google coming out with it’s speech-to-text app for iPhone, there is something there for not-so-great bloggers too. Something that they should be really happy about.

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There are only two ways to market your product. Either you build a product that is so brilliant that it PULLS the customers; or you build a strategy to PUSH your product to the masses.

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Eureka is a IIT-Bombay entrepreneurship cell effort, which has been organizing this b-plan event for more than the last 10 years, and has been a strong pillar in fostering entrepreneurship in India.

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Yeah, you heard it. Finally, orkut has launched a few selected apps for the general public. It’s been said that the apps are currently available to a few selected users only (maybe developers only, or GOD knows who are the chosen ones), and Orkut needs to first test the stability of the OpenSocial API on [...]

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I was over at Rashmi Sinha’s (of the slideshare.net fame) weblog and there is a very interesting article that she has written about the possibility of wordpress becoming a social networking platform, and comparable to Facebook.
It’s a must read really. Go checkout the blog entry, and also do some more reading at further links in [...]

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I happened to reach Sita’s blog over at Binary Day, and fortunately (or unfortunately) to this article about Seed Funding over there.
It’s such a pity that there aren’t enough VCs or firms that are ready to fund ideas, judging only by the ideas, the people and the motivation. Why the need of business plans [...]

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This one’s good…really good I say. Try and think of the major driving force behind entrepreneurship – as to why you want to be an entrepreneur. Is it the money, fame, freedom, or anything else. What comes to my mind is what I can relate to with this quote.

“There is only one way [...]

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Web 2.0 is not just a version of the web anymore. It has become a platform for quick-money-on-the-go. Have an idea, will earn millions.
The amount of money in a web-2.0 venture can be made out by these quick facts – Facebook is worth $15 billion, Feedburner a $100 million, Youtube a cool $1.65 billion, and [...]

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