I was part of the panel discssion at the xtremestartups event on Sunday and one of the topics we discussed was funding a startup by consulting on the side. I strongly believe in two things – bootstrapping and working full-time on one’s startup – but there are real costs involved in starting up that one [...]
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When we started Muziboo two years back, we had no idea how much money was needed to get a company off the ground. Both Nithya and I had our day jobs and we never consciously worked out the finances. We started to think about money only when we went full-time and eventually went broke. Like [...]
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Since I started working on Muziboo, I have been a big fan of release early, release often philosophy. We launched Muziboo one month after getting the idea with very basic functionality and a very simple design. Since then, we have been listening to our users and continuously improving it. However I have to accept that [...]
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Everyone agrees that the hardest part for a startup is to get the early set of enthusiastic users. We got our first set of really enthusiastic users and evangelists from Barcamp Bangalore 5th edition (BCB5). They gave us tons of good feedback, blogged about us, turned into passionate users and got more passionate users. Its [...]
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I have recently made some changes to the blog and my site. I have moved my blog from prateekdayal.net/blog to prateekdayal.net. I had plans of making a real website but I finally accepted that I will never have the time or motivation to do so. I have also installed a new (less jazzier) theme. Even [...]
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I am the co-founder and Chief Hacker of Muziboo.com. In this blog you can read my thoughts on entrepreneurship and other things that interest me
