Archive for June, 2008
10 things only a startup experience can teach you
I have written about why do a startup and also about life in the garage and both the posts have a recognizable negative tone. However startups are pretty interesting and generally a great learning experience. I therefore thought of writing a post on what doing a startup can teach you that you cannot easily learn […]
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Getting Real and avoiding useless features
Getting Real is one of my favorite books on writing software and I love reading it every now and then. However when it comes to real projects, one is very likely to skip the advice given in that book. Its very easy to overbuild a product especially if you love coding. I have seen this […]
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Relating to real life entrepreneurship
I had been thinking of writing this post for a long time now but never really got around to writing it. Partly, I wanted to know how some other people feel about this. I think it was good to have a discussion with Prof. Suresh yesterday at IIM Bangalore about these […]
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How to stay productive while working out of home
I must accept that working out of home is an art and I have been trying to master it ever since I quit my job last year. When you work out of home, you end up saving a lot of travel time and traffic stress but there are a lot more opportunities to waste time […]
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Why are you doing a startup!
I have been doing Muziboo for about a year now and it has certainly been one of the greatest learning experience of my life. I have learnt a lot, met a lot of interesting people and generally had an exciting time. But still sometimes late in the night when I am done coding something up, […]
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mGinger spams blindly. Sucks!
mGinger is a well funded startup ($2M) that helps you in freeing up your mobile bills and get exciting deals in on your mobile. From what I understand, they basically pay you to receive ads on your mobile. Whether this is a neat idea or not is debatable and we will debate it later. What […]
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