Archive for the ‘startups’ Category

Wanna be one of the top 25 emerging companies?

April 23rd, 2009 by Prateek Dayal 4

Here is a mail I received from The Smart Techie magazine, that can help you get there. Remember that this is the same company that organizes the startup city event every year.

Dear Sir/Madam.,

How are you doing?

Greetings from The Smarttechie-SiliconIndia.

The May 2009 edition of The SmartTechie will be on the top [...]

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Entrepreneurship in hard times by Dr. Kanwal Rekhi

March 15th, 2009 by Prateek Dayal 0

A few days back I received an email from NSRCEL about a talk by Kanwal Rekhi on entrepreneurship. I heard about Dr. Rekhi first when I did my internship in IIT Bombay a few years back. Dr Rekhi is an IITB alumnus and has donated significant amount of money to IIT Bombay and started KReSIT [...]

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Proto.in from the eyes of a presenter

July 21st, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 5

Nithya and I attended proto.in, the startup event on 18th and 19th July. It was a very interesting experience. A lot of things I loved .. a lot of things that I found very wierd :)
However before I begin, I would like to mention that the organizing team works very hard at making this event [...]

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10 things only a startup experience can teach you

June 25th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 5

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

June 23rd, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 2

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

June 17th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 4

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

June 14th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 13

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!

June 7th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 11

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!

June 4th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 12

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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From Moonlighting to Fulltime on your startup

May 27th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 8

Most entrepreneurs I know started working on their idea on weekends and nights while still holding their day job. This gives them enough time to understand the idea, validate it with a beta launch and then see if they can make it big or not. Once they are reasonably certain that the idea is good [...]

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