Prateek Dayal

I have been in Ho Chi Minh City for the last two weeks and I am hoping to document my experience in this and (hopefully) few more blog posts. Basically it all started when I met Lawrence Sinclair last month in Bangalore and we talked about Ruby on Rails and East Agile (his company in [...]

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Deepan has started a Facebook Developers Meetup Group and the first meet is happening on 7th March 2010. You can find the details on upcoming.
I will be giving a presentation on basics of Facebook Connect and a small tutorial on developing a simple application using FB Connect. This is the same talk that I gave [...]

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Facebook Connect is a powerful set of APIs for developers that lets users bring their identity and connections everywhere. – Facebook Connect Page at Facebook Developer site
In simple terms, Facebook Connect lets you provide a ‘Login with Facebook’ functionality on your website. Once users login with their Facebook credentials, you can help them post the [...]

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I have decided to take a break from startup related blogging and review a few gadgets that I bought in the recent past (and some services I used in last few months). Enjoy the posts.
The first one is a review of the Nokia 5800 xpress music phone that I got in August. I had an [...]

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I will be at BCM 6 on Oct 11 2009. If you are around, I would love to catch up. Please email me at prateek AT Muziboo dot com if you are planning to attend and wanna catch up. See you there!

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Nithya and I were at XtremeStartups’ Startup Morning in Bangalore on 24th May 2009.  We talked about Muziboo’s early days, our philosophy and our learnings. The discussion was moderated by Indus Khaitan and MVP Team captured the talk on video. Other speakers were Phanindra Sama of Redbus and Himanshu from LifeMojo. Here is the audio [...]

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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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The most common question that I get when I meet people is “How is Muziboo doing?”. My answer typically reflects reality, which is that Muziboo is doing fine but we still need one more year of solid effort to get ‘there’. If you ask me this question right now, I will also tell you that [...]

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