Prateek Dayal

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! addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prateekdayal.net%2F2009%2F10%2F09%2Fattending-barcamp-mumbai-6-on-oct-11-2009%2F’; addthis_title = ‘Attending+Barcamp+Mumbai+6+on+Oct+11+2009′; addthis_pub = ‘prateek’; Popularity: 21% [?]

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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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Last few weeks, I have had a few of my relatives call me up and ask me to help them out figure reservations on some travel sites. These are well known (and well funded) sites like cleartrip and makemytrip so one would expect them to be super easy to use and book. However I was [...]

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Just found out this awesome tool called scribfire which lets you add blog posts using firefox and I am making this post using it! Lately I have been trying out more firefox plugins that help me minimize context switch while working and so far I have found twitter fox quite helpful. Ofcourse its helpful only [...]

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Dear HSBC Credit Card Division, While I appreciate your attempt to flatter and impress the platinum card holders, I would request you to stop printing those fat booklets that you send with each card. In fact if you can’t do that, atleast don’t reprint the same garbage and send it with add on cards. If [...]

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Last couple of months I have been extremely busy with Muziboo work, attending conferences like TES and PAN IIT and also doing some bit  of consulting work.  I therefore could not blog all that much. However I now plan to get back to regular blogging and blog atleast a couple of times a month. However [...]

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