Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’

Entrepreneurship in hard times by Dr. Kanwal Rekhi

March 15th, 2009 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

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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Relating to real life entrepreneurship

June 17th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

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 issues. So here it [...]

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Why are you doing a startup!

June 7th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

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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Who is the best critique for your startup?

May 21st, 2008 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

Disclaimer: The views expressed here are solely mine and not of my company Muziboo. However since I own half of Muziboo ….. :) You are working hard on your startup and you meet tons of new people every week and tell them about your startup. If you are lucky, probably 1% of them would love [...]

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How to get noticed by press

May 14th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

For an early stage startup, it is very important to be recognized by the press. Word of mouth is a neat way of spreading but it works well only after you have reached a critical mass. In a country like India, people trust  newspapers and magazines a lot. Once you are on a newspaper, your [...]

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Value Creation v/s Value Creation

May 6th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

This may seem like a funny topic for a blog post. The idea is not to come up with a  title that draws attention (I hope it does) but to write about an inherent dilemma that lot of bootstrappers go through. I go through it and I know a few other people go through it. [...]

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Starting up! How We started Muziboo.com

April 18th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

*This is crossposted from Muziboo.com Blog. The only thing not true anymore is that I am not fulltime into Muziboo (as in no consulting on the side). The original post can found here Nithya and I started Muziboo.com around July 2007 and have been running it since then. I have been hacking away to keep [...]

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