Posts Tagged ‘entrepreneurship’

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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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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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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Who is the best critique for your startup?

May 21st, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 29

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 your [...]

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How to get noticed by press

May 14th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal 5

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 2

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 7

*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 the [...]

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