Posts Tagged ‘startup’

From Moonlighting to Fulltime on your startup

May 27th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

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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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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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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