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10 things only a startup experience can teach you
I have written about why do a startup and also about life in the garage and both the posts have a recognizable negative tone. However startups are pretty interesting and generally a great learning experience. I therefore thought of writing a post on what doing a startup can teach you that you cannot easily learn […]
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Getting Real and avoiding useless features
Getting Real is one of my favorite books on writing software and I love reading it every now and then. However when it comes to real projects, one is very likely to skip the advice given in that book. Its very easy to overbuild a product especially if you love coding. I have seen this […]
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Relating to real life entrepreneurship
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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How to stay productive while working out of home
I must accept that working out of home is an art and I have been trying to master it ever since I quit my job last year. When you work out of home, you end up saving a lot of travel time and traffic stress but there are a lot more opportunities to waste time […]
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Why are you doing a startup!
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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mGinger spams blindly. Sucks!
mGinger is a well funded startup ($2M) that helps you in freeing up your mobile bills and get exciting deals in on your mobile. From what I understand, they basically pay you to receive ads on your mobile. Whether this is a neat idea or not is debatable and we will debate it later. What […]
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Cerebrate.in : An event not to be missed .. but you will!
And not just once. Year after year you will miss this event :)
I met a fellow blogger today and we were talking about the big bloggers of India and Kiruba Shankar’s name came up in the discussion. I had not visited his blog in a long time and decided to take a look. I found […]
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From Moonlighting to Fulltime on your startup
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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Startup City Bangalore
This is more of a … look at the pictures .. they tell the story … post :)
We went to the much awaited (or rather publicized) startup city today. We reached around noon and found a lot of crowd there. The event looked like a trade fair and there were banners and balloons all over […]
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Who is the best critique for your startup?
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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