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Investing in a Startup

I have always thought that investors had the easier end of the bargain. They had people coming to them to present their proposals, which they would evaluate based on their knowledge and accept or reject. All that changed since we put in place a...

January 29, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Grant, India, Investing, Investment, Startups, The Blueprints Club, Venture Capital 0 Comments

Finding your Co-founder

Last week we had a great Startups Club meet at Chennai. The topic of the meeting was ‘Finding your Co-founder’. We had a discussions about the importance of a co-founder, after which, we arrived at the customary game. As a part of the...

January 26, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Co-Founders, Entrepreneurship, Games, Learning, Perseverance, Startups, Startups Club 1 Comments

The Blueprints Club

For a good part of the last 6 months, we have been pondering over the absence of sufficient number of startups emerging out of Engineering Colleges. On one of our visits to VIT, Vellore; we decided to work along with VIT-TBI to have the...

January 19, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Engineering, Startups, The Blueprints Club, Vellore, VIT 0 Comments

On Glocal

I have heard this term Glocal often and have wondered what they mean by it. Think Global, build local! What do you really mean by that? So continuing from the last post I wrote; a phone got lost and we found it using iCloud. While iCloud is a...

January 15, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Global, Glocal, iCloud, Local, Lock 0 Comments

Having your sights on the goal!

So yesterday, my partner’s son had gone to an amusement park and his bag got misplaced. Worse the bag had his newly acquired iPhone. He was still at the amusement park when we came to know of this, and as you would expect it was shocking to...

January 14, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Goal, Startup, Target 0 Comments

We should thank Barack Obama for Crowd-funding!

So today, I was getting all bent out of shape about the shame that is, Indian Politics. The so-called saviour, who was elected last month in Delhi is engaging in a form of economic stupidity that cannot even be expressed in words. He was probably...

January 11, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Barack Obama, Crowdfunding, Election 2008, Kickstarter, Startups 0 Comments

Little Eye Labs – Facebook Acquisition

Yesterday, a small company called Little Eye Labs, which helps optimise Android apps got acquired by Facebook. Normally, not a lot of press would be extended to such an acquisition, since the company being acquired is rather small; but the media...

January 9, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Acquisition, Facebook., Indian Startups, Little Eye Labs 0 Comments

On Depression

Very well said…  

January 6, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan 0 Comments

Co-Founders II

For any startup it’s greatest asset is the time that it’s founders are able to dedicate to the venture. Apart from the time that they are able to extend every person has a set of contact sphere and these contact sphere gives him/her...

January 4, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Co-Founders, Entrepreneurs, Startups 0 Comments

Co-Founders

In India, when individuals set out to found companies, they rarely think about the need for a co-founder. They set out to do what they wish to do, without much thought about building their team. What is even more shocking is that most of them...

January 3, 2014 Vivek Srinivasan Co-Founder, Entrepreneurship, Startups 0 Comments

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