Month: January 2014

  • 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 Student Project Grant at VIT University, Vellore. The premise was that…

  • 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 game, all of the individuals who were present in the room were…

  • 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 opportunity to work with young students with ideas. As a part…

  • 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 global platform and had a huge role…

  • 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 hear this. After the initial “Oh Shit!” “God!”…

  • 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 the first guy in India who was able to pull…

  • 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 in India exploded with this news. This acquisition is the quintessential, ‘One small step…

  • On Depression

    Very well said…  

  • 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 access to certain resources. Resources that otherwise would have been difficult to…

  • 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 think that they would be able to hire people in…