Posted by: Vijay on: April 14, 2008
Hardware: Buy, Don’t lease.
Most folks who are starting up in the valley would ask you to lease and not buy. But with most hardware and computers, it would actually work out to be cheaper to just buy them, since you can. The Depreciation factor actually helps you out.
For God’s sakes, find a mentor.
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Posted by: Vijay on: April 7, 2008
When you do start off, you most certainly want to make sure that you start off on the right foot. So here’s a list of things you definitely don’t want to cut corners on, or make compromises on:
The Name.
There are times when I just an amazed at the identity of a corporation. A corporation, essentially [...]
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Posted by: Vijay on: April 7, 2008
Update: This post was made on April 7th, much before the recently concluded Barcamp Bangalore 6. Keep that in mind.
Barcamps, they are happening everywhere now. There are debates and raging discussions on as to whether we “interpreted” the format right, but whether or not, its still going on. Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, Kerala, Hyderabad [...]
Posted by: Vijay on: April 6, 2008
Saturday was Startup Lunch in Bangalore and kudos to the guys [Sridhar, Pradeep and Ashish Sinha] who are spearheading the effort there, it went really really really well. There is an account by the organizing team which goes through most of the details. I am quite impressed, and kinda glad to know that there is [...]
Posted by: Vijay on: March 29, 2008
I just stepped back into my apartment after a long day in Barcamp Mumbai. I am in a split of a mind trying to figure out how productive the day was. On one hand, I met a lot of people. I had some 20 odd appointments with folks that I wanted to meet and greet [...]
Posted by: Vijay on: March 23, 2008
Mumbai, though a little late, has been turning into the happening scene for techfests and they are organizing the third edition of Barcamp (quite shortly after their second one) on popular demand it seems. Mumbai, after Bangalore, has been one of the few cities to be conducting their MoMo meets quite regularly, whether rain or [...]
Posted by: Vijay on: November 27, 2007
When we first laid down the groundwork for Proto, one of the things that I sincerely wished to see was more initiatives like Proto spring up, so that – for one, we’d strive to deliver more value to the entrepreneurs who need all the support they can, and hopefully we can move on to focus [...]
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