Startup And What It Takes To Succeed
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Interested in quiting your job and building a startup? Here’s an interesting comment I found at a website whose owner did the same and is now spending time reading / thinking / discussing with other about what it takes to succeed.
I respect your long and thoughtful blog post, but to be honest, the first sentence of your blog post tells me that you will fail miserably. Instead of spending “a lot of time reading / thinking / discussing with others about what it takes to succeed”, you need to focus 110% on building a growing positive cash flow and profits.
Trust me, when you’re forced to return to the cubes as someone’s W-2 wage slave after falling into a deep depression due to failure, you will regret having wasted so much time blogging, socializing, facebooking, twittering, IM’ing, and web surfing for “the answer”. I’ll tell you the fricken answer, and it is simple: You’ve jumped off a building and you need to build your plane (profits) on the way down. Any minute you spend not doing this will be to your severe detriment.
Quite an insightful comment. Read the original article from here.
SearchMe Beta Invites
The new 3-D search engine on the block SearchMe is giving out Beta invites. You might wanna quickly grab one while they are still out there.
SearchMe is a totally different way to search for information on the internet. Right now their indexed database is relatively small, about a billion documents but going by their capabilities in the introductory video, they sure seem to be on their way to revolutionize the whole Search game plan.
Watch their video or go to their site directly and sign up for a beta invite.
TechBanyan Makes It To The Cover Page
A few days back I had profiled a new Digg like service called Blogsvine. They have been kind enough to respond favorably by putting my site on their home page. Blogsvine is just couple of weeks/months old but personally I get more traffic directed from them than any other news aggregator.
How Kulveer And Harjeet Stuck Gold
By building a great startup and managing to sell it for a cool €3.2 million. Along with their partners, Kulveer and Harjet started an online service Auctomatic that describes its mission as empowering online sellers through various features. The tools proffered by Auctomatic asssit a user in maximizing their potential in online selling sites like eBay, Amazon, Overstock etc.
So You Want To Build A Startup
Any start up that you greatly admire? Makes you wish you had gotten that idea earlier, could have easily turned you into a millionaire?
Say long before Youtube came into the lime light and became a big hit, you had gotten the idea of letting users upload and watch streaming videos. Do you think you would have been able to similarly build it into a billion dollar business?
SaferIndia - How Kiran Got Her Groove Back
(Pic - Kiran Bedi with Holly of PBS)
Critics never tire of praising Kiran Bedi, an ex super cop and present day social activist. Recently when she got passed over for the top cop position at New Delhi, Ms Bedi promptly handed over her resignation and, kid you not, set out to jump on the web 2.0 bandwagon. (Albeit a rickety one though).
How Did She Do That
Finding The Funny In Outsourcing - LA Times
LA Times has an interesting story on a newbie Indian cartoonist Sandeep Sood. He is the creator of Doubtsourcing, a comic strip trying to show the funny side of outsourcing. The fodder for the strip is the misunderstanding which usually takes place when the work is carried out thousands of miles away, culture clash etc. The strip itself is partially outsourced, Sandeep writes the dialogue and a friend in China does the illustration.
Microsoft’s Latest Venture - Comic Strips
In its latest venture, Microsoft has launched a comic strip - Heroes Happen {Here} - featuring who else but super hero techies. The strip is co sponsored by Microsoft and Seagate.
Sabeer ‘Hotmail’ Bhatia Dials In With SabseBolo
(Pic - The man himself)
Sabeer Bhatia has been trying hard to beat his one trick pony reputation. After trying his luck with Arzoo and Live Documents, the man who sold Hotmail to Microsoft has now launched an online tool for facilitating teleconferencing at no extra cost to the user.
Looking at the website, one thing that struck me as odd was the image used on the home page.
Prototyping Proto.in
(Pic - Proto.in session in Chennai, India)
Few days back I came across this particular group (in India) - Proto.in (www.proto.in) - which provides a platform for interaction between innovators and investors. Google takes them serious enough to be one of their major sponsors. What the group does is play a sort of match-maker between a small company and a prospective investor. Say if you are a startup which is short on monies but has a demonstrable ‘prototype’ capable of hitting pay dirt, then Proto.in is exactly what the doctor ordered.