June 2011
2 posts
Interview with Manik Kinra & Sitashwa Srivastava... →
Jade Magnet is winning by providing creative solutions inspite of getting in to a market which is already filled with market leaders.
Interview with Nitin Gupta of Entertainment... →
Entertainment Engineers is a unique start-up where the team is making money without being serious :)
May 2011
3 posts
Must Watch: Video tour of Facebook datacenter →
Thanks to Scoble. Video tour of Facebook datacenter.
Web font services →
While building your webapp font is the last thing you want to worry about but a good font can change the look and feel. I was searching for Web Font Services and couldn’t see an easy way to compare…
Everything is a Remix →
Startup worrying about if the idea they are working on is original or not must watch this series on remixing . Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it,…
April 2011
29 posts
Javascript best practices →
The main trick with JavaScript is to avoid taking the easy path. JavaScript is a forgiving the environment and even bad code is executed in it. This same code however will come back to haunt you in…
An Introduction to jQuery Templating →
JavaScript Templating is a neat idea: it allows you to easily convert JSON to HTML without the work of parsing the it. At Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, they announced that they would be starting to…
Interview with Sridhar Vembu of Zoho →
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Interview with Sridhar Vembu of Zoho
Sridhar Vembu is the CEO of Zoho Corp. (formerly AdventNet Inc.), the company behind the Zoho suite
Knockout.js 1.2.0 released →
what’s Knockout.js?
Knockout is a JavaScript library for building rich, responsive user interfaces. It uses automatic dependency tracking and declarative bindings to update your UI whenever your…
Which is better: Follow or Connect or Add as a... →
Follow is too impersonal. Friend is too personal. Connect is most accurate, and just right.
Your thoughts?
Register a Company in India – Private Limited... →
Steps to be taken to get incorporated a private limited Company:
Select, in order of preference, a few suitable names, not less than four, indicative of the main objects of the company.
Ensure…
First-mover disadvantages →
Although in some cases being a first mover can create an overwhelming advantage, in some cases products that are first to market do not succeed. These products are victims of First Mover…
Interview with Jaya Jha of Pothi.com →
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Interview with Jaya Jha of Pothi.com
Pothi.com is a Bangalore based start-up founded in February 2008. The company aims to make…
Interview with Deepak Ravindran of Innoz →
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Interview with Deepak Ravindran of Innoz
Deepak Ravindran (who just turned 23) is the co-founder & CEO of…
Interview with Kanan Dhru of RFGI →
Click below for Interview with Kanan Dhru of Research Foundation for Governance in India .
Interview with Kanan Dhru of Research Foundation for Governance in India
Paul Graham Essays Ranking →
Paul Graham Essays
You can also see Paul Graham Essays Ranking. The rankings are encoded here in the colour of the different boxes - it’s a challenge to work out what the colours mean! One colour plane is controlled by the forward “Page Rank” value, one colour plane by the reverse “Page Rank” value, and the last is always “fully on.” Who knows what the various mixes might...
Fellow hackers, take note. This is how you solve a problem! dfranke is Pandora, a rat in a maze, Sherlock Holmes, General Sherman, William Randolph Hearst, and your father all wrapped in one.
“Ai Weiwei, “So sorry”Ai Weiwei was arrested yesterday at the Beijing...”
– China’s Best Known Artist Arrested
What is a app?
An app is a piece of software that provides actions, including actual behavior as well as convenience of access and communication to a set of users. A single logical app may have multiple physical manifestations (on your phone, tablet or notebook) as well as multiple economic manifestations (a free version, paid version, with or without in-app-purchases and ads, etc.). Each manifestation of an app...
I think whenever you’re launching a social network, don’t discount the fact no matter how popular you are, and how well your social media strategy is… you will gain the majority of your traffic from search engines. That’s the case with StackOverFlow, and even Yelp. As much as 90%. Which is why I think it doesn’t really matter who you promote it with. You just need...
“Apple sells design, Microsoft sells price, and Dell sells customization but they...”
First-mover disadvantages
Although in some cases being a first mover can create an overwhelming advantage, in some cases products that are first to market do not succeed. These products are victims of First Mover Disadvantages. These disadvantages include: “free-rider affects, resolution of technological or market uncertainty, shifts in technology or customer needs, and incumbent inertia”.
Free-rider effects
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“Positive Cashflow ~ two most beautiful words for successful startup...”
– http://iamstarting.com/
“Baidu considers acquisition of an English search engine but it won’t be a...”
– Baidu considers acquisition of an English search engine but it won’t be a Google-killer - TNW Asia
“Brahmasphuṭasiddhanta is the very first book that mentions zero as a number,...”
– Brahmagupta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Twitter Kills The #Dickbar”
– http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/so-bar-walks-into-app.html
“Intuit and Salesforce.com are teaming up to take more small businesses to the...”
– Intuit, Salesforce.com Team Up to Target Small Businesses - Digits - WSJ
“Whitespace The challenge of monetizing the web is a tricky one, but a new...”
– Seth’s Blog: Introducing white space links
Google: Departing CEO Eric Schmidt Tried To Get... →
What did Robert Scoble learn from Color
1. They got funded without doing a slide deck. 2. Their reputations got them a personal invite to Sequoia to pitch them. But the story of what they were working on is what closed the deal. 3. They needed the money to “compress” the time they need to ship a very advanced technology and vision. 4. They screwed up the launch, according to Peter. How? Bad UI, bad timing, noise from funding...
March 2011
44 posts
Interview with Sanjukt Saha of Onebillionminds →
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Interview with Sanjukt Saha of Onebillionminds
Sanjukt founded One Billion Minds with the dream of…
Interview with Rajiv Poddar of Scribie (Callgraph) →
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Interview with Rajiv Poddar of Scribie
The genesis of CGBiz LLC happened around March 2008 when Rajiv…
“We made 500 of each (Obama O’s and Cap’n McCains). They were a...”
– A VC: Airbnb
Note to self #2 - Startup Thoughts - Trends
1) Innovation
We’ve still got it, including making things that are not just ways to waste time on the Internet. Evidence: sci-fi writers dramatically underestimate progress in our industry.
2) Biotech
Sexy like cleantech, but doesn’t require government subsidies to make money. Also has competitive moat, because biotech is hard. (Don’t worry, software still...
Note to self #1- Startup Thoughts
Innovate at core level
Efficiency - better, faster, fastest
Mass produce/curate information/data and iterate
Make what you’ll use
Measure 1 stat only e.g: for iamstarting more important stats for me is not page views but how many time podcast is are played.
On demand data - gmail, dropbox, any thing which can sync data across devices will be loved
Customer service is a must have...
Productivity tips for a chronic procrastinator?
Suck it up. Stop reading blogs, stop reading HN, stop making excuses. Start working. There are no tips that will break you out of it - just self discipline. I was you once. GTD by David Allen helped. Going to the gym daily with my brother (who is a gym rat) helped, but I finally realized that I had everything in the world that people are dieing to get and I was squandering that gift by wasting my...
I think WebEx hates their customers
Dear [name withdrawn] Please end our contract immediately. We will not be held hostage by your anti-customer policies. If you continue to charge us we will: 1. Not pay you 2. Report WebEx to the UK Consumer Protection Agency 3. Begin a social media attack on WebEx for your unfair and ridiculous cancellation policies. Sincerely, Ryan Carson source
Interview with Vijayakumar Kannan of Rupees4gigs →
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Interview with Vijayakumar Kannan of Rupees4gigs
Want to hire someone to design your business cards, installing…
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Side Projects Gone Big
I started both Gravatar and GitHub as side projects. I sold Gravatar to Automattic after several years (though it was never profitable and became quite painful to run during the last year that I owned it). GitHub has been profitable since the day we started charging money (6 months after we started working on it) and we are now up to thirteen employees without having taken any funding.
In...
Interview with Bala Girisaballa of Yahoo! EN →
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Interview with Bala Girisaballa of Yahoo! Entrepreneur Network
Bala Girisaballa is an entrepreneur at…
“Delegation is not about doing less, its about getting back the freedom to do the...”
– ~Derek Sivers
Configure Ubuntu in Amazon EC2 Cloud →
Lean Startup Machine is the brainchild of Trevor Owens, Josh Horn, and Ben Fisher, a hackathon-style competition where teams come together on a Friday evening and build a brand new startup – by Sunday. It’s an impossibly short amount of time. To make it more difficult, unlike your standard issue hackathon, the judging on Sunday is not just about who can make a cool-looking prototype. Teams...