Startups are always looking for that little bit of support, feedback, advise, guidance, customer reference or investor connect all the time. And this is never easy to come by. Very elusive. And probably not always very effective! In recent months and years, there is a deluge of events. In varying
Have been hearing about crossing the chasm forever. In a strategy discussion this week, this came up again. Now to look at assessing mature products. Not just startups. Thinking further, clearly there are chasms at all times. If not congnizant, the startup or product may quite not “cross” the chasm.
One of the important questions that many people ask is – When you have a compelling idea that is sufficiently curated, should you opt going full-time into the “startup mode”? Answering this question is never easy. It gets more difficult for the founders who are enthusiastic about the idea and
One common refrain I hear form early stage founders is that a mentor they were seeking out didn’t respond or didn’t respond favorably. Need to understand some reasons why, and preemptively address this when reaching out. On one hand we have very few mentors around, on the other hand we are
ACCELERATING THE START Like they say, a startup’s journey is very lonely. Even more so in India as the startup support environment is still evolving. The local ecosystem often becomes the best friend of a new startup. To nurture, support and accelerate. In the starting stages, and beyond. What exactly
Was at two hackathons this week. EXCITE at JNTU and the Hyderabad edition of AngelHack. Very reassuring see the very steep jump in the depth of ideas, quality of teams and the view of the markets. From a very contemporary yet fresh take on location based sharing of pictures that