SridharTuraga

It took 9 months to deliver the baby …

I was recently talking to a highly driven entrepreneur, who talked impressively about how time-to-market was critical and scaling needed to happen yesterday. He seemed to focus all his energies on getting right there to top quickly and getting a lot of funding to support his expansion plans. I only appreciate and admire his zeal.ContinueContinue reading “It took 9 months to deliver the baby …”

Learning from Obama …

I have been watcing the US Presidential election closely for months (years!) now … much to the irritation of my wife. I am very fascinated by Obama’s election strategy. In many ways I think it is very instructive for start ups (even if he doesn’t win … with I think is very unlikely). #1. HeContinueContinue reading “Learning from Obama …”

Ten traps for Entrepreneurs…

Here are some traps I saw other entrepreneurs fall into. (Of course, some of these I fell into myself multiple times !) Watch out when you hear these lines. # 10. “Let’s add Social Networking features and use AJAX. It’s the hottest trend around. Will help with valuations” # 9. “He has 30 years experienceContinueContinue reading “Ten traps for Entrepreneurs…”

Another ceiling shattered

Amartya Sen taught in economics that just having equal opportunity is not enough, but we need to have social intervention to improve capabilities of masses before they can tap opportunities at hand. For example: My maid’s children have equal opportunity as my children to make it into an IIT – but the schools they goContinueContinue reading “Another ceiling shattered”