08 February 2012 ~ 2 Comments

My first Pivot: validating a non-problem

The biggest, toughest decision I had to make so far was to pivot away from my initial idea; the idea that inspired me to go down the startup path in the first place. The next biggest decision to make was what to do next. I was bitten by the bug and not going to shy [...]

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30 November 2011 ~ 5 Comments

A Wannabe Founder…

As an budding (read wannabe) tech startup founder, I have been spending more and more time over the last couple of months learning how one goes about the process of taking a concept or idea to a working product. On the technical front, it seems much more straightforward. Design the application, learn the technology needed [...]

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08 October 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Building a Startup away from the ‘valley’

From moment I started working on building a tech startup, the fact that I live in the washington DC area has nagged me. Is it even possible to build a large startup which may need capital infusion, advisors, good (!!) Lawyers – an entire ecosystem that is needed to build a tech company from scratch, [...]

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05 September 2011 ~ 3 Comments

Learning to crawl

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So, what does it take to get a web/mobile application to market? Not much it seems, in today’s world of cloud technology and open source software and tools. But at the same time, a lot. At the end of the day if you build something is going to make you a profit, it does require [...]

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03 September 2011 ~ 7 Comments

Infected by the Entrepreneurial Parasite!

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My favorite line from the movie Inception is the one from it’s opening scene by Cobb, the character played by Leonardo DeCaprio: I have been infected by the Entrepreneurial parasite. I have been bitten before and have started companies in the past too – two real and many more virtual. The virtual ones are the [...]

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