Mrinal

255 karma · joined March 11, 2008

Co-Founder (now Advisor) of CrossLoop, funded by El Dorado Ventures and Venrock. Prior to that, first business development manager at LinkedIn. Always interested in meeting people who have humility, are about (un)learning have a FUNomenal perspective of life.... especially people who can help me understand the Internet landscape from a technical perspective My email is mrinal.desai+yc [at] gmail.com

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Mrinal··on Ask HN: Launching a startup. To-do list?

Build relationships, relationships and relationships .. with your customers. Definition of "customers" vary from phase to phase of the startup. If you want to create awareness through media, get to know all the people (customer) who write about social dating. Later if you intend to seek funding, map that space and get to know investors ... so on and so forth. It is always best to build relationships with people when you dont seek something ...

Mrinal··on Face it - You are Addicted to Success

A career change, imo, would be anything that requires a significant amount of 'new' skills though this piece is all about how we should be less dependent on professional occupation

Mrinal··on How To: Raise Money in a Down Economy

Neat post!

Mrinal··on Introducing BackType Alerts

I so agree to that - we respond to the smallest of small bloggers for a good or bad post. No discrimination! Experiencing Backtype with this too.....

Mrinal··on Leave Wall Street and Join A Startup

or sign up on CrossLoop and be your own startup, if you are an IT Admin, helpdesk guy :)

Mrinal··on Ask YC: What Blogging Software do you use?

Typepad for business and Vox for personal

Mrinal··on Ask YC: Reading from RSS, keeping track of conversations?

Co.comments and Disqus where applicable are good

Mrinal··on I built it but they wouldn't come!

LinkedIn started with "friends of the company" of the company too - key is to integrate a "network effect" and viral loops in the service