of course yes! I work for one among the top companies. I studied in a village from a low grade universities(it doesn't matter where you study, it all about how and what you study). Though I couldn't get into top companies right out of college, In 2 years I ended up in top companies. Most(not all there are some smart guys out there too) of the IIT and NIT i have seen are jerks or n00bs. You got the passion and attitude to learn? then you got the world out there. Forget what your relatives are doing its all about you and what you wanted to do. Contribute to Free Software become a rock star hacker. All the best :)
you are such a fucking ass hole, hire programmers man not book worms. Most of the good programmers are not good scores at least in India because of the super bad education system.
This explains the stupid bureaucracy in India. Doing a startup walking to the illiterate/barbarian government office is such a pain in the ass in India. To do complete all the formulates might take at least a month if you are foreigner then its endless.
Why do think A will quit? You dint keep him happy? Its a tendency of great hackers to quit if they throw crap at them. Remember programmers never quit when they are happy.
Directi's recruitment process is the crappiest, they need people to use codechef to start the process which is a biggest buggy system and no admin replies on the forum.
I would say french lessons are not important you can spend more time on your start up. I have the same situation as you are right now, I have a startup and a day job but one difference is that I have a awesome girl friend who supports me a lot. She knew that I have spend lot of time in building the product so she doesn't disturb me much. You should convince your girlfriend about your situation.