vijayanands

Tsk tsk. The Lack of a sense of humor.

Actually, IMO Hacker News killed Digg. All the news here would have been in Digg otherwise :)

Disagree. If you arent hallucinated by the vision that you can somehow change the world, you wouldnt dare step out either. One has to be a masochist to want to set up themselves for failure.

Once again, its not the embracing of failure, but what you perceive as failure. Most start out for the fact that they love what they do and would do it even if they werent paid for it - its the learning along the way, the friends they make and the experience that drives them. The payout, is a bonus. Failure is not going anywhere, and not even getting a lesson out of it or growing a new skill.

There is nothing wrong with the article. You are setting yourself up for some trouble when you claim you know the "real" reason - backed by zilch data, and just pure perception :)

Very Sensational. And very little proof to back it up.

I dont know if IIT Delhi is the most entrepreneurial - because some is running around with a watermelon helmet and produced a movie? :)

Any cohort, be is the top 20% or the long tail, will have few risktakers. how does having the IIT Tagline make things any different?

Even by your own thought process, I wouldnt say they dont want to fail, they just have a very different notion of success and I'm sure they believe they are successful. Let them be.

At the end of the day, whether we choose to become entrepreneurs, fight the daily battles of life, or take a route that pays well - we have to stay true to our Dharma (that's really what it all comes down to).

PS: It does look like IITians and IIM grads find their way into the ecosystem - most of them as venture capitalists. About 60% of the Associate Partners in Indian Venture Capital firms come from IIT / IIMs (lower from 80% as to 5-10 years ago). Thats out of a sample of 1500 AP Positions (roughly)

Source (http://bestengagingcommunities.com/2012/07/10/how-to-get-a-j...)

Thanks Aditya.

Is this a case for a good product, or for deep pockets? :) nobody has dared GA, cause the product delivers. Not the case for everything that is free.

... And winter is coming. :)

Sounds like something Urchin, which became Google Analytics, would have said :)

Agreed. I think the privacy policy is a third party service that generates policies.

Such is the nature of all predictions.

I wonder if they are bringing him in, to setup an internal incubator of sorts, now that labs is shut down, perhaps they think its time to do it in some structured form. I know that there was talk of it, sometime back inside the company.

Hehe, I can empathize with you. And Yep Failure is very much an option - most of the time it is the startup that fails, not the founder, not the team. But yet, more than anymore its those two sets of people who take it the hardest. That was the context.

My mentor used to remind me often that we are the final product, and that "phase" when we are building a startup is all towards enabling the product (aka us) to grow a skillset - or a new feature, if you'd call it that.

I worry when entrepreneurs and visionaries anticipate and call for a world that would embrace failure. I have no idea what that means, but failure - on a personal level - to accomplish that set task in a phase in a life, still would hurt, if not anything, just for the mere sake of the confidence and drive we put into it.

But every entrepreneur worth his or her salt will survive it.

Not "if", thats precisely what they will do. :)

I strongly believe, this would be just the beginning. Mobile phones give you three things - (recently, Horsepower), Mobility and Identity. And there are a plethora of things that could be powered with a combination of the three.

Weirdly, wrote about something like this, back in 2008. http://www.vijayanand.name/2008/10/the-future-of-living-how-...

... in a nokia centric world, be it.

Weirdly enough, wrote about something like this, back in 2008 : http://www.vijayanand.name/2008/10/the-future-of-living-how-...

It was still a very Nokia Centric world, back then.

"Smartphone vendors said to be delaying launches to avoid competiting with iPhone 4S"

We are taking the words of someone who can't even spell check, seriously?

Comments and Moderation are a major pain point for people running community sites. In order to manage trolls (and spam bots), you had registrations on, and that really cut down on both the good and the bad ones participating. Still not nearly an effective solution.

I think this is a side effect of Facebook comments. I have noticed that whenever there is a "validated" commenting system, where the user cant just create a fake id and rant away, but is connected to his/her social profile somehow, the trolling rate drops significantly. And on the positive side, because there is a linkback to your entire social community about your viewpoint, it also extends the reach of your content among active users. Its a win-win from the content creators point of view.

Just makes sense.

Another carpool app? :)

It doesnt include accomodation. But we can probably help. The resident programme runs for about 6 months. The accelerator programme starts in November.

The Model is slightly different. The process is split into two parts - the Resident where the focus is on customer validating your product, and the Accelerator Phase where teams are funded with $20,000 to a max of $50,000. The key metric against the Accelerator is also to enable the teams to get their first few anchor customers, so that they can get their "model" in place.

This is the pre-cursor to the programme. 8 months into the programme (since resident programme candidates will be first preference for the accelerator programme) the teams will be eligible for the investment.

Hope that helps.

Well, thats the honest and straightforward way of calculating, but from a competitor standpoint, you wouldn't want to match feature to feature and then try to compete. You'd attack by taking over the disgruntled users first, and Google has done that well with Circles, and Privacy. Google has its own issues with acting like a drunken sailer kicking off people at whim. But I doubt it'd take 2 years - if G+ managers to build engagement and retention, they are good to go - but honestly, thats a battle for Google.

Appreciate the kind words.

Took your suggestion to heart. No theatrics, sticking to the crux of the topic now. Edited accordingly :)

Update: The title read before "The Real Entrepreneur | Why most are simply Fake"

Absolutely. There is a lot of glamour with first mover advantage, but in today's world where iteration is what differentiates the survivor, the first mover has a hefty price to pay. That's another thought.

And then there is the New Yorker Who is moving to the Valley Claiming:

1. Cant raise capital 2. Cant find talent

http://www.businessinsider.com/face-it-nyc-is-not-the-best-p...

The Other side of the Story

Floods of Indian Origin Entrepreneurs moving out of the US. Perhaps its all well balanced, someone ask the Startup Visa guys to chillax! :)

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-05-10-tech-talents-le...

Indian Entrepreneur claims NY is better. New Yorkers are moving to the Valley cause things are better. Signs of an entrepreneur who cant spot an opportunity around and execute.

Zoho sits out of a city in India named Chennai (Not bangalore) and takes on Google. They make it happen as well. Some folks will always crib, even if life was handed to them on a platter.