Back to Starbucks!

I am back to Starbucks. The main reason, I am not able to concentrate on my work when at home. And thought if I am back to this place where I have access to wi-fi I could atleast make some progress in my work. It has been a tough time these days, I am lacking in my work these days and need to make progress ASAP. So atleast for the next couple of days I will be here. Hopefully, by the time I return to work on Monday, I should be in a good situation. Hope so.

Anyways, I will post the progress on my blog on Monday morning, if I had a progress or this too turned out to be a routine weekend. Stay tuned for the results on Monday Morning!...

Ok..I completely forgot to post the progress..However here is the progress that I was able to make by the time that I made it to office on Monday Morning...I would say it was 70%.

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

http://paulgraham.com/articles.html

http://iaccelerator.org/

This is an extract from : http://iaccelerator.org/
The Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship at IIM Ahmedabad announces iAccelerator 2009 an intensive startup company assistance program geared towards first time technology entrepreneurs in India.
The iAccelerator works with brilliant first time entrepreneurs to establish well run, technically excellent, profitable technology companies in India. We use our experience setting up companies, our business network and our money to ensure that companies working with us are well formed and have access to the people and information they need to be successful.
All participants are required to live and work from Ahmedabad for 5 months from May 1 thru Sept 30. In addition to developing their products during this time, participants meet with industry veterans, learn new technologies, share what they are working on and have a great time.
We are looking for committed individuals with strong technology skills and clear ideas about how to use the internet or mobile technology to solve people’s problems, earn money and make the world a better place.
If this is you or someone you know let us know right away.
If you don’t have an idea but want to get involved with these startups with a potential to build a long term relationship, check out the EIR page.

Innovation Gap in India.

These are the comments posted in one of the blogs:
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by one of the readers of that blog.

Why am I posting that content in my blog? This will help us in improving our quality and look into those aspects which we need to improve on. As the famous saying goes : "Failure is the stepping stone for success!".

Posted by jefftonkel 02/13/09 12:06 PM EST


My point of view --As an entrepreneur I have been the CEO of several startups (one that used India development), the VP of Product Management for Webex (China development), Tandem Computers (India outsourcing), and most recently EVP Marketing for Integral (using India development). So I have had considerable direct experience with the subject.Back in the late 1980's and the early 1990's Tandem Computers successfully used India outsourcers to maintain stable products and other technologies that were not leading edge for the company. This worked well because the application or infrastructure was well understood and innovation was NOT required.By the early 2000's the cost advantage of offshoring to India became clear to VCs and many startups began to use India outsourcing, as first a way to reduce cost for some part of the technology, but eventually startups tried to use India for development of leading edge software applications. You can include me as one CEO that tried.In my experience using India or China for outsourcing of new technology or using India or China for development where the startup owns the subsidiary has been a TOTAL failure.The lack of skilled developers (that have perhaps ever written code for a similar application), the lack of innovation (the ability to create a better product than spec's), the drive to build large organizations with juniors doing the work and seniors only managing, and the complete lack of any understanding of the use for the product results in poor product quality, poor delivery schedules, and a significant lack of product innovation.Again, the bottom line for the startup is higher cost than anticipated exacerbated by lazy cost management on the part of the startup, late time to market, poor product quality, lack of product innovation.If I remember my history correctly, The Mythical Man Month, a book written back in the late 1960's, was a proponent of small development teams with little man

Values Frist -- N R Narayan Moorthy

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Best Entrepreneurship Books

This is an extract from http://www.sramanamitra.com/., and here is the URL..

http://www.sramanamitra.com/2009/02/07/best-entrepreneurship-books/