On Leaders
Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them....
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How to Ask Questions ... or ask for Feedback.
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# In50hrs. Here We go Again. Nov Edition
Update: The Event is rescheduled to be on December 9-11th, 2011. Ideas are dime a dozen. They are also the most hardest to convey to anyone. But its also true to quit a job, sit out of placements, on...
View ArticleTSC Drop-ins are no more.
We look at The Startup Centre itself as a Startup for Startups. Thats why we went ahead to register it as a business entity rather than a Section 25 company when we kicked it off. The rule was to...
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TSC Resident Grant Awarded to Two Resident Graduates
LightSpeed Ventures is awarding a Grant of 2.5L Each for two of the graduates of the TSC Resident Programme. Over the past six months two teams have graduated successfully, building teams, building...
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Nexus Partners, comes onboard to Support TSC
Its always fascinating to meet Investors who have been Entrepreneurs in their previous avatar. The clarity they bring to the table, and the way they look at deals becomes significantly different....
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Team Mirraw : On The Resident Programme
We asked Team Mirraw, Graduates of the TSC Resident Programme what they thought about it, and their takeaways (and a word to those who are to follow) as they graduate. Here's reposting it, so that...
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School of Skills : On the Resident Programme
When I moved back to Chennai from the US, I was a single founder and did not know anyone from the local ecosystem. I happened to meet Dorai Thodla (one of the mentors associated with The Startup...
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A Guideline on First Meetings
I came across this amazing post by Mark Suster, and agreed with almost all of the points he mentions. If you are an entrepreneur trying to get a meeting with an Angel, VC or an Accelerator, the truth...
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Changing the Rules of the Game.
This is perhaps the shot in the entire movie, Moneyball, that I can best relate to. Its that moment when you've already jumped off the cliff, you know there is no return, but the way ahead seems as...
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The King of the Molehill
I often get asked the question Why India? and then the follow up question by my fellow startup entrepreneurs as to Why Chennai? I've gone about explaining it in the long form version of it, but lately...
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How to ask for Feedback
This is a conversation that seemed to be coming up quite a bit as of late, and thought it might help to put together a constructed note to take the discussion forward. While this is by no means a...
View ArticleFinding Your Obsession
No Matter What, Expect the Unexpected. And Whenever Possible Be the Unexpected. Lynda Barry, Cruddy The Quote in mention comes from a talk by Jack Dorsey for the Stanford Technology Ventures...
View ArticleBuilding that Trademark Skillset (aka Key to a Co-Founder)
I collated this thoughts as a response to a thread in the Chennai OCC Group. Some of the young members (Engineers who havent graduated yet) are looking for tech co-founders. I Find that a bit...
View ArticleNot all Technologists and Entrepreneurs are CEOs
Don't assume anything by default, and force yourself to fit in a role you haven't grown into. An Idea is not a Prototype. A Prototype is not a Product. A Product is not a Startup... Likewise, A...
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Unveiling, The Startup Centre Accelerator Process.
The World is in a rage copying models around the incubation space. Actually there seems to be one model that everyone is copying from out there. Over the past 8 years of being involved in the Startup...
View ArticleAdvisors, Coach or Mentor?
We see far too many folks confusing mentors for advisors. A mentor’s job is to mould you as an entrepreneur and make you successful. For them a business that you do now is just a phase, and are more...
View ArticleThe Greater Fool: What it takes to Change the Game
A Few Weeks ago, Mukund Mohan wrote an interesting blog post analysing, what he referred to as Early Adopter Investors - Investors who get into a sector much before anyone else and take strong...
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Announcing the TSC - Amazon Partnership.
Announcing the Startup Centre - Amazon Partnership: AWS offers $4000 Credits for Resident Teams and $6000 Credits for the Accelerator Startups. The Best Part - You can write code in a...
View ArticleWhy does The Startup Centre Charge for its Resident / Pre-Accelerator Programme?
This is a question that keeps coming up quite often and while we have addressed it (individually), it made sense to talk about the logic behind it: First of all, the Startup Centre follows a much...
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