How to pick a co-founder?

Naval Ravikant writes an insightful post on Venture Hacks on picking up a co-founder for your startup. The best combination: One person who can build the product, and another that can sell. With a history of working together and common motives. Now that may sound like common sense, but picking a co-founder is not as […]

Entrepreneur’s Lesson: Be Frugal, Avoid Temptations

When you are starting your own venture, be frugal. Whether you are putting in your hard-earned savings or have investor backing, take care of every penny you spend. Cut down on: Fancy office setups & employee facilities Expensive hardware, software, equipment and gadgets – you don’t need to flaunt Number of employees – work with […]

Avoid these customers – five warning signs to say no to customers, plus three signs to die for

Are you feeling the heat of times? There aren’t sufficient interesting & rewarding web projects out there. Everyone either wants to copy some social network / iPhone app or just wants to get it done at weekly grocery cost. It’s not easy to find projects, so you may tend to pick up anything that comes […]

Paypal Sales + Marketing Activity Trend Spotting

I’ve been using Paypal for AppsMagnet sales for a few months now. Paypal is easy to setup and competitive. And the biggest plus is that almost every e-commerce tool has support for Paypal. Paypal gives you comprehensive business reports – weekly sales, monthly sales, transaction history, downloadable logs etc. But I did not see any […]

Next ring the telephone!

We have seen breakthrough innovations in communication media and technologies. From letters to emails and IM. From books to blogs and Twitter posts. I believe transformation is coming in the way we use our telephone. Convergence of devices, portable numbers, voice mail transcription, SMS integration – it’s all coming. Keep your ears open for: Google […]