Archive for February, 2011

What is Dilution ?

Sunday, February 27th, 2011

As entrepreneurs raise money from investors, they see a significant drop in % of their equity stake in the company, which is technically called “dilution”. It is very important to understand this concept when looking for investments. This video explains the concept in 7 minutes

Executive summary essentials !

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

This is the first and possibly the ONLY OPPORTUNITY to impress an investor. You have to make it work !!! I am an investor and have been working with investors and trust me this filtering takes around 60 seconds at the max. Ideally an Executive Summary should be delivered including the following points. The business [...]

Learn the basic technical skill set before execution !

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Technology is just an enabler of the business and not the business itself. Execution of the business strategy and increasing revenue should be the primary focus. How to get started ? Step #1: Get a domain, hosting and first page Go to Godaddy, get a domain name and a linux hosting. Now, try creating your [...]

Productivity Tools to use

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

These are some of the productivity tools I would recommend to a startup Project Management/To do list Documents/ File sharing Chat/ Conference Calls Desktop Sharing

“Ganpati Bappa Moriya”

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011

Hello All, This is my personal blog and I will be jotting down my observations on entrepreneurship, freedom, ideas and changing business models in this web 2.0 world. As with any other good thing, let us start with the blessings of Siddhi Vinayak Ganpati Bappa Moriya Keep visiting …

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