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The toughest decision of my life…
The incredible story of how I co-founded one of the first mover Companies in the Mobile VAS business in India and China – how VC greed took over – how I the founder was actually thrown (dragged) out of my own Company and how in the end – all was well that ended ‘badly’… Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Bala Deshpande, China, Contests2win, Hadanes, Helmut Struss, ICICI, ICICI Ventures, Indian Idol, Mobile VAS, Mobile2win, Nandini Satam, Norwest, Oliver Kolbe, Peter Hua, Pramod Haque, Sandeep Singhal, Sequoia India, Series B, shanghai, Siemens, Siemens Mobile Acceleration, Softbank, Vab Goel, VAS, Vodafone
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The Al Dente Moment – What Pasta can teach Entrepreneurs!
If there was ever a perfect ‘Al Dente’ moment, it was when Steve Case sold AOL to Time Warner. A small fledgling company positioned itself so cleverly to an old media behemoth and the values that it extracted are now historical and soul shattering. Unfortunately, in the case of Time Warner, what they thought was ‘Al Dente’ Internet Pasta turned out to be Al Dente Rotting Garbage. Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Internet, Media, Mobile and Tech, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged Al dente, AOL, China, Clearstone Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs, Games2win, Hotmail, Indian Idol, Mahesh Khambadkone, Microsoft, MMOG, Mobile2win, Pasta, PRC, Sabeer Bhatia, SMS, Steve Case, Time Warner, VAS, VCs, yahoo
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How to avoid your Start Up from getting a Hangover!
If you get drunk with someone you know, she will surely drop you home and make sure you are safe. Similarly, whilst starting up, try and cultivate one or two major clients who can completely uplift your venture. It’s nice to say that you are working across lots of clients or customers but getting many to sign up becomes very difficult at an early stage……Get out there, and measure every metric that you have modeled you business on. For example, if you think 5% of all companies will sign up after you present your holiness, try meeting 20 and check if 1 (5%) converts.
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Our Clients are our VC’s..
Situation: 2003 – Post dot com bust. My co-founder GK (Gopala Krishnan) and I had launched a mobile business called mobile2win in China and India and were gaining solid traction. We had been awarded the Indian Idol business by Sony … Continue reading
Posted in Experiences, Start-Up, VC & Corporate Stuff
Tagged China, Clients, GK, India, Indian Idol, Mobile2win, VC
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