https://sairam.dev/tags/startup/ Recent content in startup on Sai Ram's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020. All rights reserved. Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/smoke-test-for-a-startup/ Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/smoke-test-for-a-startup/ When people tell me about their idea today, I generally start with just a few questions: Are you teaching anyone who looks like someone who would buy what you intend on selling? If not, why not? Why don’t you start a blog today targeting a typical customer and start posting 500 words every three days? Read more at https://medium.com/@natekontny/a-litmus-test-for-your-idea-43fb44eda1c5#.b2e01u83h https://sairam.dev/post/customer-perspective-of-the-food-startups-in-india/ Sat, 02 Jan 2016 17:23:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/customer-perspective-of-the-food-startups-in-india/ I live in Bangalore(also known as Bengaluru) which is one of the biggest hubs for startups in India. I reside in Koramangala which is a sub-locality which has one too many restaurants. People think Food Startups are supposed to solve the problem of Discovery — To allow the customer to identify what are the restaurants near them and Conversion — To help order with ease and get the items delivered There is another problem which is not taken into account and there is no solution. https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/acqhiring-the-new-way-of-hiring/ This practice is so widespread that a term, acqhiring, has entered the industry lexicon to describe it. Even for the skeptics, it’s difficult to argue that these acquis- itions are about anything other than people. In many deals, like Facebook’s acquisition of Gowalla, the technology was not even a part of the transaction. And when the technology is included in the transaction, it is frequently released as open source post-acquisition. The New Kingmakers https://sairam.dev/post/where-to-start-when-planning-to-bulid-a-web-presence/ Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:30:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/where-to-start-when-planning-to-bulid-a-web-presence/ I will be writing about the familiar part of the flow, the process of starting to build the website from scratch to launch, which comes at a stage after you have validated and ensured that you’d be working on getting the website up. Get the idea right detailed in a 1 pager. Detail in what the service does and what its not supposed to do. StackExchange has a great example - Area51 (The Staging Zone) go through an elaborate process of where users define what are considered good & bad questions so that it clearly defines the scope Find and Analyse the competition.