Most of the times entrepreneurs  get to hear complaints and good byes from the customers and they are constantly working to improve and do it better.
Today I am proud to share a couple of customers posts, where customers have gone out of their way and said very nice things about Deskaway and Commonfloor (two of [...]

(This article is jointly written by Sameer Guglani and Nandini Hirianniah)
In recent days, while working with the MVP portfolio companies and reflecting back on the days of madhouse, we have identified this phenomenon we are calling ’startup madness’.
It’s visible and present from the time when you start thinking of your million dollar/world changing idea to [...]

Sahil shared an article today about “Why not to start a company in today’s time” and the importance of social leverage,
The social leverage part is extremely critical in the success of today’s agile, low cost and young startup. On the internet this is one of the most important (and free) marketing tool available [...]

This article is reproduced from Sameer’s Blog, my personal blog. It was originally written on 10-March-2008.  Original post can be found here:Startup Essentials: Hire the right kind of people (and fire the wrong ones)
Jason / Michael and bunch of other folks have been talking about kind of culture startups should have, to be able to [...]

This article is reproduced from Sameer’s Blog, my personal blog. It was originally written on 27-January-2008.  Original post can be found here:Startup Essentials: If you have an idea, tell it to a 100 people
This post was jointly written by Sameer and Nandini
Many entrepreneurs working on new ideas, seem to live with this assumption that Idea [...]

This is the common thought right now: “Oh my god! What will happen to startups?“. We have heard a variation of this question from all over the place – bloggers, media, investors, startup employees, startup founders, folks considering doing startups, etc.

YC’s Paul graham has published Why to Start a Startup in Bad Economy
Here is what [...]

This article is reproduced from Sameer’s Blog, my personal blog. It was originally written on 24-January-2008.  Original post with all comments can be found here:Start-up Essentials : Laws of learning and openness (new role, new rules)
Every startup has a core team, consisting of the founders (or just the founder) plus other key early employees. The [...]

This article is reproduced from Sameer’s Blog, my personal blog. It was originally written on 02-December-2007.  Original post with all comments can be found here:Start-up Essentials – Fearless decision making
Assuming that the team and the idea both have the potential to be successful, the single most important factor that determines the success or failure of [...]