What Actually Happens Between a Prototype and a Product
The demo works. Eighteen months later there is still no product. The work in between is real, it is most of the total effort, and almost nobody budgets for it …
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Why Indian Startups Hire Six Vendors and Ship Nothing
The failure I keep seeing at events is not a funding failure or a talent failure. It is that the work was cut into pieces along the wrong lines, and the …
Read →At the Launch of Navachar Mantra
I was at IIT Delhi for the launch of Navachar Mantra, a national initiative by MSDE to support grassroots innovators from Tier-2, Tier-3 cities and rural India. …
Read →A Sunday at the Founders' Mixer
I spent a Sunday at the Founders’ Mixer hosted by AIC GGSIPU, CEDAT, and Bizowl. It was quieter than most events I attend no panels, no keynotes. Just …
Read →What the AI Vibe Sprint Actually Taught Me
I went to the AI Vibe Sprint Delhi NCR hosted by The Product Folks and Emergent expecting to see people build things quickly. What I left with was a question …
Read →YC Startup School Bangalore: What a Room Full of Builders Does to Your Thinking
I flew to Bangalore for YC Startup School on April 18th. I came back with a diary full of contacts, a clearer sense of what the Indian startup ecosystem looks …
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