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Nothing teaches and prepares you to take on the World better than your own experience. So don't wait. Just Get Started, the moment you think You wanna be an entrepreneur.   These are a few books, PDFs, Podcasts, Presentations etc from my notebook, I believe will be a great help to get started. Get a hint about Markets: Future of Web Applications (Podcasts) Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference Videos ( Videos , List ) See What Others Are doing: Proto.in   ( Links , Videos ,  Notes ) Demo Techcrunch Understand What it Takes: The Art of The Start by Guy Kawasaki ( PDF , Video ) Cost of BootStrapping ( PDF , MP3 ) Go for it: Getting Real ( HTML ) How to be Creative ( PDF ) OnStartups ( Blog ) Its not that easy and all. But its a good start. Stay tuned for more. If you have a link to a resource that You think will be useful wanna-be's please add to it. ( Add as a comment or message to me). Technorati tags: inspions , startup , entrepreneur

This is what really makes a difference to a wider India. So far, growth has been confined to a few cities and causing chaos in terms of infrastructure. Its quite natural extension of oursourcing to go to rural areas, any corner of the world infact. The growth must go to Rural areas, to bring IT to everyone in India. And this is a big and hard step forward, but worth every penny and second spent. Location is not important for most functions of any IT work, and doesn't make sense to do it only in a city. I believe we have talent every where, and with littel tuning and training, we can leverage vast resources of Rural India.  If MNCs move to India for cost advantage, why not move it further to Rural India where the Cost Advantage becomes a much bigger advantage. Not just that, it would bring entire country on to a similar level of growth and expowerment. I do not think at this point, there is any issue of Quality of wo...

Photos of Proto.in Around 100 photos of Proto.in 2007 Conference     Source: Flickr: Search Web Clips Notes Here is my Google notes on the event. This page is getting updated every few minutes. So Stay tuned to see more notes on the event at the URL: Proto.in 2007 Participated Companies : Presentation Here is a presentation made by Amit Ranjan describing in brief about each startup that was showcased at Proto.in 2007. Here is the URL to Presentation. Video Presentations at Youtube More videos of Proto.in 2007 Presentations have been uploaded by Proto.in team. You can access all 23 of them (at this point) in One Play list here. Technorati tags: proto.in , india , inspions , software , startup , web2.0

Here is a presentation made by Amit Ranjan describing in brief about each startup that was showcased at Proto.in 2007. Here is the URL to Presentation. Here is my Google notes on the event. Stay tuned to see more notes on the event at the URL: Proto.in 2007 Technorati tags: proto.in , inspions , india , software , startup

Missing to attend in person to Proto.in, first Conference in India to showcase Entrepreneurial spirit of new India, I tried to find out by searching at Google how the first Proto.in conference went. I already posted a link to Video Presentations of the event uploaded by the Proto.in team in a previous post. Here is my Google notes on the event. I just had Blogosphere and News Search results in the notebook. Stay tuned to see more notes on the event at the URL: Proto.in 2007 Technorati Stats of Proto.in Coverage in Blogosphere, just showing 100 posts in last 30 days. I took a snapshot today morning. There are only couple posts added to it later in the day. You can actually see the clips of all new items and blog posts in my notebook.   Technorati tags: proto.in , software , inspions , india , startup

More videos of Proto.in 2007 Presentations have been uploaded by Proto.in team. You can access all 23 of them (at this point) in One Play list here. I understand there may be some more videos to be uploaded. Technorati tags: proto.in , inspions , india , software , startup , web

Proto.in , the first Premier Conference to Showcase the Latest Startups from India and Network with Venture Capitalists and Investor community came to an end yesterday. Eagerly waiting to see some analysis and podcasts. I don't see Podcasts at podtech.net   yet.  And there is no official update when they will be made available. A link has been posted that refers to a different blog that has links to a few videos of Presentations made at the conference. The link in the Proto.in blog entry is wrong. Here is the correct URL . You can also see a one/two liner impressions of the Author about each Startup participated in the Conference. Here are links to a couple of Videos. Will include links as and when they are available. Stay tuned.   Technorati tags: proto.in , videos , india , software , web2.0 , entrepreneur , startups , inspions