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  Swaroop C H - India, Technology, Life Skills

• Leaving IonLab

  Swaroop

  13 Nov 2009 | 5:05 am

  Yesterday was my last day at IonLab, the company that I built with a few friends. It has been a wild ride but I could continue no longer. I am leaving due to internal differences on the progress and transparency in the company. We have been well-supported in our experience, right from a Govt. of India grant to being one of the few to be selected as a TiE Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program mentee. We owe special gratitude for the people who made that happen and supported us. But as any been-there-done-that startupper would expect, we delivered on technology, but we sorely lacked in maturity…

• An interactive version of A Byte of Python

  Swaroop

  9 Nov 2009 | 5:00 am

  Roorky is a new startup that has created a new file format and software for interactive books. As part of the default installation of the software, they are bundling A Byte of Python free with the software. What is interesting is that this may help complete beginners who stumble in getting started with IDLE, etc. The most common email that I get asked is when people run python abc.py on the IDLE interpreter prompt and wonder why it is not working – both the concepts of two command lines as well as the concept of running a program is not grokked well by beginners who are getting started,…

• What I learned at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009

  Swaroop

  5 Nov 2009 | 11:30 am

  There are not enough good problems that tech startups are working on and there seems to be no shortage of funds, platforms and ecosystem partners willing to help startups. The ecosystem is hungry for successes. Product Management skills are the need of the hour, NOT talks about talks about opportunities in X sector, and so on. When there is no culture of knowing how to execute, rest of the topics are moot points. ⇒ Read more at our event coverage at StartupDunia.com. Update: This has been cross-posted to the official NASSCOM Emerge blog. © swaroop for Swaroop C H - India, Technology,…

• To get somewhere, you already have to be there

  Swaroop

  13 Oct 2009 | 2:17 am

  The irony in this world is that “To get somewhere, you already have to be there.” From an individual perspective: If you want to make money, you need to already have money. To get a job, you need to be one-year experienced and not a fresher. If you’re experienced and want to apply for a job that you really want to work on, you should already have the background of working in that area, and you should already know how to do all that the job entails. If you want to write a book, publisher expects you to have already written a book before. To be listened to, you need to be an…

• Mobile App market in India

  Swaroop

  6 Oct 2009 | 6:22 am

  Thinking from an entrepreneurial angle, it seems to me that there is almost no mobile app market in India today i.e., it is not a startuppable market. All the successful apps that are making money are transaction-based. For example, ngpay takes a cut from every movie ticket you buy through it. This is only possible for entertainment-oriented apps. The only other successful ones that I see are, of course, communication apps such as Gmail app. I see almost nobody using utility applications on their phones. Things can improve only if internet-on-mobile was affordable! I think we need 3G for…

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