Category Archives: Entrepreneurship

Product Managers, 5 reasons why you need to know how to code.

By lalit | Published: March 30, 2012

During last 13 years of my professional life, I came across many who call themselves pure technology product managers who have very little understanding of how the underlying technology works. While I have nothing against them, here is why I think knowing how to code really really helps especially in startup settings. I know the [...]

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Enterprise Mobility .. it’s awesomely cool

By lalit | Published: November 13, 2010

I was surprised  when Ashish called Enterprise Software “boring” in this post. I don’t know much about other enterprise sectors but Enterprise Mobility is anything but “boring”. Following are some basic fundamentals: If you are in India and you want to start something on your own you simply cannot ignore Mobile. It’s the only connected [...]

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Hiring for startup? How to attract “Crazy geeks”.

By lalit | Published: August 11, 2010

Let’s assume that you figured out the business, and core team challenges of a startup. The next in line is scaling up and one of the biggest challenges in scaling up is hiring. As a startup you have basic 3 thumb rules while hiring 1. You need the best possible talent 2. You can’t pay [...]

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The Art of debugging

By lalit | Published: June 11, 2010

An average developer is someone, who can write code, once explained what to do and how to do it. A good developer is someone, who can implement something, once told what to do (he can figure out the how part) An awesome developer given business goals,  can also figure out what to do. But a great developer [...]

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Mobile LBS 101 for Startups

By lalit | Published: June 10, 2010

Mobile LBS is a very happening space, lot of players are expecting it to become huge even in India. But still plenty of companies and start-ups look confused about how to take best advantage of this wave. So here are few of my thoughts about the value chain and where the money may lie. LBS [...]

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Browser is the new OS even for Mobile phones

By lalit | Published: March 5, 2010

At Mobisy we always believed that the future of Mobile computing is in the cloud. And Browsers are the doorways to access the rich information available over Internet. But on the other hand, mobile device native applications provide much richer functionality that browsers cannot match. Our platform mobitop was born, exactly to solve that problem. We [...]

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Wanna be an entrepreneur, learn football

By lalit | Published: January 22, 2010

This post is on a lighter note .. Today morning, during a casual chat with Kesava, we said sales is like “center forward” you may not be the best footballer in the team but you know how to be at right place at right time. And that’s when it clicked. Most of the good product [...]

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