Curious n cocky

Incubated by Bessemer Venture Partners is now open to private beta. It claims to inter- connect web globally in real sense by hyper linking the content to relevant information. MashLogic is a Firefox extension provides several mashes which user can configure according to his choice. The content in web page will be hyper linked to relevant information as per mashes configuration. Whole idea is to provide user choice specific content delivery. Looks promising :). Beta invitation can be joined at - http://www.mashlogic.com/

In an old essay Paul grahm has written three basic requirements for a successful startup. 1-to start with good people 2- to make something customers actually want 3- to spend as little money as possible. Lets analyse these three points in Indian context. Very first point is a problem in India. Who is good people ? If you want a real good software engineer then you have only one option in India is to hire peoplw from IIT's. But seeing salary centric work culture it will be a huge pressure on small pocket of a startup. So what is the alternative ? this the point where most the startup fail in India. They go for intermediate level of programmers ( 1-2 year exp) came out from horrable knowledge mines ( read new breed of engineering collages). Solution - Go for freshers and harnesh their infinte capacity to work on your dream project. The second point is well known fact whether you are starting a comapny or your PHD. You need to know which existing problem you are going to solve and how...