Carolyn
Dear Vijay,One of your strongest posts yet! Thanks for sepntipg back and holding up a mirror for all. Will try to cover fresh ground as other commentators have covered a fair bit.[a] first agree with your core premise trawling blogs and talking to 20 something entrepreneurs and new (to India) VCs one gets the sense of instant noodles and little of Build[ing] to Last [b] HOWEVER, much of the discussion here and in other blogs at times appears to indicate that other than the Web (2.x) there is nothing happening in the Indian startup scenario to provide some contrast[b1] any semiconductor, pharma or embedded system startup needs easily 12-18 months just to get a product out the door and three years to know if they are going ot be around and that's for the good ones; Sasken, OpenSilicon, earlier Arcus, Impulsesoft, FutureSoft, Emuzed are all examples of this; as are Reddy's, TTK Health or Ranbaxy[b2] there is a slew of educational (classrooms or books) and manufacturing startups, talking to whom it will be clear that there are no instant noodles and the three/five year rule applies[b3] it has been fashionable, right from the time Al Gore invented the Internet to talk of Internet time but the basics of building team, product, marketing and supporting customers and building a brand has not gotten any faster, even if your RoR app is up in five days!My sense is that even in Proto.in or other entrepreneurial forums it is critical for us to step back and view the entrepreneurial scene in the bigger context and not solely frame it in Infosys/Wipro, Google/Microsoft or Twitter/Web2.0 sound bites.Reminds me of periodic discussions in the Valley of how shortsighted VCs are; however over 30 years any number of VCs have shown their perseverance to put in $80-100M into each semi startup to still see only 1 in 10 survive and thrive. Part of the problem I suspect is to do with youth of the audience and the boundaries we put on our discussions! Keep em coming.
Jimmy
, 1-Count Brush (Misc.) i have been using l'occitane shaving brush for 8 hrs or so, love it. only flaw is that hairs would sotmimees dislodge, but not a big deal. recently, the brush broke out of the metal casing. my wife bought a new one for me, and it is horrible! the ends are prickly, stiff. and hurt. i am now gluing my old one back together and will return the new one. too bad, first bad experience with l'occitane.
Carolyn Dear Vijay,One of your strongest posts yet! Thanks for sepntipg back and holding up a mirror for all. Will try to cover fresh ground as other commentators have covered a fair bit.[a] first agree with your core premise trawling blogs and talking to 20 something entrepreneurs and new (to India) VCs one gets the sense of instant noodles and little of Build[ing] to Last [b] HOWEVER, much of the discussion here and in other blogs at times appears to indicate that other than the Web (2.x) there is nothing happening in the Indian startup scenario to provide some contrast[b1] any semiconductor, pharma or embedded system startup needs easily 12-18 months just to get a product out the door and three years to know if they are going ot be around and that's for the good ones; Sasken, OpenSilicon, earlier Arcus, Impulsesoft, FutureSoft, Emuzed are all examples of this; as are Reddy's, TTK Health or Ranbaxy[b2] there is a slew of educational (classrooms or books) and manufacturing startups, talking to whom it will be clear that there are no instant noodles and the three/five year rule applies[b3] it has been fashionable, right from the time Al Gore invented the Internet to talk of Internet time but the basics of building team, product, marketing and supporting customers and building a brand has not gotten any faster, even if your RoR app is up in five days!My sense is that even in Proto.in or other entrepreneurial forums it is critical for us to step back and view the entrepreneurial scene in the bigger context and not solely frame it in Infosys/Wipro, Google/Microsoft or Twitter/Web2.0 sound bites.Reminds me of periodic discussions in the Valley of how shortsighted VCs are; however over 30 years any number of VCs have shown their perseverance to put in $80-100M into each semi startup to still see only 1 in 10 survive and thrive. Part of the problem I suspect is to do with youth of the audience and the boundaries we put on our discussions! Keep em coming.
Jimmy , 1-Count Brush (Misc.) i have been using l'occitane shaving brush for 8 hrs or so, love it. only flaw is that hairs would sotmimees dislodge, but not a big deal. recently, the brush broke out of the metal casing. my wife bought a new one for me, and it is horrible! the ends are prickly, stiff. and hurt. i am now gluing my old one back together and will return the new one. too bad, first bad experience with l'occitane.