Entrepreneurship and not being understood

When I talk about entrepreneurship and leaving my job to start something new, nobody seems to understand me. Everyone keeps wondering why the hell I want to leave a secure job and bright future to run after a stupid idea. Hence I could tatally relate to the following para on a blog

“…no matter what your age or experience, entrepreneurship involves such things as obsession, compulsion, creative surges, and a roller coster of emotional highs and lows. All of this can make you appear mad, whether or not it’s true.

The life of an entrepreneur does not resemble normal behavior by most people’s standards. This may explain why many of your friends give you a blank stare when you tell them you’re starting a company, or why you get the sense that family members are talking about you behind your back. Go easy on them. Few of us are fated to be entrepreneurs, or even to understand why anyone else would want to subject himself to all of the risks and hard work. It’s difficult for many people to appreciate the appeal of entrepreneurship versus the perception of stability and a regular paycheck that comes with a “real job.” The best suggestion is to swallow your pride and concentrate on building your new venture. Ultimately, there is nothing more convincing than success.”

Topics: Entrepreneurship

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How to mount windows drives in Linux

When you dual boot your system to Windows and Linux, it is important that you can view your data stored on Windows drives in Linux and vice-versa. Unfortunately Windows doesn’t recognize Linux partitions (ext2 and ext3) but it’s pretty easy to access your windows drives from Linux. But there is one thing to keep in mind… it’s pretty easy if your windows file system is FAT32. In case it is NTFS, you may have to get Linux plugin for recognizing NTFS for some distros.
First of all, how to recognize the windows drives…
Each separate disk is identified as hda, hdb, hdc, etc. in order if it is a PATA (IDE) drive (your CD drive or if you have a pretty old hard disk) and as sda, sdb, sdc, etc. if it is a SATA disk. For each disk the partitions are identified as sda1, sda2, etc. For eg. if you have a SATA disk and your Windows has three partitions, C: , D: , and E: then these will be represented in Linux as follows:

C: as /dev/sda1
D: as /dev/sda2
E: as /dev/sda3

if you have a CD drive it will be represented as /dev/hda1

Now for mounting …

Say you have a folder called /mnt/d_drive from where you want to access the contents of your D: then just give the command
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/d_drive
that’s it . Now open the folder /mnt/d_drive and you will be able to access everything on your d drive.
But this will mount your drive only for current session. If you want to permanently mount the drive you need to edit the text file /etc/fstab. Just open the file in a text editor and add a line like

/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0

Make entries for as many partitions as you want to mount permanently. Save the file and restart your session.
Done.

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Get Angel Investment for your startup (Mumbai Angels,India

The toughest part in a startup is building the prototype of your idea to prove that it works. You will need angel investment to keep the startup going at this phase. If you have a great idea, and you will like to get some early stage funding, then you should try your luck with mumbai angels

By their own admission, they are focused on seed stage and early stage companies with strong teams, defensible technologies or services and well defined product to market plans.

Mumbai angels has many members with prior Silicon Valley experience. So you can expect some really useful advice and handholding as well. More importantly they invest in indivdual capacity and not as a fund.

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Resources, VC

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Mumbai based startup (mKhoj) gets 7.1 million funding

mKhoj, a mumbai based startup, specializing in mobile advertising has secured $7.1 million funding from Kleiner Perkins, Caufield & Byers and Sherpalo Ventures

mKhoj allows publishers to monetize their mobile traffic. Considering the rapid growth of mobiles in india, this company seems to be moving in the right direction.

Topics: Entrepreneurship

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When cool is fool !!

I keep breaking my record in being an idiot. Everytime I think that I can not be a bigger idiot than this, I just go on to prove myself wrong. The most frustrating thing is that invariably the foolish ideas are the ones that I think are some smart idea of mine.

The latest in my idiot series was this post about IPL Schedule. I got hold of a pdf file with the complete schedule. I had found out how to embed pdf on the webpage. So I was pretty impressed with my idea to embed the pdf on the webpage.

2 days later, I just realized that this was a dumb idea:

The embedded pdf is slowing down the entire blog.
No one can read the pdf on my blog, it is just too large
Searchengines can not read the pdf either.
I could have avoided all these problems simply by giving the link to the pdf file.

Next time I get a cool idea, I will be more cautious. You will do good to do the same as well.

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