I started by writing Few Good Men in NCR and realized that this would be inviting trouble and also eliminating half my audience. Restricting to NCR for teams/single person with no specific idea is necessary as the amount of interaction required will be hard at a distance. I am working with a few people with specific ideas who are from locations other than NCR.
People/teams who may not have specific ideas but have the passion/ability/fire to build something big which has the following characteristics interest me
1. Its primary market is consumer or small business in India
2. It can start small and grow big
These people/teams could be fresh out of some of the premier educational institutions or have some startup or big company experience but they must be able to work full time on the big idea with maybe no compensation for some time.
I have various ideas to suggest to them to investigate and become passionate about. I want to work with these people as a founder and an investor. Realistically I can work with only a few as my model calls for intense involvement.
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Hi Sanjay,
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trying to get into online toy and gadgets retailing segment.
Hi Iqbal,
I agree with you once the team has reached a certain stage but I am not sure that it works early on. The other issue is that if you have limited funds and are going to do your initial customer research/marketing spend in a particular geography then all key people need to be able to touch the market.
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I have worked with several teams and several startups, and at first I was of the opinion the the only way of getting things done was for all to sit round the same table, then I started to realise that this actually wasted time. Now I use lists, eg tadalists.com, or backpack or whatever, everyone knows what to do and when, and its perfect simply because I get to use the best talent from where ever it is.
Currently one such startup has people from Switzerland, India, London, and Romania. Another has Russia, London. As long as the tools are used, people work much better when they have a target and can go away and work on it. I agree this requires some type of maturity, and not for all, by this I mean sometimes you get techies or just cant get out of bed on their own, and can’t work from home.
So dont limit urself, just figure out howto get the best of all the people on the planet.
Iqbal
Prashant,
I need to be very heavily involved. Collaboration tools help but face to face interaction is vital. In Silicon Valley when I raised angel money one of the conditions was relocating to the Valley ( I was on the east coast at that time).
I also expect that in other hubs in India there will be people like me that entrepreneurs can tap.
Rgds
Sanjay
Hi Sanjoy;
I am am eager to work with or to start a company in internet domain.I am following VC blogs and internet startupsin this domain in India.I am looking forward for find or create some opportunity usinh intenet as plateform.Do let me know what kind of profile you are interested in.