Venky Chinnathambi

Posts Tagged ‘startups

Congratulations to the iKobo team!!

Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: December 2, 2008

Just found out that iKobo will be opening their doors again on December 4th. About a month back, they announced their plan to shutdown their services. Apparently something has happened, rather changed,  in the last couple of weeks. This is a good news for the Atlanta region. Every failed company componds the failure rates for [...]

Web 2.0 bubble

Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: September 18, 2008

This is the most hilarious and strikingly truthful view of the startup companies these days.
Everyone wants to have a 1) blog, 2) Social Network, 3) Tag 4) Ratings and blah blah Web 2.0 features.  Anyone worked in a startup could easily relate to this video.. enjoy!!!

Start-up quickie - why montior110.com failed?

Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 29, 2008

Roger Ehrenberg wrote an excellent article on why monitor110.com failed even though they were able to raise boatload of money. I will reserve my thoughts for later, but following are the 7 deadliest sins according to Roger, which I wholeheartedly agree:

The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too late in the [...]

Very first blog entry about myGPSid.com

Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 15, 2008

Alright!!! enough is  enough - I am getting inundated with questions about my future plans. Most of you know by now that I had quit Music Intelligence Solutions; going to be two months soon. So the question is what’s next? Well, we are just getting started on a new innovative product and hopefully we’ll get [...]

Email etiquette for startup companies

Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 15, 2008

There was an interesting article on ABC News about email usage, Best Way to Annoy Your Co-Workers? Using  E-mails.
Even though I agree with most of it, a clear distinction between big monolithic companies vs Startup/agile companies are warranted.  For example in big companies, it is all about CYA. But in a startup environment, it is [...]