Archive for May, 2006

indian world cup fever

Posted by deap on May 30th, 2006

I’ve read story after story now about India’s obsession with World Cup Soccer – and like every other corner of the world (yes, including the United States!), the pubs and bars will be one of the main beneficiaries of such fanfare. This presents a good opportunity for Burrp! to tie in such events with the [...]

How to start a startup

Posted by anand on May 12th, 2006

Dilbert teaches us how to get started…

Are we there yet?

Posted by anand on May 9th, 2006

We’ve been super quiet lately. You guys out there must be wondering what is going on with Burrp! Are these guys going to launch or not? Since the past few weeks, we’ve put our heads down and have been working like crazy on Burrp! It takes a lot of effort to get something right. We [...]

Only the paranoid survive

Posted by anand on May 3rd, 2006

Rajesh Jain of Emergic posts an excellent snippet of Paul Graham’s “The Hardest Lessons For Startups To Learn” What you should fear, as a startup, is not the established players, but other startups you don’t know exist yet. They’re way more dangerous than Google because, like you, they’re cornered animals. Looking just at existing competitors [...]