Rajesh Jain has a post on Quarterly Numbers.http://emergic.org/2009/01/14/quarterly-numbers/ where he has an advice for Startups:

• Think of the business in quarters. A month is too short, an year, too long.
• Put up a quarterly report to a Board of 3-4 members and review.

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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream–and not make dreams your master,
If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings–nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And–which is more–you’ll be a Man, my son!

–Rudyard Kipling

There are upteen quizzes promising to assess your “entrepreneur-ability” in terms of personality, skills, experience, and background.

Are they of any use?

Would you imagine “entrepreneurship capabilities in a 40+, parents knowing nothing of doing business and who has spent 18 years working in a PSU environment ?

But, each individual is different.Who knows what this 40+ guy can do!!

Paul Graham’s post on “Why to start a Startup in a Bad Economy” is spot on!

The economy has some effect, certainly, but as a predictor of success it’s rounding error compared to the founders.

Which means that what matters is who you are, not when you do it. If you’re the right sort of person, you’ll win even in a bad economy. And if you’re not, a good economy won’t save you. Someone who thinks “I better not start a startup now, because the economy is so bad” is making the same mistake as the people who thought during the Bubble “all I have to do is start a startup, and I’ll be rich.”

People don’t take notes when they go to the opera.

Powerpoint magic steps from Seth Godin

The financial crisis has deep implications for Startups even though it may seem unlikely.Read the survival guide and decide for yourself if you need to take those steps 

Rajesh Jain outlined the first part in a pathway to creating an innovative plan in the mobile data space. Here is the second part.

Rajesh believes that there is no better market than India for launching the new paradigm and the next platform.

Rajesh Jain is placing bets on digital devices (mobiles and PCs) and their increasing use, and that they’ll help reinvent the Indian political scene.

I’ll be rooting for him to win.

From Web Strategy by Jeremiah:

I’m mainly looking for briefings from companies that are ready for prime time. They are established, have a solid product, and are ready for adoption by Fortune 5000 enterprise companies. These companies don’t have time to deal with a startup that may not last the test of time, or have weak infrastructure. As a result, often established companies may have significant funding, or a revenue stream and thereby are able to afford a few thousand dollars a month for PR services. Having PR services is one indicator that a startup is beyond the garage (but not always)

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Vijay Anand, Curator, Proto.in asks, “If we make better companies, and if we are darn better in hard work, and are more than well aided in terms of talent and capacity, whats it going to take us to the global spotlight?”

And he has the answer too. “ I think its going to take the support of the community as a whole to make that happen.”