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Re: YourVersion Sign-Up Process Works

aditya — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:56:40 -0000

Thanks Dan for such a quick action! I really appreciate it. I'll try to give YourVersion one more signup chance.

Re: Movable and Actionable Signup Flow

aditya — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:52:40 -0000

Thanks Jay for your reply! Wow! What a bad-timing for my post. I think you guys changed the design very recently. Because I took these snapshots 2 days ago, and wrote the post y'day.

Anyways, it would have been interesting to see the live example on your site, but I still talked about the concept about how it was working in my post.

Re: YourVersion Sign-Up Process Works

aditya — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:42:03 -0000

Well, I don't like services using Facebook Connect to increase their sign-up and asking for your email address and other details right on the second page. One of the reasons I'm using FB Connect is because I don't want to give my email address. I can give it once I understand why they need my email. Without explaining the benefit of giving my email address, they are asking it right on the 2nd page.

For me, experience was fail. I quit the signup process on the second page.

Re: Dividing equity between founders

aditya — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:04:06 -0000

Chris,

Thanks for another great article!

You touched following points -
1. Future contributions
2. Past contributions
3. Past success stories

I was wondering what are your thoughts on risk profiles of co-founders when they are not located at same place? Say one is located in Silicon Valley and other is located in low cost development country. Since the lifestyles are different, should we consider this location factor?As their might be difference of 5x cost at both places.

Or on the side note, is it not a good idea to have a co-founder a distant apart?

Your thoughts will be appreciated!

Thanks,
Aditya

Re: Verifying Twitter account credentials using Symfony validator in PHP

aditya — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:50:43 -0000

Unfortunately I cannot provide all source files because there is additional code. This was not created for tutorial per say, but it was taken from my current live example. So to provide downloadeable files, I'll need to modify my files, and I'm limited with time bandwidth.

Re: Verifying Twitter account credentials using Symfony validator in PHP

aditya — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:24:08 -0000

Thanks Swapnil! Yeah, the purpose of APICall was to make it usable for all different Twitter API calls, or even other web service calls.

Re: Being Efficient Vs Being Effective

aditya — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:32:55 -0000

Yes Mitali, you are absolutely correct. I've already said, that efficiency is must. First, we have to achieve that. Then once we achieve that, we can not stop there. Our next step is to achieve effectiveness. So effectiveness without efficiency is not possible. In my opinion, efficiency is the foundation of effectiveness.

Re: Tips for entrepreneurs from Michael Dell

aditya — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:30:09 -0000

Yes Alex! The gut instinct is something we can not imitate from these leaders. We can learn from their other tactics, but gut instinct, we have to go with our own. So that decides our success or not.

Re: 12 Twitter Stream Aggregators To Make You Smarter

aditya — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:57:04 -0000

This is a great list, but I would also like to add my shameless plug.

Check out Tweeght(http://tweeght.com). It's a Digg like Twitter application for sharing your thoughtful tweets and inspirational quotes! You can Vote up and Retweet other tweets very easily.

Let me know your feedback @adityakothadiya on Twitter.

Re: Tweeght Seeks the Meaning of Twitter

aditya — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:30:06 -0000

Thanks a lot for reviewing Tweeght.com. I really appreciate your inputs and future predictions! -Aditya

Re: Why I moved my blog?

aditya — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:00:18 -0000

@Steve,
Thanks for your comment. You are absolutely right about blog getting evolved with different content than the one you started with. That's precisely happened in my case, so finally decided to go with my own name.

I'm glad you liked my views.

Thanks,
Aditya

Re: Startup Hacker, it’s not the new Technology, it’s the Sales skills that you need to learn next

aditya — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:41:51 -0000

@julian Absolutely right. Enterprise sales is comparatively tough one. Especially if we are "young", and trying to sell, then the outlook of those customers is quite different. We need extra effort to make them believe in us and bring them at a common ground. There are some basic etiquettes that we also need to follow, as they are taken granted in Sales world, but can be new to us.

@ALx, I think the best way to learn Sales is when you have something to sell. It need not be your full blown Enterprise startup. I started with selling stuff from my Sisters' clothing and art business. I'm also reading some sales and marketing blogs. My mentor also gave me some sales coaching. So this helped me to get to basic level. Now, I'll learn it more once I practice it more into the battlefield.

Re: Startup Hacker, it’s not the new Technology, it’s the Sales skills that you need to learn next

aditya — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:21:58 -0000

@Promise, I absolutely agree with your point that the best case is when we start selling before we even have our venture. That's how Bill Gates sold their OS to IBM :-).

Re: Observation on How a Self-Bootstrapped Startup Vs a VC Funded Startup Spend Money

aditya — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:07:47 -0000

@snehal,
I agree with you. That's why I said, there might be some truth in "keeping employee happy" part. But those profit making companies also want the best talent and want cooler product and more users.

Yes, sometimes $2000 or so look peanuts. I agree. But at the same time, think about that money when it's going from your pocket. Then we think twice before spending it.

The bottom line is, we just have to keep this thought in mind that VC money is not there to spend. We should treat it as our own money. At the end, if buying expensive laptops make sense, then sure, go buy it, but just make sure we think twice before it.

Re: Thoughts on Startup Ideas and Team

aditya — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:18:14 -0000

I totally agree with your point. I had once taken a "Team First" approach to work on startup. And I exactly failed during that situation due to "commitment" of team-members and not because of the idea. And that's why I had to choose - no team, no problem, do it by yourself attitude for my next project.

But while going through this situation, I think if you have an option, you should try for "Team First" approach. If it doesn't work out, then you should go by other route.

Re: Startup Founders – Are You In Rush To Start A Startup?

aditya — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:27:14 -0000

@Denny,
Thanks for your comment. And thanks for wonderful thoughts as well - I also enjoy your blog, and hoping to keep learning from you.

Best,
Aditya

Re: What They Don’t Tell You About Starting a Startup

aditya — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:18:46 -0000

@Mattijs Naus and @All,

I wrote that article because I'm experiencing few things that I wanted to share. I'm working on starting a startup, handling all marriage and day job responsibilities. I find it very challenging, but I still push myself because it's my character flaw - that I want to start a startup. To make this happen, I'm also looking for building a founding team. For that, I'm talking to few people who shared their interest of starting a startup.

Whenever I talk to some young professional, the most common observation I have seen is - almost everyone wants to start a startup, literally almost everyone. But the fact is - they just don't know what it takes to make it work -- the insane hard work at initial stages. They just talk about success stories, but when it comes to put the time and build stuff, they disappear. And that's how I got inspired to share this thought on my blog.

I am not saying we should take that advice seriously and stop working on our dreams. That advice was more for those people who "think" they want to start a startup, but probably don't understand the reality to make it happen.

- Aditya, (Adeologue)

Re: Oblivious to Obvious (Corp)

aditya — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:20:44 -0000

Great post! Short and sweet! Seriously, I dont know what these guys are doing. Compared to them, FriendFeed rocks because of their insanely smooth execution! FriendFeed should acquire Twitter :)

Re: A new kind of Twitter outage (Scripting News)

aditya — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:35:27 -0000

That's true. I haven't received any updates since 18th April from people whom I'm following. That can't be true. I'm following some people who are Twitter fanatics and post daily more than 10 updates. I can't believe that they haven't a single update on weekends. It's definitely has to do with Twitter outage/bug.

Re: The shy Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook

aditya — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:02:49 -0000

Robert, it's a nice post! But I was looking for some new information. We have read most of this info all over in blogosphere before. I was hoping to learn more of a "personal" Mark Zuckerberg.

I would actually want to know - how many hrs a day he works? How much time he spends on Business Operations Vs Technical Development Vs Family & Friends? What kinds of books he reads? How does he learn his business strategies and tactics? How does he take decisions? How does he inspire his team? How does he spend his weekend - on Facebook stuff only or on personal stuff? Etc.

These are the questions which are never answered by blogospehre about the leaders. The company details are all out there.

It would be great if you could mention some inputs on Mark's personality as a leader if you learned about it in your interview with him.

Re: The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

aditya — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:37:56 -0000

Hi Dave,

I agree with your views, and that's precisely why I started http://www.siliconverge.com in the last week.

Siliconverge.com is a place for people and news from semiconductor/hardware industry to converge together. Like Digg, our community will share, discover and discuss latest and greatest news & stories related to Semiconductor and allied industries from different sources on the web. Siliconverge.com is aiming to change the way people from semiconductor industry consume the information online.

I started Siliconverge.com
1. to filter out the signal related to Semiconductor and allied industries from other noise available on the web
2. to solve the frustration of keeping oneself up to date with different news sources of Semiconductor and allied industries
3. to find the latest and best stuff in the short time related to Semiconductor and allied industries on the web

I think, having a digg clone, which focuses on a strong niche domain, will add huge value to the reader community. Many people from Semiconductor world are still not highly exposed to Digg like system. They still follow old way of visiting 10 different news sources. Siliconverge.com has a high value proposition for such readers. I believe it's an untapped niche market.

Please let me know what do you think about Siliconverge.com and how can I get involved into your Digg-clone project idea. I'm very excited to know that you also believe that niche and relevancy are one of the core aspects that we should focus on.

Thanks,
Aditya

Re: Does Your Job Suck? Try A Cup Of Tea

aditya — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:05:55 -0000

WOW! Believe it or not, I am having a tea break in the middle of my work day and browsing the web while having this cup of tea. As India had adopted many cutlures from British life style before the Indian Independance, many people in India still do have these tea/coffee breaks, and take short power naps after the noon.

Especially the individual shop owners close their shops around 1:00pm to 3:30pm and have lunch with family, then take some power-nap, then get a cup of tea and then join the shop after you get refreshed. Many office professionals also get-together during common time and have arnd 15-30 mins tea break with some fun time and chatting.

Now me working in USA, still follows the tea break practice but misses that chatting and hanging around with colleagues part ;)

But in all, good post to take a break and restart with full energy!

Best,
Aditya