Archive for January 2011
The right Motivation to startup
“Disgusted that a video rental store raked him over the coals for returning a movie late, Reed Hastings created Netflix. Seventeen million subscribers later, some people probably wish a clerk would have just refunded the man his 40 bucks.” -
“Hello, I am Macintosh. Never trust a computer you cannot lift… I’m glad to be out of that bag” – talking Macintosh Computer., Apple
Larry Ellison was inspired by the paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”. He founded Oracle in 1977, under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL).
“to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” – Google Founders
Bezos named the company “Amazon” after the world’s largest river. Since 2000, Amazon’s logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile); a goal was to have every product in the alphabet.
How Facebook ships code
Awesome read for Tech startups in India on the importance of Engineering culture. This may not work for everyone as the author correctly puts it but a lot to learn from nonetheless…
http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/
Please also read the corrections by a Facebook Employee here http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/f3u0n/how_facebook_ships_code/c1d3b37
Why Indian Internet Startups need to get off their asses and learn to program
I have been resisting writing this post for a long time as I felt that it may be too cocky or arrogant, but we at Infinitely Beta have been getting so many emails off late from startup founders and funded startups asking us to build their products for them that I felt it was appropriate to write this post now. It really shocks me and my team when we get such emails. It clearly shows that the folks that are sending us these emails obviously feel that the core DNA we have worked so hard to build over that last 12 months can easily be bought for few $$ – Not! Second, it also shows that these folks have no tech capability whatsoever and feel that technology is trivial and can be outsourced. Instead of taking the time to go and learn programming and building a deep tech culture they are just being lazy and hoping that they can find a technology team / outsourcing firm to help them with their problems. It also makes me wonder why VCs fund tech companies that lack deep tech capability.
