Cheers,
Marvin

@mesJ Grammar/Spellings
since school i have been very bad at both…so a good way to find If i wrote the piece and not got it ghost written by a ‘pro’ is when it has this unique signature so please accept my apologies in advance for this..

@vijay @rajat thanks for the agreement

@bajirao I was just trying to talk about the ‘majority’ and 100% agree that there is a ’small’ segment of entrepreneurs who don’t fit this category

@kc it will be great if you can list 10 startups (pre funding) which have a team of people who left their 8 figure salaries to join the startup… ?? I may have completely missed them

Webinfinity spammer! you suck!

We also do all kind of advertisements!! so everything @ one place…

“Except for the CEO most other team members have little idea about the company and its vision. ”

I realized that while the author may be an authority on start ups in Silicon valley, he has absolutely no clue about how Indian start ups work. This one statement is sooo wrong… that i felt there was no point in reading further.
In this day and age of 6,7 and even sometimes 8 figure salaries, why will a person come and join a startup if he/she was not completely sold on the idea of the company?
This may be true in a services startup company. But it is not at all the case in a products company.

What you are stereotyping, is what Ashish usually calls as ‘psuedo entrepreneurs’ .. random young people who are just “exploring” rather than “in it”. They are very inexperienced “businessmen” and hence tend to be confused about their roles .. sometimes not enjoying it either.

But majority of us who are actually committed to our respective start-up businesses we are in, cannot afford to be as stupid as you paint us to be .. May be you never met enough of us cause we are too busy running our businesses (leading to your stereotypical assumptions) but we exist and in majority .. so do look out for us in future !
I will wish you luck with your biased (and may be even racist) stereotypes .. but it’s not right misleading readers of Pluggd.in in general.

One thing I really like abt all your articles including this one is your strong position … It makes people take stand like “you are with us or against” something all startup entrepreneurs should learn . we cannot run businesses with consensus .. lovely !

Like somebody said, you cannot deliver a baby in a month with 9 women, the ecosystem does need time to get to mature (I mean to collaborative, co-operative and collective state ), it just cannot happen in a year or two or five.

In India we do have startups that use PR firms based out of U.S, do interviews with journalists, analysts and prominent bloggers, hang-out at tech gatherings but the question regarding outgoing & social is more related to the availability and reach of ecosystem rather than personal or cultural attitudes of people.

Thanks to folks like Barcamps,HeadStart Network, NEN, Proto.in, Startup City, TIE for working towards building an ecosystem while Pluggd.in, SiliconIndia, WATblog, YourStory.in etc trying to build information base on Startups in India.

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