Comments on: Introductory post – Entrepreneurship in India

By: Manish Agarwal

Manish Agarwal — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:54:30 +0000

I wants 2 open an IT COMPANY in future..can anyone help me in regard of this matter.I need ideas..9547040983

By: Rajs

Rajs — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:39:44 +0000

Looking forward for next posts and learn

By: Raseel

Raseel — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:12:23 +0000

I was reading this post for the second time and I don’t believe I actually missed out on the Formula 1 Team venture you wanted to stared , the first time.

Is there any way, Karthik, you can write a blog post on what and how that was all about ?

By: Startup Financing in India-how much money to raise |Indian Startups, Business and Technology

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:45:04 +0000

[...] [For those of you new to this series, please read the introductory post here.] [...]

By: Entrepreneurship in India: How to approach VCs? |Coverage of Indian Startups, Business

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:18:24 +0000

[...] The process of raising institutional money can be one of the more physically and emotionally draining parts of starting a business. It can drag on for weeks or months, taking away your focus from your business. And even after all this time, the deal still might end up collapsing. So, before you jump into this process, you better have some clarity on the whether you and your idea are both ready for VC money or not. [For those of you new to this series, please read the introductory post here.] [...]

By: Shankar Nath

Shankar Nath — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:22:23 +0000

Hi Kartik,

It’s nice to see someone sticking to their guns on using ‘advice’ to distribute financial products and laying a stress on ‘managing’ client assets rather than pushing products. It’s a tough thing to do.

I went through your website – iTrust has signed up with multiple players for distribution of insurance, MF and loans. There were other services like estate and tax planning.

A few areas I’ve noticed where the space is not crowded (in India) is remittances, SME services, alternate investments for NRIs, trusts etc. Are you exploring these areas or would you be keeping iTrust a purely retail affluent and lowerHNI player in the market (this means more competition with existing banks and other financial consultants)

Warm Rgds
Shankar

By: Entrepreneurship in India : Validate your idea |Coverage of Indian Startups, Business

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:45:16 +0000

[...] case around it. For those of you who are new to this series, please read what these posts are about here. This post is long, so you might want to stretch your legs every few minutes to avoid deep vein [...]

By: Sumit

Sumit — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:48:30 +0000

Hey Amar. Thanks for the appreciation of the product. and thanks for the suggestion of nice approach to avoid bogus entries. We are planning to do shortly.

By: Amar

Amar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:00:00 +0000

sumit: Good concept for your venture..good luck. If you want to verify the users and avoid bogus registrations, use what google does to verify its local listings. they usually send a postcard with a code and the user enters that to activate profile.

By: Monu Agrawal

Monu Agrawal — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:20:01 +0000

Just can’t wait to get next post.

By: Sumit

Sumit — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:00:14 +0000

Hey Amar, mine is 23

By: Kartik

Kartik — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:35:00 +0000

By: Amar

Amar — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:36:38 +0000

Just to keep things in perspective, plz post your age.

By: Sumit

Sumit — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:48:27 +0000

Hey Kartik, I am badly waiting for your next post.

By: Sridhar Rao

Sridhar Rao — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:41:37 +0000

Looking forward for the posts.

Cheerz
Shri

By: Raseel

Raseel — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:12:59 +0000

Great !! I just can’t wait for the posts. I have my questions ready…really weird and stupid ones, but hey , do you know of any other kind ?

By: sri

sri — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:12:21 +0000

Hey kartik , good to see you on Pluggd, would request you to kindly consider my points also

> show how a Entrepreneur can succeed without having to Pitch for VC.
> Why is VC always self regarded fro every startup, wouldn’t’ the Idea alone succeed??
> If someone has a derivative idea what would be the right time fro him to join hands with others ?
> lot of synergy is been created for VC activities in INDIA, but how many of these efforts are successful.
> We have seen VC investments from early 2004, but yet more are pro US centric products [i might be wrong] but the feeling remains same.
> Is the Servicing industry scenario fo Outsourcing reaching the Startup cases also, like Develop products here [cheap labour], sell it elsewhere

> I am always perturbed to hear everyone stating about VC funding, but yet please say to World,would it be possible in early stages to concentrate and take a new stage without being able to spend time fro preparing presentation & Docs for a VC pitch

> Earlier youngsters were driven towards servicing Industry since the earning was lucrative with stock options, should youngsters take same step by quiting jobs, since VC would Fund??

> very confusing out there in the Indian sentiments, clarify few of these

thanks ahead

Sri
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