Comments on: Bootstrapping a startup in India with zero money or less!

By: linaly

linaly — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:59:22 +0000

it is true.

By: Vikram - The startup Nerd

Vikram - The startup Nerd — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:01:56 +0000

Soham,

Very interesting point. Somehow every startup now gets linked to the web startup. I guess it is driven by the majority of the crowd that come here.
I see your stuff on your blog and it is interesting to see how you have managed to figure out a startup from finance. It is good stuff, I will follow you on ur blog !!

By: Articlesubmitter

Articlesubmitter — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:40:30 +0000

What can i say? I’m truly amazed with the grade of your writing skills

By: Matt Levy

Matt Levy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:28:45 +0000

That girls crazy! That’s why I am in love with her.

By: raj

raj — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:55:48 +0000

sahil..u shudnt say it publicly…(Personally I believe marketing is the key – not the product or anything else)

By: Devakishor Soraisam

Devakishor Soraisam — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:25:27 +0000

Nice post. U mentioned abt quiting ur job. I’m a fresher, with no work experience whatsoever. What would you suggest, work for some years or go for a startup..

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Muziboo – Flickr of Music |Technology and Business Startups in India — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:52:15 +0000

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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:01:17 +0000

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Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:56:31 +0000

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By: Sujoy Neogi

Sujoy Neogi — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:17:42 +0000

The article has certain good links, but it is against the concept of bootstrapping , bootstrapping for me means “spending only what you earn”, this way you dont need large investments which are risky, and focus of your business is on earning right from the beginning, you need a self priming business model for that though. This article is misleading, if you go for above suggestions you will spend $240 for VPS in a year and few hundred for design. If you want to bootstrap you should be careful about spending.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:24:49 +0000

Interesting point Soham..to a certain extent, yes it’s for web apps…but few of these pts. can be applied to a regular startup as well..

By: Soham Das

Soham Das — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:16:53 +0000

Just a passing thought… does startup always mean online Web 2.0 startup? I think the name of the post could have more appropriately titled if ‘web startups’ were there in the post title

By: Tom Asaro

Tom Asaro — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:39:26 +0000

You may want to take a look at Linode Virtual Servers for hosting your web app: http://www.linode.com/

By: Sahil Parikh

Sahil Parikh — Thu, 22 May 2008 03:44:34 +0000

Good post. This is what we are doing with DeskAway – 100% bootstrapped. Initially it was slow but now we are seeing good results – mostly from seo, reviews, blogs which leads to viral marketing etc. There are so many marketing channels to try out – its worth the fun.
Personally I believe marketing is the key – not the product or anything else. With the web you can try out many things and change course if needed every week. With analytics, everything can be measured and tracked!

By: Abhinav Saxena

Abhinav Saxena — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:18:33 +0000

Leaving job actually is a decision which you must take wisely. It may look hard to others, but after a few days you also might regret the decision (although I never did, I left my job at Yahoo! last year)

By: shabda raaj

shabda raaj — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:51:33 +0000

Oh, and BTW, did I mention I am looking for co-founders?

By: shabda raaj

shabda raaj — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:49:06 +0000

Hareen:

Say you took a loan of 4Lacs. Your EMI is 11K. If you cut back your expenses, it is possible to maintain your life style in 10K (It is bloddy hard though.) OTher startup related expenses are say 10K. So your burn rate is 30K/Month. With this burn rate you will last a little more than an year, but then I guess 1 year is long enough to build something which you can start chraging for, or have enough euers that you can raise Angel funding for.

By: nagas10

nagas10 — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:23:41 +0000

Shabda:
Should I say Bootstrapping demystified? Your personal example should prove to be a direction worth pursuing when a bootstrapper is in cross roads.

By: Heeren Pandya

Heeren Pandya — Wed, 21 May 2008 06:02:46 +0000

I have one doubt regarding the saying that “Take a loan of 4 lakhs and pay 11K as EMI” and “Leave your job and tell everyone about this” and “Though by no stretch of imagination I can call my startup successful yet”.

For all statements I have doubt that if your leave your job, still the startup is not successful, how to pay EMI? From where the money for paying EMI will come because still the startup is not successful.

I can’t be like that from the loan you also maintain your startup and also pay EMI from the same amount. If you take 2 – 3 years of loan, then it has to be that your startup should be profitable within these 2-3 years timeframe.

But the basic question remain, from where to pay the amount for EMI, till the startup is successful? Any answer…………

By: Aayush Puri

Aayush Puri — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:27:54 +0000

Just a small correction maybe: The link to Digital Forums is probably wrong and should be http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ rather than http://forum.digitalpoint.com/

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By: Jasdeep

Jasdeep — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:01:44 +0000

Awesome post …. Great work shabda