Ravi’s Blog

I made it to india safe and tired friday night local time. The weather was quite unusual for hyderabad in late may. The temperature was right around 30 celcius ( and it was somewht humid. I learnt that it had just rained the day before and the temperatures cooled down from a day high scorching […]

I stopped reading news in the newspaper about 7-8 years ago and the only reason i pay for the merc is the ads. Specifically, I am one of those people who pay for the SJ mercury news to find out what’s on sale at frys. It’s not that i feel like i am the gadget […]

Yahoo! released a new home page recently. I suppose most/any of you who read this blog already know this great piece of news. It’s been well covered all over the press including techcrunch, business week. You can find Scott Gatz’s (Director of PM in personalization @ yahoo) blog talking about some of the finer thinking […]

So bidding finally closed on the small software tool i advertised in rentacoder.com. I got a total of 12 replies, with quite a few people rated close to 10 on a scale of ten. Of these 4 people submitted a formal bid. Several people seemed to have built software very similar to what I wanted. […]

I am at tiecon today. Tiecon is a conference for “indus entrepreneurs”. Indus referring to a river in northern india and meant to associate all entrpreneus from the indian subcontinet. Out here at tiecon though, there’s clearly a lot of indians, but a good bit of folks from everywhere it seems. I guess they need […]

Things going well with the rent a coder project that i posted. Since it’s relatively simple windows client project, I received 6 bids in 12 hours. 2 of them replied with actual bids and good overview of their prior experience. One of the 2 actual bidders asked enough questions to force me to refine my […]

Following the advice of Mark Fletcher from startup school day, I carved out a piece of software that i want to build and posted it on RentACoder.com Let’s see how things turn out. So far, I registered and posted my job. Their UI is definitely not web 2.0 and I got about 3-4 […]

Startup school speaker notes are on it’s wiki. Best place to get the complete notes.

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