Raising Seed Funding? Use MobStac’s Convertible Note

In response to my previous post on how we raised angel funding, I received quite a few enthusiastic emails asking for my opinion on matters related to raising the angel round I wrote about. The most common question, unsurprisingly, was on setting the valuation of the seed round, when so many things were still unknowns [...]

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How We Raised Angel Funding in India for MobStac

These days I find myself talking a lot more to people who ask me about starting up and raising money, and I often repeat the same stories about the lessons Sharat and I learned and how we navigated what was a pretty bleak funding landscape, back in 2009, at the time we were just getting [...]

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Three Score Halved

I’ve never been one to mark each passing year of my life with a loud celebration, but today, being the day I complete 3 decades, I feel the urge to draw some attention to the significant milestone that it is in my life. A lot of people have been calling me through the day and [...]

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A Change of Scenery

It’s been about 3 months since Vidya and I landed in Bangalore’s shiny new airport. I remember being welcomed by Bangalore’s cool air, and feeling a great sense of optimism about the life that lay ahead of me. That Thursday morning, the 14th of May, was the start of a new life in a city [...]

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In Pursuit of a Dream

In the 28 years of my existence on this planet, there have been moments that have been imprinted in my mind so vividly that I visualize them as Technicolor films in slow motion that when replayed bring back a gush of emotions from those defining moments of my life. I may not be able to [...]

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Beacon of Hope

I will always remember the 4th of November, 2008 for the rest of my life. Not because I witnessed a momentous occasion in US history but that I witnessed and indeed felt part of a truly defining moment in the history of the world. Barack Obama’s sweeping win of the US Presidential Election yesterday re-ignited [...]

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Public Service Announcement

I’m sorry I’ve had to turn off comments on posts. I’m assuming, of course, that I still have readers left who want to leave me comments As it turns out, the spam problem has gotten really bad and I haven’t found the time to invest in getting the Captcha anti-spam plugin to work. When I [...]

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Kings of Melodrama

We Indians sure are a melodramatic lot. If you live a while in India, it won’t take you long to conclude that it’s not just our movies that love to resort to it at the drop of a hat (I will admit though that the new wave of Indian cinema is different in this regard) [...]

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Congratulations, Doctor!

I awake from my blogging slumber to record a very significant achievement in the life of my better half. Just this past week, on the 26th of July, 2007, Vidya successfully defended her Ph.D thesis at Washington University in St. Louis. After 6 long, arduous years of a life dedicated to a single research problem [...]

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Getting Married!

Getting Married!

Although much of this blog is about the things I do and think about, I have always refrained from talking publicly about my love life. Well, this time I am making an exception to announce a big event in my life On January 26th this year (Republic Day), I’m getting married to my girlfriend of [...]

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