Day: August 3, 2006

Dharmesh has written an excellent article on top 6 questions people fail to ask when joining a start-up. His top 6 questions are as follows: Will the founders get along when the going gets tough?  Will you get along with the team?   What’s the history of the basic idea?  What other ideas were assessed and discarded?    How much cash is there, where did it come from and how long will it last?   What are the founders looking to get from the effort?   What will the startup do for you?   Prior to setting up ebdex, I…

When you think you are nearly there – something else happens to slow you down! That’s exactly what happened to me this afternoon. I was finalising some loose ends including software licenses, insurance and legal paper work. To my utter amazement, Bea quoted me a hefty price for weblogic 8.1, which immediately got me to think of migrating to Sun Java Applications Server, which is free. I have a crisis meeting with Affno and Bea to sort this out tomorrow. Are any of you use weblogic? I am very much interested in knowing the price tag you had to absorb!…

As you may know, Sir David Varney, Chairman of HMRC is to step down soon, and take on an advisory post at the Treasury. Sir David is an Alum of Manchester Business School, and I had the privilege to meet him when he gave a Vital Topics lecture. This meeting led me to visit HMRC to discuss deployment of ebdex Document Exchange to improve their accounts payable and receivable functions. However, at the time, we have not even written a single line of code and therefore did not meet the pre-qualification criteria. Tags: HMRC, Manchester Business School, David Varney, Vital…

One of my friends who recently launched a product, held a User Group Event recently. It was the first such event I attended. I was very much interested in learning so that when ebdex runs its User Conferences/Seminars, we have an appreciation from the "attendees" point of view. List below is what I took home:: Make sure attendees are comfortable as much as possible. This does not mean you have to provide executive seats, but ensure attendees are not under any pressure to "buy". Make sure the event does not turn into an "Amway" style pushy sale event. Remember, a…