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Dorai Thodla
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@Murali thanks for the pointer. I have heard about the book but have not read it yet. @Rohil and @Vikram, you are welcome. The slideshare has a rich set of useful presentations (look in the areas of marketing, customer development, market developme…
November 24
thanks for ur wonderfull Insight
November 24
Thanks.
November 13
Do you know of any? We can then update them.
November 13
shilesh, Thanks. The Twitter list just gets us a list of people. Hopefully their company names are in their profile. Otherwise we need to come up with a scheme. Any one, any ideas? (I have a couple but would rather hear from others first).
November 13
Shailesh, Good idea. But why not first start with the names of the companies and tags that identify them? A little more of the collective intelligence of the group. People who start in one list may want to be in others too. So basically companies a…
November 13
Can I send this to a few students? Dorai
November 2
It is on the first Sunday of every month. The notifications are more about the place than date. I do agree that a few days in advance help.
November 2

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A serial entrepreneur. Our company iMorph, Inc and iMorph Innovation Center Pvt Ltd. focus on technology related products and services.We build custom portals for Learning, Information/Knowledge.
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Dorai Thodla's Blog

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My WordPress Blog

I noticed that I have only two posts here. Actually my real blog is here. I will try to point to some posts on entrepreneurship from the blog.

Here are some starters.

* Ten Talks and Lots of Learning

* Relentless Predator Upon the Obsolete

* Learning Agility

* LinkLog: Startups

* Universities Help Start $B Industries

* Startups In the Center

* TiECON Chennai 2008 – A Mem… Continue

Posted on July 6, 2009 at 6:55pm —

Dorai Thodla

Resources: Paul Graham

Paul is one of the most prolific writer on matters relating to software, startups. You can read his essays here.

His "Hackers and Painters" book is a classic. It is a collection of many of essays on his site.

I think a few of these essays may be good starting points. Even though they mostly talk about American startups, we can discuss about them and come up with the Indian variations.

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Posted on August 7, 2007 at 10:19am — 2 Comments

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The Subway Meeting

I was not sure what I expected. May be a few people. When I walked in with Karthik, there were already about 7 people. And then the place started filling up. I think in the end we probably had more than 20 people. It was the first meeting for the "Chennai Open Coffee Club" - a "support group for startups".

It was fun. There were people who already had their startups. And a few others who were thinking about starting on their own. I am sure there were others who just wanted to know, wha… Continue

Posted on August 6, 2007 at 10:27am —

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At 10:49am on September 21, 2009, Prasadh MS said…
Hi Dorai! I would be happy to block a seat or two for you at the NLP for Managers workshop. Do let me know if you would be able to join in. Cheers!
At 5:10pm on September 16, 2009, Madan Murthy said…
Thanks Dorai. Looking forward to talk to you.
At 4:36pm on September 16, 2009, Madan Murthy said…
Dorai. Great to hear from you. I am in Chennai at present.
At 4:19pm on September 16, 2009, Madan Murthy said…
Hi Dorai,
This is Madan. I am on business visit to Chennai from Australia. Looking forward to meet like minded people to discuss few business opportunites for my start up idea. Can you advise me on this.
At 7:17am on August 22, 2009, Manoj Kumar said…
Thank You very much Sir,
I'll do as per your convenience.
We will have a morning session..
And I'll talk to my staff members and will confirm with the date,mostly Sept 7th,..
I'll reply you soon..
If i can get your mobile number,I can inform You much more soon Sir,..
My mail id is umanojkumarit@gmail.com..:)..
Hope I'll get your number...:)..
At 7:05am on August 22, 2009, Manoj Kumar said…
Sir,can we have You in our college on any day of the second week of sept.?..
At 6:58am on August 22, 2009, Manoj Kumar said…
Hi sir,
Good morning,..
Hope u're back to hometown...
Welcome back sir...:)..
At 10:15pm on August 8, 2009, Manoj Kumar said…
Thanks Mr.Dorai for accepting my request to join our college network..:)..
I'm eagerly expecting your return to our motherlend..:)..
And also for Your visit to our college too...:)...
At 8:45pm on August 8, 2009, Manoj Kumar said…
Hi sir,
Good Evening..
I'm glad that I'm now in your in contact list...:-)
And i also would be glad twice as much as now,if you would like to join our entrepreneur community which is meant for our college,so that i'd help my friends to reach you out there easily....
This is my humble request sir...:-)..
Pls...
At 1:18pm on January 19, 2009, thiyagu said…
I am software engineer. And i am building my own business in my spare time. I Want to expand my business. I am looking for a entrepreneur who have the dream in them. if you are interested to start a business of your own please call 9345580333 or else give me a comment or email me thiyagu83svv@gmail.com.
 
 

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