Thoughts from Bay area

Have been out here in bay area for past few days, and visibly out of action on venturewoods. Everytime I come here a couple of things hit me:

1. The infrastructure for startups to get going is great — right from office space onwards. There are literally hundreds of easy to move in/low lockin options ideal for startups

2. The ecosystem in terms of involving experienced executives still working at other firms is there — this is more a matter of mental openness than anything else, but the “pre startup” phase seems to be doing well.

3 Responses to “Thoughts from Bay area”


  1. 1 Ankur Jain Jan 21st, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    Hi Alok,

    Thanks for starting the blog on venture community in India. It’s a good source of information.

    I am a management science student at Stanford (Class of ‘06). I am doing research on Indian VCs and I want to know your opinions on the early stage and private equity investments in India.

    I was wondering if we can meet up sometime this weekend or the next week since you are already in the Bay Area.

    Regards,
    Ankur
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    Email: ankjain -’at’- stanford dot edu
    Ph: 650-740-3435

  2. 2 Rajan Jan 28th, 2006 at 12:31 pm

    Folks,

    There are ~15 members contributing to this group blog, hope to see a lot more traffic around in this place compared to what exists as of now . C onversations will ensue only when someone starts a conversation and in a blog it is only the blogger who can do it. Would like to see more posts around here.

    Rajan

  3. 3 Abhishek Goyal Jan 29th, 2006 at 7:00 am

    Its been like 10 days now … no new posts … Whats going on :)?

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