Comments on: Y Combinator

By: VentureWoods » Miniaturization of Venture Capital - India Venture Capital and Startup Blog

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:48:11 +0000

[…] There have been a couple of discussions on venturewoods earlier regarding angel funding models, including Ycombinator. An excellent article on Read Write Web outlines the challenges the venture capital is facing. Amongst the salient ones include: […]

By: vikas shah

vikas shah — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 04:37:43 +0000

“Y combinator of India”
We are laying foundation of Y Combinator in india through our new venture “venturesprings.com” .
Venturesprings.com-is essentially a entrepreneurs network of india.We aim to evolve finally as “Y combinator” of india.Still we (self and akshay surve www.akshaysurve.com ) believe in not reinventing the wheel.So, if some body is already working on same lines we would be happy to join.
What I can contribute is small fund to the tune of 5-10 lakhs .If some angel investor would like to assume a role of mentor to help us decide for investing in startups,it would be great.
Readers your obvious question would be “why i am trying to be philanthropist”.Well i started with a travel portal but it died because of lack of seed fund.And all my efforts in drain.That is my motivation.
Vikas Shah
vikaschandrashah@yahoo.com

By: Hargurnaz

Hargurnaz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:09:13 +0000

I have many new ideas and looking for dedicated co-founders in web business who could help me go through these ideas, i am based in jalandhar, punjab, india. i have personal industrial family background for over 65 years (before independence). moreover, i am thinking registering my company in U.S as inc. or LLC. Preferably aged between 18-22. If interested contact hargurnaz@gmail.com

By: Pradyot

Pradyot — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:17:52 +0000

Is YCombinator kind of thing is started by you? Just a follow up..please write me back in my e-mail id.

By: Gupta

Gupta — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 10:58:03 +0000

Very Interesting.

A friend of mine, a techie with 2 IPR’s and in the process of obtaining a Patent - both are innovative usage of SMS.

Both the products have good market size- useful for brand building by educational institutions (a huge market in India), Automobile, Fashion (high end), Property Development, etc., - Imagine the market size when you are addressing these sectors.

They are looking for funding / tie up for marketing / Licensing their patents. [ they don’t a executive summary / business plan in place as of now].

Please contact with any proposals that are win-win association for both.

By: Kashyap

Kashyap — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 11:48:54 +0000

The idea of a Y Combinator is just what we are looking for. We are a team of three working on an idea in the branded casual wear space. This field in terms of startups has not received any attention in the past decade. Most of the investors we have contacted so far have declined as they invest only in technology startups.

We have started our idea by garnering funds partly from an investor and remaining from friends and family. However, if there were a Y Combinator equivalent in India, our pace of work could have quickened significantly.

Any investors who might be interested, please drop me a mail at kashyap.dalal@gmail.com. We are looking for funding to the tune of 35 lacs over a span of the next 6 months.

Kashyap

By: Sanjay

Sanjay — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:18:27 +0000

Sujan,

I read the top 10 geek mistakes. I think this is a good post. I will make it a main post as well.

By: Sujan

Sujan — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:33:37 +0000

I found this relvent to this topic, top 10 geek mistakes..
http://rondam.blogspot.com/2006/10/top-ten-geek-business-myths.html

By: Miten

Miten — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:02:18 +0000

Hi Sanjay,

I think you have a good plan in trying to import this concept to India - although i am a student in the US i believe this is a fine way to attract the sharpest minds in the space.

to start off though - you need to conduct a startup school …much on the lines of what Paul Graham et al conducted earlier this year at Stanford. Though i did not attend, i do know of a friend who did and he mentioned that the speakers list was great. So, to start such a thing i would say - put a set of some smart people from the industry (product managers, CTO’s, industry evangelists on stage) and mix them with IP lawyers, marketing folks and crazy technology whiz kids @ startup school.

at startup school market your investment arms’ vision and let the brainstorm, networking, team-building, spawning etc etc happen… i am sure a few teams will spur up and create atleast a couple of successful companies.

i am personally also very motivated to help in anyway possible. please let me know if you plan to go further with this concept.

-best,
miten

By: Gaurav Agarwal

Gaurav Agarwal — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:28:36 +0000

Dear Sanjay,

I have been following the YCombinator model for quite sometime and I beleive that a similar model can do wonders in India. Let me know if I can be of assistance in any way.

Gaurav Agarwal.