Chennai Events

“Tiding over Difficult Times by Gopinath Ganapathy” 25th Nov 08 @ 6.30 pm The Residency Towers, T.Nagar organized by Chennai TiE.

Registration contact – sharon.henry (at) 

Gopinath Ganapathy is Founder, President & CEO of Essentia,

Founder of Enlite Networks serving as it’s President and CEO from inception in 1999 until it’s acquisition by CollabNet in 2003.

Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin with numerous patents and publications.

 

Chennai Open Coffee Club – 7 Dec 08, 3 pm

http://chennaiopencoffee.ning.com/

 

Past

Fail Camp - 16 Nov 08, 9 – 5 pm.

http://barcamp.org/failcamp

 

TiE Chennai – All about Successful Exits - 19  Nov 08

@ Rain Tree  by Jeyan Raman Kutty.

www.chennai.tie.org, sharon.henry (at) chennai.tie.org

http://chennaitiechennaifund.ning.com/events/event/show?id=2506335:Event:17

 

Bad Economy and Startups / Entrepreneurship

Excerpts from Paul Graham

 

 

Paul Graham

 

If we’ve learned one thing from funding so many startups, it’s that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders.

 

Which means that what matters is who you are, not when you do it.If you’re the right sort of person, you’ll win even in a bad economy. And if you’re not, a good economy won’t save you. 

Fortunately the way to make a startup recession-proof is to do exactly what you should do anyway: run it as cheaply as possible.

So maybe a recession is a good time to start a startup. It’s hard to say whether advantages like lack of competition outweigh disadvantages like reluctant investors. But it doesn’t matter much either way.

It’s the people that matter. And for a given set of people working on a given technology, the time to act is always now.

Visit for full article - www.paulgraham.com