Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Manar Hussain said: On 10/12/06, Badri Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > adage about a civilized >> nation being one where a beautiful woman bedecked with jewels can walk >> alone confidently in the middle of the night? > Singapore. Not in Serangoon. The cops don't go there... :-) Ve

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Binand Sethumadhavan said: Maybe you don't play a decent game of table tennis. :) How very true! I really don't play a great game of TT. Let me find a good place to practice. :-) regards, Venkat

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Long time ago actually :-)   kamlaUdhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ on 06:31 PM 10/12/2006 ]>BTW, your friend who came up with that cretive way to recruit people >in a pub was recruiting for a telecom company five years ago :-)Just went to your website and fou

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Manar Hussain
On 10/12/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manar Hussain wrote: [ on 10:48 PM 10/12/2006 ] >Would it be fair to say that: >(1) these start-ups are mostly focused on india (where one presumes >there is are plenty of opportunities) No, approximately *none* of the startups around are l

Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 12/10/06, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nation being one where a beautiful woman bedecked with jewels can walk > alone confidently in the middle of the night? Is there anywhere in today's world where this can happen? I don't really think so... This place I live, Gibraltar, is vir

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ on 06:31 PM 10/12/2006 ] BTW, your friend who came up with that cretive way to recruit people in a pub was recruiting for a telecom company five years ago :-) Just went to your website and found that you interviewed the guy recently. :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Manar Hussain wrote: [ on 10:48 PM 10/12/2006 ] Would it be fair to say that: (1) these start-ups are mostly focused on india (where one presumes there is are plenty of opportunities) No, approximately *none* of the startups around are looking solely at the India market. I would be very glad t

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Manar Hussain
On 10/12/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manar Hussain wrote: > It's interesting that you didn't mention angel investors when > highlighting the VCs claim to not be interested in early stage > funding. Actually, what I implied was that the VCs claim to be interested in early stag

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Manar Hussain wrote: > It's interesting that you didn't mention angel investors when > highlighting the VCs claim to not be interested in early stage > funding. Actually, what I implied was that the VCs claim to be interested in early stage funding, but don't actually fund early stage companies,

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Manar Hussain
Would it be fair to say that: (1) these start-ups are mostly focused on india (where one presumes there is are plenty of opportunities) (2) Word of mouth, catalysed through blogs, as a means of getting 10k-100k people to trial you is not a viable hope within India, and/or even if you make a splash

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are angel investors, and there is a group in Delhi called the "Band of Angels," who are funding companies. Some of these angel investors are located outside India...in the US, UK etc.   There are start-ups that are boot-strapping and chugging along. Once you have a prototype and a couple o

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Vinit Bhansali
Bootstrappers and angel-funded (or even friends and family funded) companies almost always fall under the radar until the moment they have launched/marketed or somehow made an effort to make themselves known. With VC funded companies, a part of the lure is that the VC's and media will do a lot of

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Manar Hussain
On 10/12/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manar Hussain wrote: [ on 12:46 AM 10/12/2006 ] >Lol. Well that's good to hear. Is it mostly focused in Bangalore as >hinted? How involved in that scene do people here consider themselves >to be? Anyone able to give a flavour of what it's l

Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread sastry
On Tue October 10 2006 3:55 pm, Deepa Mohan wrote: > Remember that adage about a civilized nation being > one where a beautiful woman bedecked with jewels can walk alone confidently > in the middle of the night? That happens only in a dictatorship - or when the jewels are obviously fake. Sorry

Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread sastry
On Tue October 10 2006 3:37 pm, Dave Long wrote: > What's the general trust level like in India? All home windows (in cities) have metal bars. Glass-only windows are non existent. But, OTOH - I have (for long) felt that peace exists over vast areas of India despite the absence of adequate polic

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ on 09:24 PM 10/12/2006 ] That is right. It was a software company in telecom space, right? Indeed it was. I need to get the guy who came up with the beer idea on to silk, which both of us have been saying ought to be done. Real Soon Now. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is right. It was a  software company in telecom space, right?    :-)   Kamla   Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ on 06:31 PM 10/12/2006 ]>BTW, your friend who came up with that cretive way to recruit people >in a pub was recruiting for a telecom compa

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Udhay Shankar N
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ on 06:31 PM 10/12/2006 ] BTW, your friend who came up with that cretive way to recruit people in a pub was recruiting for a telecom company five years ago :-) It was still a software company, though. Unless I'm misunderstanding the reason for your comment? Udhay

Re: [silk] Poking holes in FOSS..

2006-10-12 Thread Anish Mohammed
>With virtualization and NGSCB this is becoming an increasingly crucial and difficult question. The >hardware you're running on (possibly in the processor, possibly elsewhere on the mobo) can >potentially do all sorts of things to break your software. The new intel architecture (Legrande) and c

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Vinit Bhansali
Gotta give it to the lady and her infinite resources and infallible memory.   ;-)     - VB     BTW, your friend who came up with that cretive way to recruit people in a pub was recruiting for a telecom company five years ago :-)   Kamla  

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Udhay, thanks for the update on Bangalore.   You say, "VCs here apparently prefer to find later stage companies rather than early stage companies. This does not necessarily have anything to do with what they SAY they will fund, y'understand. This may be changing, though. And about time, too It i

Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread Manar Hussain
On 10/12/06, Badri Natarajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > adage about a civilized >> nation being one where a beautiful woman bedecked with jewels can walk >> alone confidently in the middle of the night? > > Is there anywhere in today's world where this can happen? I don't really > think so...

Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread Deepa Mohan
a beautiful woman bedecked with jewels can walk >> alone confidently in the middle of the night?>> Is there anywhere in today's world where this can happen? I don't really> think so... Abu Dhabi, Dubai,etc. Japan. Possibly Korea. I would imagine large parts of Scandinavia. etc,etc..Badri        Wow

Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread Badri Natarajan
> adage about a civilized >> nation being one where a beautiful woman bedecked with jewels can walk >> alone confidently in the middle of the night? > > Is there anywhere in today's world where this can happen? I don't really > think so... Abu Dhabi, Dubai,etc. Japan. Possibly Korea. I would imagi

Re: [silk] Small plane crashed in Manhattan, NY

2006-10-12 Thread Deepa Mohan
Day before yesterday, what would an insurance company have said, were the odds of a plane crashing into a high-rise building in Manhattan, AGAIN? (It's happened THREE times already if my memory serves me right.)   Deepa.  On 10/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: No problem...it

Re: [silk] trust

2006-10-12 Thread Deepa Mohan
adage about a civilized> nation being one where a beautiful woman bedecked with jewels can walk> alone confidently in the middle of the night?Is there anywhere in today's world where this can happen? I don't really think so...   Deepa.

Re: [silk] Google can't find enough people in India

2006-10-12 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 12/10/06, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You see, I am returning in November and actively seeking employment. It looks like, for some strange reason, the market is very hot in Bangalore but I cannot find one. Maybe you don't play a decent game of table tennis. :) Binand