Posts by Dharmesh Shah

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Why There Aren't More Software Startups In India

January 8, 2007

These days, you can’t help but read about the economic growth that is going on in India. Lots of people are talking about the huge emerging middle-class, the overall growth in their…

Back to Basics: User Generated Revenue As A Business Model

January 4, 2007

In 2006, we saw a lot of energy and interest in user generated content. Many companies like MySpace, Facebook, YouTube and others made the headlines in both traditional media and the…

Startups: Should You Offer A Hosted and Non-Hosted Version?

saas December 31, 2006

This has been the longest time elapsed between posts (12 days) since this blog started over a year ago. Apologies for that. I’m traveling in India for the holidays (which is where I’m…

Go West, Young Entrepreneur! Is The Valley Better For Software Startups?

startup December 12, 2006

I want to start out by saying that this is one of the more troubling articles that I’ve written for this blog. The topic is something that is near and dear to my heart (i.e. Boston as…

Marketing In A Web 2.0 World: Why The Best Products Sometimes Win

guest December 11, 2006

Note: This is a guest article written by Andy Singleton. Andy is a career software professional and is one of the few people I know that can not only talk the talk, but walk the walk.…

Pithy Insights On Selecting A Startup Co-Founder

December 8, 2006

This is a new installment in my continuing series of “pithy” articles on a variety of startup topics. You can see one of the more popular previous ones here: “17 Pithy Insights For…

Why It Will Be So Easy To Switch Away From Google Search

December 4, 2006

My friend and colleague Brian Halligan has written an exceptionally interesting article in his internet marketing blog today titled “Why Google Will Set The Record For The Greatest…

Web 2.0: On Bubbles and Business Models

guest November 30, 2006

As I’ve noted on many earlier occasions, a lot of the best content on this blog are reader contributions via their comments. If I were you, I’d be looking at some of the comments to…

Startup Founder Compensation: Useful Results From A Recent Survey

startup November 29, 2006

One of the questions I get asked most often here at OnStartups surrounds the issue of how to determine compensation (cash and equity) for the founding team. As you might imagine, this…

Commercializing Web 2.0: Hype vs. Reality

startup November 27, 2006

I’m scheduled to speak at the 9th annual MIT Venture Capital conference on December 2nd, 2006. The title of the panel session I’m participating in is “Commercializing Web 2.0: Hype…

Startup Failures: Five Ways To Crash Your Startup, Which Will You Pick?

strategy November 14, 2006

When talking about startups, it is interesting to talk about market forces, competition, product design and a variety of other things that founders believe they need to really…