Interesting Article. I'm a dev student with entrepreneurial aspirations. Any other sites, twitter people, blogs where one can keep tabs on the Indian startup scene?
hackerstreet.in is reasonably active.
Why startups in India find it hard to hire devs
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
"copying well-established international websites and derive their success from paying attention to the Indian market before the country " I'm not sure if this is such a bad thing. Flipkart copied Amazon and its thriving in this country.
Very tangential, but I was just checking out Flipkart and some things are extremely inexpensive. Portal 2 and Crysis 2 are under $20 USD.
Most new PC games are prices less than Rs.999 in India (not just in Flipkart). Pre-order price of "Duke Nukem Forever" for example is just Rs.444 ($10).. I suppose it's one solution to rampant piracy of PC titles.
(XBOX 360 and PS3 titles are more or less priced the same as elsewhere)
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#23If you are a good dev/student and some bank is willing to lend you 40,000$, it is far easier to join a good US university for a masters degree and then get a job in Silicon valley.
So all you are left with are people who cannot take above option.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
"copying well-established international websites and derive their success from paying attention to the Indian market before the country " I'm not sure if this is such a bad thing. Flipkart copied Amazon and its thriving in this country.
Very tangential, but I was just checking out Flipkart and some things are extremely inexpensive. Portal 2 and Crysis 2 are under $20 USD.
what is even more interesting is that books are also much cheaper e.g. Algorithms by Cormen, et. al. cost only 6$. It would be interesting how eBooks are priced in India, as compared to US.
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#25#3 is actually the main issue, in my opinion.
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#26nice read.
Developers often go for big companies as they are getting excellent compensations but given the nature of a startup(i'm talking abt true startup- solving real problems), developers may be attracted.
Most of the good developers believe in solving hardcore problems. So you as a startup can provide them that. You cannot(unless you are heavily funded) compete with big companies on salary criteria.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very tangential, but I was just checking out Flipkart and some things are extremely inexpensive. Portal 2 and Crysis 2 are under $20 USD.
what is even more interesting is that books are also much cheaper e.g. Algorithms by Cormen, et. al. cost only 6$. It would be interesting how eBooks are priced in India, as compared to US.
Unfortunately they only ship to India...
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#28not only startups most smaller companies in general face the same problems.
I can quote 3 examples about top5 indian IT companies a) company A ,campus interview, selects 80% of the engineering college students(all branches) including students with arrears. b) company B, does not conduct aptitude for certain colleges as it would reduce the number of hires. c) company C, recruits people from specific companies without technical interviews
employees from my company have gone to larger companies to increase their market value in Arranged Marriages.
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#29Because founder wants to keep all the equity. Very few examples where early developers got share of success.
Is it really that different in silicon valley? The article states 1% as a laughably low number, but doesn't zuckerberg own nearly as much of facebook as all other employees combined? http://www.quora.com/Who-are-the-major-Facebook-shareholders...
Seriously? Aside from the fact that Facebook hasn't been a startup for years, it's probably produced more millionaires (at least on paper) among its employees than the entirety of the Indian startup community.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very tangential, but I was just checking out Flipkart and some things are extremely inexpensive. Portal 2 and Crysis 2 are under $20 USD.
what is even more interesting is that books are also much cheaper e.g. Algorithms by Cormen, et. al. cost only 6$. It would be interesting how eBooks are priced in India, as compared to US.
these are generally titles meant for countries in the indian sub-continent e.g. india, pakistan, bangladesh etc. usually, paper quality, printing quality etc. takes a nose-dive. for example, i have a sedgewick book with almost translucent pages, which makes it next to impossible to read anything...