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I am starting - Indian firm based on the YC framework

25 points by Chirag 17y ago

prabodh 17y ago
"I am starting is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups " who are you..? Would be beter to know you before thinking of applying... Chirag..is it your own venture ?
- Chirag 17y ago
  This is my venture by my friend. and actually this thread was to just to let people know there is this firm if Indian start up need investment.
  - prabodh 17y ago
    and what is your friend name/profile ?
    - Chirag 17y ago
      names have been updated, i am working on a small bio.
colinplamondon 17y ago
Seriously? It doesn't mention who you actually are, there's spelling problems all over the place, and the header looks like you're pitching kindergartners. You should take down the site, nuke this thread, get your stuff together, and relaunch in six months.
yannis 17y ago
The blank gif shows in chrome as a missing image (really ugly) http://iamstarting.com/Blank.gif http://iamstarting.com/Blank.gif. Looks very unprofessional overall - invest in a designer first and relaunch.
_debug_ 17y ago
Feedback : I would like to know the team behind "I am starting" before I can trust you with my ideas. It's exactly as you say : "people & ideas, in that order". First, I need to know who you are, and then whether "I am starting" is for me or not.
- Chirag 17y ago
  Thanks @Debug point taken will work on that section today.
chaosprophet 17y ago
It's good that someone is trying a YC like format in India and I hope you don't have crappy rules like iaccelerator. However, you seriously don't inspire any confidence or trust with that website and I would never take funding from someone who can't get me to trust him.
- Chirag 17y ago
  Its a website you don't inspire trust from a web-page, trust is usually a function of a human interaction.
  - patio11 17y ago
    you don't inspire trust from a web-page You do, actually. It is one of the core skills in building B2C websites, since a) you'll typically want your user to take some action that requires trusting you, like putting in their private information or paying you money and b) at B2C scales, one-on-one human interaction with all users is typically neither possible nor really desired. If the website doesn't inspire trust, the business is pretty much doomed. For example, for my site, I take pains to make sure the language I use matches the language my customers use, that the graphical design communicates professionalism, etc. If I don't do this, they'll lump me in with all the "scam artists and viruses on the Internet." This fundamental truth might be a good thing to learn prior to investing in or advising Internet businesses. Just my two cents from a very, very small B2C business.
Chirag 17y ago
Design can be overhauled later, and this is not a priority. As for spelling mistakes @colinplamondon, seriously. I give you a venture firm and all you can see it spellings, brilliant? The purpose of this site is to serve as a 2/3 para about the idea, not in for the webby folks.
- colinplamondon 17y ago
  My company's profitable and I'm American, not your audience. You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important. TechStars and YC aren't about the 15k- most of the companies who get accepted these days don't need it. TechStars and YC help people build successful products because the people behind both programs have a background of launching successful products, with rolodexes to match. Right now you're some guy with a website. No one cares. To make them care, you have to show why you're someone they should care about. That's marketing, and right now you aren't marketing. That's why, in your current incarnation, you're fucked. Rethink, redesign, relaunch, and then hopefully you can get this off the ground.
  - n9com 17y ago
    check out their code: <li><a title="Prety lady picks the phone and answers all the Queries! :)">Call Us: 09849042407</a></li> wth? is this venture firm serious?
  - zaph0d 17y ago
    Don't sweat over it. It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them. So @Chirag is not too queer if he thinks that he can pull off a YC in India by putting up a stupid website with crappy content, bad design and some random names of totally unknown people. It's OK, it's all right. Kindly adjust :) PS - I am an Indian startup-ist a$$hole.
    - plinkplonk 17y ago
Chirag 17y ago
Folks we are not looking for any more comments on the design and how it can be improved. This just works for us. If there are more ideas/feedack on rest of the content you are welcome. Thanks.
- volida 17y ago
  This is 2010. How come you think image/brand is not important and expect someone to take you seriously if you don't invest a few dollars in some professional graphic design? Your about section doesn't even have a link who is backing up this.
andrewcooke 17y ago
i understand you don't want feedback on the design, and i like the relaxed approach, but the inconsistent indentation on the third title (Finally...) really bugs me. i'd suggest moving it to the right to match the other two (and "What..." could go left a few pixels too). also, it's "you can be A student, ..." and "we reply TO all our...". and it's easier to read if you have "corporate-like, so" (with hyphen and comma).
sushi 17y ago
Alright no more criticism about designing although I am a web designer. Now over to serious stuff. The background of the people behind this endeavor should be the main selling point. I am more likely to share my idea with someone who has had similar experience, that is of starting and managing a startup. Money is important and I do find your investment range will go an extra mile in India but give some reasons to the entrepreneur to believe in you guys. Just one advice: Put some more info about this venture and the people behind this.
ananthrk 17y ago
Given that you are already in News.YC, I take that you know about YCombinator and why it is different from other similar firms. (Hint: PG & team) As others have suggested, having a brief profile of people behind this venture would greatly help.
- Chirag 17y ago
  We are working on that.
david927 17y ago
It's about time. India has everything going for it and I'm excited to see what this will produce. Congratulations!
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ideamonk 17y ago
Ah the css is so well commented to teach others/waste some bandwidth. +1 Hey guise so in the reset.css can we also replace "html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,.... { ..." with a single * ... you know like - * { margin:0; ... }
prog 17y ago
It may be good to add some more detail to the "Who we are" section. The names and expertise are fine, but perhaps something on the projects/companies these people have worked with. How much experience they have in the respective fields. E.g who is into economics, who is into technology etc. If you have founded (or funded) any startups, perhaps that can be mentioned. It would make you seem more accessible. In case of YC, PGs views and history where well understood and respected. You may want to highlight what value you bring to the table (other than the money).
subbu 17y ago
1. src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js. Use http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min... 2. $(document).ready() twice in the same document. Use only one. 3. id='pagewidth'. Use id='about'. My intention is not to point technical problems for the sake of it. But you should seriously treat this site itself as a little startup, invest your seed fund (your lowest band of 50k is enough. I know can do it for that amount :) into it and then start attracting other techies to join you. As part of knowing more about you, first thing any potential startupper will do in a browser (at least me) is press ctrl+u.
vimalg2 17y ago
Basically seems like a new pseudo-VC who's roped in a bunch of rich civilians into this great-YC-idea-you-know-small-stakes-small-investments-but-BIG-returns Fund. This is one of the cases where 'Launch Now, Fix later' doesn't really work out at all with your target audience.
Chirag 17y ago
All, Thanks for your passionate inputs this is my friends ventures not Mine. All these inputs are conveyed to concerned teams. BTW, I am working for NetApp, as a Marketing Manager :). Don't have a start-up yet. I can understand your anger, I am also an engineer.
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25 points by Chirag 17y ago

"I am starting is a new kind of venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups " who are you..? Would be beter to know you before thinking of applying... Chirag..is it your own venture ?

Chirag 17y ago
This is my venture by my friend. and actually this thread was to just to let people know there is this firm if Indian start up need investment.
- prabodh 17y ago
  and what is your friend name/profile ?
  - Chirag 17y ago
    names have been updated, i am working on a small bio.

colinplamondon 17y ago

Seriously? It doesn't mention who you actually are, there's spelling problems all over the place, and the header looks like you're pitching kindergartners. You should take down the site, nuke this thread, get your stuff together, and relaunch in six months.

yannis 17y ago

The blank gif shows in chrome as a missing image (really ugly) http://iamstarting.com/Blank.gif http://iamstarting.com/Blank.gif. Looks very unprofessional overall - invest in a designer first and relaunch.

_debug_ 17y ago

Feedback : I would like to know the team behind "I am starting" before I can trust you with my ideas. It's exactly as you say : "people & ideas, in that order". First, I need to know who you are, and then whether "I am starting" is for me or not.

Chirag 17y ago
Thanks @Debug point taken will work on that section today.

chaosprophet 17y ago

It's good that someone is trying a YC like format in India and I hope you don't have crappy rules like iaccelerator. However, you seriously don't inspire any confidence or trust with that website and I would never take funding from someone who can't get me to trust him.

Chirag 17y ago
Its a website you don't inspire trust from a web-page, trust is usually a function of a human interaction.
- patio11 17y ago
  you don't inspire trust from a web-page You do, actually. It is one of the core skills in building B2C websites, since a) you'll typically want your user to take some action that requires trusting you, like putting in their private information or paying you money and b) at B2C scales, one-on-one human interaction with all users is typically neither possible nor really desired. If the website doesn't inspire trust, the business is pretty much doomed. For example, for my site, I take pains to make sure the language I use matches the language my customers use, that the graphical design communicates professionalism, etc. If I don't do this, they'll lump me in with all the "scam artists and viruses on the Internet." This fundamental truth might be a good thing to learn prior to investing in or advising Internet businesses. Just my two cents from a very, very small B2C business.

Chirag 17y ago

Design can be overhauled later, and this is not a priority. As for spelling mistakes @colinplamondon, seriously. I give you a venture firm and all you can see it spellings, brilliant? The purpose of this site is to serve as a 2/3 para about the idea, not in for the webby folks.

colinplamondon 17y ago
My company's profitable and I'm American, not your audience. You aren't a gift, you're a business- your business is making entrepreneurs think you can further their business. Your website is unprofessional and doesn't mention who you are, and who you are is the most important. TechStars and YC aren't about the 15k- most of the companies who get accepted these days don't need it. TechStars and YC help people build successful products because the people behind both programs have a background of launching successful products, with rolodexes to match. Right now you're some guy with a website. No one cares. To make them care, you have to show why you're someone they should care about. That's marketing, and right now you aren't marketing. That's why, in your current incarnation, you're fucked. Rethink, redesign, relaunch, and then hopefully you can get this off the ground.
- n9com 17y ago
  check out their code: <li><a title="Prety lady picks the phone and answers all the Queries! :)">Call Us: 09849042407</a></li> wth? is this venture firm serious?
- zaph0d 17y ago
  Don't sweat over it. It's all because of an attitude which is typical to Indian pseudo-VCs. They think they are doing startup-ists[sic] a big favour by investing in them. So @Chirag is not too queer if he thinks that he can pull off a YC in India by putting up a stupid website with crappy content, bad design and some random names of totally unknown people. It's OK, it's all right. Kindly adjust :) PS - I am an Indian startup-ist a$$hole.
  - plinkplonk 17y ago

Chirag 17y ago

Folks we are not looking for any more comments on the design and how it can be improved. This just works for us. If there are more ideas/feedack on rest of the content you are welcome. Thanks.

volida 17y ago
This is 2010. How come you think image/brand is not important and expect someone to take you seriously if you don't invest a few dollars in some professional graphic design? Your about section doesn't even have a link who is backing up this.

andrewcooke 17y ago

i understand you don't want feedback on the design, and i like the relaxed approach, but the inconsistent indentation on the third title (Finally...) really bugs me. i'd suggest moving it to the right to match the other two (and "What..." could go left a few pixels too). also, it's "you can be A student, ..." and "we reply TO all our...". and it's easier to read if you have "corporate-like, so" (with hyphen and comma).

sushi 17y ago

Alright no more criticism about designing although I am a web designer. Now over to serious stuff. The background of the people behind this endeavor should be the main selling point. I am more likely to share my idea with someone who has had similar experience, that is of starting and managing a startup. Money is important and I do find your investment range will go an extra mile in India but give some reasons to the entrepreneur to believe in you guys. Just one advice: Put some more info about this venture and the people behind this.

ananthrk 17y ago

Given that you are already in News.YC, I take that you know about YCombinator and why it is different from other similar firms. (Hint: PG & team) As others have suggested, having a brief profile of people behind this venture would greatly help.

Chirag 17y ago
We are working on that.

david927 17y ago

It's about time. India has everything going for it and I'm excited to see what this will produce. Congratulations!

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ideamonk 17y ago

Ah the css is so well commented to teach others/waste some bandwidth. +1 Hey guise so in the reset.css can we also replace "html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6,.... { ..." with a single * ... you know like - * { margin:0; ... }

prog 17y ago

It may be good to add some more detail to the "Who we are" section. The names and expertise are fine, but perhaps something on the projects/companies these people have worked with. How much experience they have in the respective fields. E.g who is into economics, who is into technology etc. If you have founded (or funded) any startups, perhaps that can be mentioned. It would make you seem more accessible. In case of YC, PGs views and history where well understood and respected. You may want to highlight what value you bring to the table (other than the money).

subbu 17y ago

1. src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.4.1.min.js. Use http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min.js http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.1/jquery.min... 2. $(document).ready() twice in the same document. Use only one. 3. id='pagewidth'. Use id='about'. My intention is not to point technical problems for the sake of it. But you should seriously treat this site itself as a little startup, invest your seed fund (your lowest band of 50k is enough. I know can do it for that amount :) into it and then start attracting other techies to join you. As part of knowing more about you, first thing any potential startupper will do in a browser (at least me) is press ctrl+u.

vimalg2 17y ago

Basically seems like a new pseudo-VC who's roped in a bunch of rich civilians into this great-YC-idea-you-know-small-stakes-small-investments-but-BIG-returns Fund. This is one of the cases where 'Launch Now, Fix later' doesn't really work out at all with your target audience.

Chirag 17y ago

All, Thanks for your passionate inputs this is my friends ventures not Mine. All these inputs are conveyed to concerned teams. BTW, I am working for NetApp, as a Marketing Manager :). Don't have a start-up yet. I can understand your anger, I am also an engineer.

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