Nothing teaches and prepares you to take on the World better than your own experience. So don’t wait. Just Get Started, the moment you think You wanna be an entrepreneur.  These are a few books, PDFs, Podcasts, Presentations etc from my notebook, I believe will be a great help to get started.

• Get a hint about Markets:

• Future of Web Applications (Podcasts)
• Annual MIT Venture Capital Conference Videos (Videos, List)

• Proto.in  ( Links, Videos,  Notes)
• Demo
• Techcrunch

• The Art of The Start by Guy Kawasaki (PDF, Video)
• Cost of BootStrapping ( PDF , MP3 )

• Getting Real (HTML)
• How to be Creative (PDF)
• OnStartups (Blog)

Its not that easy and all. But its a good start.

Stay tuned for more. If you have a link to a resource that You think will be useful wanna-be’s please add to it. ( Add as a comment or message to me).

This is what really makes a difference to a wider India. So far, growth has been confined to a few cities and causing chaos in terms of infrastructure. Its quite natural extension of oursourcing to go to rural areas, any corner of the world infact. The growth must go to Rural areas, to bring IT to everyone in India. And this is a big and hard step forward, but worth every penny and second spent.

Location is not important for most functions of any IT work, and doesn’t make sense to do it only in a city. I believe we have talent every where, and with littel tuning and training, we can leverage vast resources of Rural India. 

If MNCs move to India for cost advantage, why not move it further to Rural India where the Cost Advantage becomes a much bigger advantage. Not just that, it would bring entire country on to a similar level of growth and expowerment. I do not think at this point, there is any issue of Quality of work that can be done in Rural areas.  Its as good as what can be done in Bangalore or Hyderabad. Its the same people that moved from Rural India to cities for jobs.

The village of Ethakota in India’s Andhra Pradesh state hardly looks like a place that has been transformed by the Information Revolution. To get there, you take a 10-hour train ride from Hyderabad, the nearest big city, then drive an hour on narrow roads past rice paddies, coconut groves, and ponds teeming with prawns and crabs. The village itself is a collection of simple brick houses and thatch-roof huts. Yet in a tidy office shaded by 30-foot-tall palms, 50 young people sit at PCs connected to the Internet via a long-distance radio link, doing business process outsourcing (BPO) tasks such as checking expense account receipts for Indian corporations and arranging job interviews for applicants in distant cities.

They’re working for GramIT, a 16-month-old nonprofit that’s seeking to transplant India’s tech services boom to some of the country’s 600,000 villages

Source: Outsourcing Heads To the Outskirts

Photos of Proto.in

Around 100 photos of Proto.in 2007 Conference 

Source: Flickr: Search

Web Clips Notes

Here is my Google notes on the event. This page is getting updated every few minutes. So Stay tuned to see more notes on the event at the URL: Proto.in 2007

Participated Companies : Presentation

Here is a presentation made by Amit Ranjan describing in brief about each startup that was showcased at Proto.in 2007.

Here is the URL to Presentation.

Video Presentations at Youtube

More videos of Proto.in 2007 Presentations have been uploaded by Proto.in team. You can access all 23 of them (at this point) in One Play list here.

Here is a presentation made by Amit Ranjan describing in brief about each startup that was showcased at Proto.in 2007.

Here is the URL to Presentation.

Here is my Google notes on the event. Stay tuned to see more notes on the event at the URL: Proto.in 2007

Missing to attend in person to Proto.in, first Conference in India to showcase Entrepreneurial spirit of new India, I tried to find out by searching at Google how the first Proto.in conference went.

I already posted a link to Video Presentations of the event uploaded by the Proto.in team in a previous post.

Here is my Google notes on the event. I just had Blogosphere and News Search results in the notebook. Stay tuned to see more notes on the event at the URL: Proto.in 2007

Technorati Stats of Proto.in Coverage in Blogosphere, just showing 100 posts in last 30 days. I took a snapshot today morning. There are only couple posts added to it later in the day. You can actually see the clips of all new items and blog posts in my notebook.