Bootstrap in Bangalore

I am planning a book – Bootstrapping in Bangalore.

The idea is to blog regularly (once in a week) on this topic and evaluate 1) whether the idea is worth publishing 2) the author is worthy of the book

In the last 2 years I have learnt a lot in the course of bootstrapping my own business, however, the purpose is not as much to give business insights (which I don’t have many anyways) but more to give practical guidelines on what worked – for me or for others. Hopefully, through this blog more suggestions and experience will flow in that can be aggregated. I have been fortunate to have a small ecosystem in bangalore of fellow enterpreneurs on whose experience I can dig into.

Specifically, I will concentrate on the starting out and strategies which make sense when you are a 5 people company are sometimes the opposite of what makes sense in a 50 people one. I wish I had been writing this while I was doing this, but when you are trying to start a company who has the time or the focus! I hope I am not too late.

The audience

Today I met Mayank who is from my college (few years junior) and wanted to discuss a business idea that he and friends are pursuing. I was bit surprised but I had answers to many of his questions and many questions to which he did not have answers. I think my audience is people like Mayank who want to start something, are not sure what lies ahead and maybe need that little motivation to go ahead and do it. If some tips in this book/blog can save a few weeks of precious time in the first few months of a startup I would say the purpose is achieved.

Bootstrapping in bangalore is not so difficult as it seems at first thought. If this book/blog can convince some budding enterpreneurs-on-the-fence to take the plunge I would feel elated.