Category: Startups

  • Current State of the Sri Lankan Startup Ecosystem: The Rude Awakening Show

    I posted a little infographic yesterday on Sri Lanka’s Startup Ecosystem. The intention was to create a conversation (which a lot of people have provided me feedback by now) within the community on what really matters to build a stronger community. I will recreate the infographic based on the findings the next few days. My…

  • Less is More: The Minimalist Entrepreneur

    If you have been working 18 hours per day, you’d exactly know what I’m about to write about. Micro-managing and trying to be involved too much in everything is a disaster. It effects your productivity, creativity and causes a lot more stress than you’d anticipate. I’m not necessarily talking about ‘lifestyle-type’ businesses here and I’m…

  • How We Made A ‘Minimum Viable Product’ For 2 Years And It Just Sucked!

    Back in 2010, our outsource model was growing. We were getting medium scale projects. I always worried about delivery of these with the limited amount of technical resources we had back then. After a few months of discussion, I ended up hiring one of close friends from an outsource model to head the technical team…