Cerebrata Story – A Prologue
Before we start talking about my experience running this company, let me share some of my experiences before Cerebrata which led to some of the decisions I made when we built products at Cerebrata. Not...
View ArticleCerebrata Story–Return To India
This post is for all my friends settled abroad and harboring the wish to return to India. I don’t mean to preach or encourage or influence them in any way to come to India. It’s a very personal and...
View ArticleCerebrata Story-First Few Months
It was July 2008 and I was back in India with absolutely no clue as to what I will be doing. I didn’t even had an office at that time. Had absolutely no clue as to how I am going to hire, and even if I...
View ArticleDear prospective employees, here’s what I ask of you and what you can expect...
NYTimes written a nice open letter to Indians Graduates and Post Graduates which touches upon nice things. You can read that article here:...
View ArticleCerebrata Story-Omega.SDSClient
So we had a product (Omega.MSSQL) which can be used to manage SQL Server databases through a browser based interface. Around the time I came back to India, Microsoft announced Windows Azure and one of...
View ArticleCerebrata Story–Cloud Storage Studio/e
In the last post about Cerebrata, I spoke about our first product Omega.SDSClient and how in a period of 4 months that product completed it’s lifecyle. You can read that post here:...
View ArticleCerebrata Story–Cloud Storage Studio
In the last post about our Cloud Storage Studio/e product, I mentioned how we stopped working on that product in favor of a desktop based product. In this blog post, I will write some details about...
View ArticleCerebrata Story – Marketing
In the previous post about Cloud Storage Studio, I walked you through our experience about building a product and making it commercially available. Now we were left with a gigantic task – How to market...
View ArticleCerebrata Story–Azure Diagnostics Manager
Continuing Cerebrata journey, in this blog post I will describe how we built our 2nd product – Azure Diagnostics Manager. History During the public beta phase of Cloud Storage Studio (CSS) before PDC...
View ArticleCerebrata Story – Azure Management Cmdlets
Continuing Cerebrata journey, in this blog post I will describe how we built our 3rd product – Azure Management Cmdlets. In short this product contains a number of PowerShell Cmdlets for managing...
View ArticleCerebrata Story – Team Management
In this post about my journey with Cerebrata, I will talk about team management (erstwhile known as Human Resource Management or at times in India as Personnel Management). Our team management policies...
View ArticleCerebrata Story – Customer Service
In this blog post, I will share our experience regarding the most important aspect of running a company – customer service. To me, nothing is more important for a company than to providing the best...
View ArticleCelebrating The Spirit Of Entrepreneurship: “Prarambh”– A 32 Hour Startup...
Over this weekend (March 7th – 9th, 2014), Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur’s Entrepreneurship Cell “Saksham” organized a 32 hour startup challenge event. The event which was first of its...
View ArticleWhat Startups Can Learn From Aam Aadmi Party
For those who have been closely watching Indian Parliament elections concluded recently, you already know who Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is. For those who don’t know, AAP is the youngest political party...
View ArticleWhat Startup Founders Can Learn From Ocean’s Eleven Movie
I’m a huge fan of movie Ocean’s Eleven. In fact, I watch this movie every time it comes on TV. For those who don’t know about this movie, in short it is a heist film where George Clooney along with 10...
View ArticlePrarambh 2015 – A Recap
Over the weekend of Feb 20 – 22nd 2015, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur’s Entrepreneurship Cell “Saksham” organized a 32 hour startup challenge event (Prarambh). This was the 2nd time an...
View ArticleMy Thoughts On Current Euphoria Over Startups In India
Nowadays everyone wants to do a startup. There is a general feeling that if they are not doing a startup, they are not doing anything . I was listening to an old song by Amitabh Bachchan and took the...
View ArticleCerebrata Story – Marketing
In the previous post about Cloud Storage Studio, I walked you through our experience about building a product and making it commercially available. Now we were left with a gigantic task – How to market...
View ArticleCerebrata Story–Azure Diagnostics Manager
Continuing Cerebrata journey, in this blog post I will describe how we built our 2nd product – Azure Diagnostics Manager. History During the public beta phase of Cloud Storage Studio (CSS) before PDC...
View ArticleCerebrata Story – Azure Management Cmdlets
Continuing Cerebrata journey, in this blog post I will describe how we built our 3rd product – Azure Management Cmdlets. In short this product contains a number of PowerShell Cmdlets for managing...
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