Starting a new venture is an exciting endeavor, but it often requires financial support to turn ideas into reality. The early stages of a startup’s growth involve securing funding, which can be a complex process. In this blog post, we’ll explore the different funding stages, from Pre-Seed to Series-A, and discuss various funding options available … Read moreFunding Rounds: From Pre-Seed to Series-A
As a startup founder, one of the crucial steps in securing investment is providing potential investors with access to your data room. This secure repository holds detailed information about your company, business model, traction, and financials, allowing investors to validate the claims made during your pitch. In this blog post, we will explore the basics … Read moreData Room Basics for Startups: What and Why
For startups, measuring success and planning for the future requires a keen understanding of their financial health. One crucial metric that plays a pivotal role in assessing stability and growth potential is Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). MRR is a valuable indicator of a startup’s ability to generate predictable and sustainable revenue streams on a monthly … Read moreCalculating Monthly Recurring Revenue for Startups: Key Metric for Sustained Growth
When investors provide funding to startups, they often negotiate certain rights and privileges to protect their interests and maximize their returns. One such right is known as “pro rata rights.” In this post, we delve into the concept of pro rata rights, explaining what they are and providing example to illustrate their significance for both … Read moreUnderstanding Pro Rata Rights in Startup Investments
As I’ve been both a mentor and in charge of creating several startup incubation programs (7 by my last count) I’ve created the following list of topics which, if you run a startup incubator of your own or plan to start one, may find highly useful. Of course, I appropriately call it the “Ultimate Startup … Read moreUltimate Startup Incubation Program
Hey there, folks! Today, I want to take you on a journey through my professional experience. It’s been quite a ride, filled with exciting ventures, unexpected turns, and some really cool projects. So grab your favorite beverage, sit back, and let’s dive into my detailed timeline! Let’s rewind back to 2006 when I joined my … Read moreMy Journey Empowering Entrepreneurs and Making Hardware Accessible
I know, it’s pretty weird, right? A massive tech nerd doubling as a dating coach. People are always surprised when they find out. Remember Will Smith in the movie Hitch? Well, that used to be my life. Here’s the story of how it all happened. I have always let curiosity lead me wherever it may. … Read moreHow I became a Dating Coach without trying
Hey there, fellow adventurers in the startup world! Today, I want to share with you why I’m so passionate about assisting early-stage startups. You know, those little seedlings of innovation that are just starting to sprout their roots. They face numerous challenges in their quest to conquer the market, and that’s where I come in … Read moreWhy I Love Helping Early-Stage Startups: A Journey of Growth and Innovation
Hey there! Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking to kickstart your startup journey? Well, you’re in the right place! With over a decade of experience as a serial entrepreneur myself, I’ve been through it all – founding multiple tech startups, overseeing product development projects, and even writing countless business plans. And now, I’m here to … Read moreStartup & Business Coach: Your Guide to Success
Date: 16 December, 2013 Location: New Delhi Team Size: 1 Details: Recently I got around to experimenting with Arduino coding after a gap of a few months. The LED Matrix Shield was built on a general purpose PCB with a little help from a friend with far superior soldering skills than I. To use the … Read moreLED Matrix Experiments with Arduino
Date: 30 August, 2012 Location: New Delhi Team Size: 1 Details: This project was done after Fuzzy C-Means project to help the first-year students of the junior M.Sc. batch of 2012-2014 from Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi understand the concept of Hard C-Means Clustering and help them understand MATLAB programming. It uses MATLAB … Read moreImplementation of Hard C-Means Clustering
Date: August, 2011- June, 2012 (3rd and 4th Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 1 Details: This project was created as part of the Minor and Major Research Project of the M.Sc. curriculum. Semester 3 Details: The main work in this semester was- 1. To explore … Read moreMap Building using Robotics
Date: May, 2012 (4th Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 1 Details: In this project the humanoid distinguishes between two different types of colors. The application developed enables the humanoid to successfully distinguish between red and blue colored balls by using its IR sensor. The humanoid … Read moreColor Detection using Bioloid Premium Type-C Humanoid
Date: April, 2012 Location: Appin Technology Lab Team Size: 1 Details: What fun is a robot whose movement cannot be controlled? Most of the robot enthusiasts out there modify the hardware based bristle bot using RC motors and use remote controls to move them. But I didn’t want to do the same old stuff. So … Read moreProgrammable Bristle-Bot
Date: 6 December, 2011 (3rd Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 1 Details: This code allows embedding of textual data in the least significant bit (LSB) of pixels of a .jpg image and then retrieve the text back from the pixels and display it to the … Read moreEmbedding and Extraction of text in Digital Images
Date: November, 2011 (3rd Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 1 Details: This project was created as an assignment in the Digital Image Processing class. The questions were: 1. Consider any image. Create 5-6 noisy images from this image. Now find out their average. Compare the … Read moreExploring various aspects of Digital Image Processing
Date: September, 2011 Location: HCL Career Development Center. Team Size: 1 Details: This project was made during Linux Administration & Security certification. The steps for creation and configuration of the Apache HTTP server are detailed in the report. The presentation shows the steps performed sequentially. Project Report and its Power Point Presentation can be found … Read moreCreating and Configuring Apache HTTP Server
Date: June, 2011 Location: Grey Orange Robotics Pvt. Ltd. Team Size: 2 Details: This project was a stepping stone to learning about the working of bipeds and humanoids. This project involved studying of the various kinematics and joints associated with the humanoids. The videos below show some of the movements programmed into the humanoids. Various … Read moreHumanoid
Date: June, 2011 Location: Grey Orange Robotics Pvt. Ltd. Team Size: 1 Details: Built using three Dynamixel AX-12+ motors, and brackets from Bioloid Premium Kit, this project was made to gain practical experience in humanoid part assembly, understanding the use of inverse kinematics and splines and for learning to control AX-12+ motors through arduino. Humanoid … Read moreHumanoid Arm
Date: April, 2011 (2nd Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 3 Details: This project was created as an assignment for the Compiler Design class. C code can be found here.
Date: March, 2011 (2nd Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 3 Details: This implementation of the K-Means Clustering Algorithm was created as an assignment in Data Mining class. C code can be found here.
Date: November, 2010 (1st Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 3 Details: Database Management System was developed with limited query functions as an assignment given for the Database Systems & Implementation subject. C++ code can be found here.
Date: November, 2010 (1st Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 1 Details: This code was developed as an assignment for the Computational Intelligence class. Multi-Robot Task Allocation Algorithm and its MATLAB implementation can be found here.
Date: 24 September, 2010 (1st Semester of M.Sc. Computer Science) Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi. Team Size: 1 Details: This code is used to perform a modified Fuzzy C-Means Clustering on a dataset. A fixed number of clusters are created and the data points are alloted to clusters with a certain coefficient. … Read moreImplementation of Fuzzy C-Means Clustering
Date: April, 2010 (8th Semester of B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering) Location: Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Team Size: 2 Details: This application was developed for the major project of the B.Tech. curriculum. With this application it is possible to add photos and details of a person in database … Read moreFace-Recognition Application using MATLAB
Date: November, 2009 (7th Semester of B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering) Location: Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Team Size: 1 Details: Created for minor project of B.Tech., this robot is controlled using a cellphone that is placed with the robot. The user makes a call to the to the … Read moreCell-Phone Controlled Mobile Robot
Date: November, 2009 (7th Semester of B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering) Location: Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Team Size: 1 Details: This project was made for the final seminar in B. Tech. curriculum. The use of canny algorithm in edge detection applications is explained here along with a crude … Read moreCanny Algorithm for Edge Detection in Digital Images
Date: July, 2009 Location: Robosapiens India. Team Size: 2 Details: This robot is used to detect the end of a table using two IR sensors placed a little in the front of the robot. The robot uses an ATmega16 micro-controller. The micro-controller is programmed using Embedded ‘C’ in AVR Studio and the code is burned … Read moreEdge Avoider
Date: June, 2009 Location: Robosapiens India. Team Size: 2 Details: This robot is used to follow a black line by using two IR sensors placed a little in the front of the robot. The robot uses an ATmega16 micro-controller. The micro-controller is programmed using Embedded ‘C’ in AVR Studio and the code is burned onto … Read moreLine Follower
Date: October, 2008 (5th Semester of B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering) Location: Guru Tegh Bahadur Institute of Technology, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Team Size: 1 Details: This project was created in October to showcase the knowledge of the certification course completed as part of the two month summer training (June-July, 2008) in .NET from … Read moreGarment Shop Management System in .NET Framework