Hi Suyash,
Well i tried my best to get people but sadly here in Mauritius, the main
goal after completing University is to find a job and work for the rest of
your life. I knew a guy who had lots of ambitions and he was like really
good in his field. But his aim was only to 'suit up' and go to work.
Well a real good example of startup with all the constraints that can
happen can be found in a tv serial, I think i did mention this before, it's
Silicon Valley*
Also the real startups out there i think start their business in their
garage and the team living in the same house and using it as an incubator.
This has a huge impact on businesses specially when working long hours or
have critical issues to fix.
*
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2575988/
On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Suyash Sumaroo <suyash_at_codevigor.com>
wrote:
> Hi Yuv,
>
> I think that this is what differentiates an entrepreneur from other
> people. We do not seek the 'comfort' of a well paid, secure job. Instead,
> we try to take risks to achieve something different.
>
> I also think that its very very very difficult to achieve something alone.
> You always need a good team around you. The main skill is to surround
> yourself with the best people. Easier said than done though, :-)
>
> I think we should meet some day between entrepreneurs and other interested
> people. The 4th Jan seems to be a very good idea. I'm all in too. Let's
> start 2016 the right way. Let's also send a signal that despite all the
> difficulties we have as entrepreneurs, we will still go on - which is, in
> my opinion, what defines a real entrepreneur.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Yuv Joodhisty <locustv2_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sten and MIU guys,
>>
>> I recently decided to try and launch a startup. I discussed about the
>> idea with some friends and all of them said go for it, but neither offered
>> to help. Well i hope you get a brief idea about launching a startup here in
>> Mauritius everyone says it's good but no one want to take any risk.
>>
>> Well i was alone, thought a lot about everyday and finally decided to go
>> for it now instead of waiting and getting more responsibilities (family
>> stuff, marriage, children and stuff). Didn't take long to resign from my
>> job started doing everythign to make it possible. I already did all of the
>> registration stuff and now working and hoping to see light this coming
>> year.
>>
>> I did meet a guy who shared the idea and decided to start on something
>> very small to see whether he was worth it, but i think he got lost in some
>> blackhole. Haven't heard from him again.
>>
>> But personally, i can say that there are a lot of constraints to a fast
>> and successful startup here in mauritius. It's hard to get help, specially
>> financial. I am working on 2 and soon 3 projects, all incomplete, and I
>> still have no investor. There is probably smeda which would fund me but i
>> guess for this to happen i'd have to already have my application/website up
>> and ready for business, right?
>>
>> But for the time being i'm doing everything with the little finance i
>> have. Well that's the risk i accepted to take.
>>
>> Other constraints that i have encountered are:
>>
>> - I worked with a lot of api including Paypal, Amazon, Google,
>> Facebook and Youtube, but what is the point if paypal and amazon would be
>> useless here in Mauritius? Even though paypal allows Mauritian accounts to
>> receive funds, who would use it in Mauritius to buy local products? Amazon
>> does not ship to Mauritius and to become an ebay affiliate you need a very
>> high traffic website which i don't have yet.
>> - I work on web applications using frameworks and not CMS** (not
>> creating website for others, but creating application that can be used by
>> others), and since i am alone, i need to work on backend, frontend, manage
>> servers and system admin. Well that takes a lot of time to deliver.
>> - When you are in the startup atmosphere, you ask yourself a lot of
>> time, "Will it work?", "Will people use my services?" and other stuff which
>> can sometimes make you want to give up.
>>
>>
>> Instead of waiting for startups to emerge, ask yourself if you would like
>> to take the risk and start a startup yourself, then you might get your
>> answer whether there is hope in Mauritius. I accepted the challenge, do
>> you?
>> I can accept failure but I cannot accept not trying. ;)
>>
>> Well, i'm open to discuss about startups and i don't mind a meetup on
>> Monday, Jan 4th. Maybe i could use some ideas as i am new.
>>
>> **Personally i think CMS lack so much features that at one point you will
>> have to break your architecture and rebuild it. CSM should be used for
>> small websites such as restaurants and not for large projects.
>>
>> Regards
>> Yuv
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 4:58 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Sten, Rajnish, Ish, Vincent, Suyash,
>>> At 02:26 28-12-2015, Sten Tamkivi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks you so much for reaching back out to my twitter inquiries, S!
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sten, I hope that your family and you are visiting the beaches and
>>> enjoying the vacation. :-)
>>>
>>> I am copying this message to the Chief Technical Officer of the Ministry
>>> of Technology, Communication and Innovation. I'll comment below.
>>>
>>> As a quick way of introduction, I'm a co-founder and CEO of <
>>>> https://teleport.org>Teleport, a startup where we build software for
>>>> people to move to their best place to live and work.
>>>> In my past 15 years as a software entrepreneur, I have also served for
>>>> 8 years as an early executive at Skype, entrepreneur in residence at
>>>> Andreessen Horowitz, advisor to President Ilves of Estonia on the topics of
>>>> innovation and entrepreneurship, etc.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I work as a consultant for Eland Systems. I am a subject-matter expert
>>> for email, web and a few other internet-related technologies. I also do
>>> research related to security and privacy.
>>>
>>> When I travel to new places, I always try to get somehow in touch with
>>>> the local startup scene. As it happens I am in Mauritius now, on holidays
>>>> with my family. As this trip was quite rapidly planned and I understand it
>>>> is the middle of the summer, I don't have too high hopes, but nevertheless
>>>> — if anyone knows oof any upcoming tech gatherings or would like to set up
>>>> a meetup with even a few of the local budding entrepreneurs/angels, let me
>>>> know. If lack of inspiration and network are the local issues, very happy
>>>> to talk about those. Estonia is the size of Mauritus by population, and we
>>>> had virtually no startup scene until about 10 years ago - and it is now
>>>> bustling with 400 companies. So cool things can happen in small, faraway
>>>> places.
>>>>
>>>> I'm around until Jan 5th.
>>>>
>>>
>>> People are enjoying the end of the year season. It is going to be
>>> difficult to organise something before the 5th January 2016. I like what
>>> you wrote about cool things can happen in small, faraway places. Would you
>>> be interested in sharing your experience of the startup scene in Estonia in
>>> a panel discussion? The Ministry of Technology, Communication and
>>> Innovation could send an official to represent it on the panel if the
>>> Ministry is interested in fostering entrepreneurship or innovation. There
>>> would have to be some local persons interested in startups. I can ask the
>>> local press whether it would be interested in hosting the event. I am not
>>> sure whether there will be sufficient time to reach out to local angels.
>>>
>>> Is the above worth a try?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> S. Moonesamy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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