The document discusses Intridea, a web and mobile services company based in Washington DC. It summarizes their products, including Presently an enterprise microblogging platform and Grub.it, a new mobile app for reviewing dishes at restaurants. The majority of the document provides tips for launching a web product fast and cheap, including choosing the right tools like Ruby on Rails, deploying to Heroku, and establishing analytics and feedback systems. It concludes by asking for audience input on challenges of doing startups in India such as finding entrepreneurial talent and lack of mentorship.
The Big Wave of Indian Startups - Almost Effortless Entrepreneurship Using Ruby
1. The Big Wave of Indian
Startups
(Almost) Effortless Entrepreneurship Using
Ruby
PRADEEP ELANKUMARAN
@PRADEEP24
2. About Intridea
Intridea is a high-end web & mobile services and
innovations shop
Based out of Washington DC, but dispersed all
over the United States
Our most popular product is Presently, an
enterprise microblogging platform
Grub.it is our latest product - mobile dish
reviewing
3. 3/4’s of this talk
creating a product FAST
creating a product CHEAP
keeping you sane through the process
growing your startup
4. last quarter of the talk...
Doing startups in India
mandatory audience participation! :P
finding good talent in India
fostering a community
5. grub = food in american vernacular
mobile app allows you to review dishes at
restaurants
find dishes near you that other people rate highly
never been done before, but an app we always
wanted
soft-launched last week