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Building a team under the best of circumstances is difficult at best. As technology entrepreneurs, we will look for co-founders or senior management team members that have experience in engineering, sales/marketing, biz dev, management, fund raising and so the list goes on. In places like New York or Silicon Valley or London, it’s a bit [...]
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This is part I in a series of posts about issues faced by Teknatus Solutions Private Limited in India from 2007 – 2010. Being the first part, I’m going to look at the steps needed to get a business registered in India. I’ll examine the case of a foreign national/foreign company looking to setup an [...]
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In early 2007, we made a commitment to open our office in New Delhi, India and begin building a platform to help connect India’s unskilled labor force with the Indian middle and upper class that had a requirement for unskilled labor like nannies, cooks, maids, drivers and other domestic services. We finally opened our office [...]
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URL Shortening services like Bit.ly have been all the rage with the popularity of Twitter and other micro-blogging services. As some of us use Twitter quite a bit for sharing links to various sites and blog posts, we’re sending lots of traffic to people that isn’t easily identifiable beyond the URL shortening service being used. [...]
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Sunday, October 25th was another installment of BarCamp Delhi. The turnout was intimate and the location, IMI (International Management Institute) was a much better place than the last two BarCamps at IIT Delhi and MDI – Gurgaon. It was also refreshing to see quite a few new faces this time around. The bulk of the [...]
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We’ve decided to move Semblr to it’s own blog from the Teknatus blog to separate out the content specific to Semblr from other posts on Teknatus related to business, economics, finance, and coding. We just did a new release of Semblr on Sunday. Most of the changes are under the hood meant to improve the [...]
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I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Semblr.com, an online marketplace, dedicated to helping job seekers find work and buyers find talent they need to fulfill their business needs.
Our goal was to create a website both for job seekers and buyers that provided flexibility and was easy to use. Here’s a quick overview of how it works:
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Eric Rosenfeld, one of the founders of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), gave this presentation at MIT back in February. If you have even a remote interest in finance (and even if you don’t), this is an hour and a half very well spent. Eric is brilliant and fun to listen to. Update: Sorry about that, [...]
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It’s been a long road, oft-delayed, but we’ve officially started our private beta of Semblr today. The basic premise around Semblr is simple. It’s an online marketplace where you can assemble your team of experts using a reverse auction process. It’s a market where people that are looking for work can connect with people that [...]
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Twitter opened up their OAuth implementation last week. It’s a much welcome aspect of working with Twitter’s API since we’re planning on implementing some functionality into Semblr that uses Twitter. Hence, understanding OAuth and prototyping it’s use was important for us.
My problem with Twitter’s implementation is that the documentation is sparse and there isn’t a single example in Perl or Java. Maybe these two languages aren’t cool enough to warrant examples but to me, they’re important because they’re all I know. I spent some time over the last few days trying to implement OAuth for Twitter in my Perl scripts. The example below is a bit messy but it works.
It will create a few temp files, request a token for you, ask you to go to the URL printed to authorize the application. When you’ve authorized the application, run the script again and it will allow you to submit a status update.
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