On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:47 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello All, > > I am a final year BE student. While most of my mates are sincerely > searching for a spot in the corporates, me and two of my friends > cherish a dream of creating a business for ourselves. We got something > like a few website development offers and that has motivated us > further. But we are not really going to stick to web development as > such and want to get into customized application development and > software deployment. > > > So, now the questions in my mind are: > 1. Can we really survive as a company creating application specific or > customized software for situations like the one I have mentioned > above? > Yes > 2. Is there really market for such software and services in India? > Kindly keep in mind FOSS. > Yes > 3. If there is a possibility to survive. Are we going to be judged by > the work we do or by the industry experience we have or supposed to > have? (Remember I am still at college) > On the work you do. Specifically, your timeliness and reliability. > 4. At last, how much are we going to be paid for these kind of jobs? > Keeping in mind that depends on the quality of work we do and our > ability to negotiate, I would like to know the scale where I would be > starting. > > This you'll have to explore and find out. Try something like assembla.org My advice is just jump into it. At worst, after a year or two, you would've have found concrete answers to all your questions! And you would be way ahead of your corporate classmates in terms of knowledge ans skills. I call it the MBA from the University of Life :-) Best of luck. mano -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo Picasso _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
