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I have a startup and things have started working well after I decided to move out of job.

Being a first time entrepreneur I may be thinking in wrong direction or may not at all looking at some bigger picture or may be ignoring something which is very basic but important.

Hence I think a mentor can play a role here.

So my question here is, how do I find out a mentor ? Or rather, how do i “choose” a mentor ?

Does getting incubated helps (in India) ? If yes, again, how do I choose one ?

Thoughts please…

I want to share something about someone

Right time to share because otherwise people will think I am making stories

It started in his early days. He was a kid.

He was in 5th standard when he started his first venture. During summer vacation he started a comic library. He used the terrace to display all the comics and maintained a register to keep a note about all users.

2nd thing he tried when he was in graduation. He got in touch with someone in Singapore and wanted to sell a hardware device which was supposed to protect data. But because he didn’t got any support from family he was unable to actually get into that. Why family didn’t supported is a different story.

3rd was after his first job and was related to mobile value added services (VAS)/ game development. Without any experience/ background in business he got in touch with very senior guys in telecom domain. I think that was a good achievement.

And then Microsoft came into picture and rest is what everyone knows.

This guy is Ruchit

Founder of eventNu & 9slides

So what I wanted to say is, the entrepreneur bug is within since childhood.

Be the entrepreneurship wins.

All the best.

Early stage startups usually do not have enough funds to offer to experienced guys and hence working with interns make sense to some extent.

On the other hand, for interns it make sense because they get first hand experience of real world that can help them when they complete their studies and move out of their colleges.

So its a a win-win situation.

But working with interns could be very challenging. Its important that they properly understand the objective, importance and are also as excited as the founders are.

I happened to read a post here and found following interesting points:

# Get Them Excited
# Get Them Doing Real Work
# Give Them Instant Feedback
# Make Them Feel Awesome

Thanks to Benjamin Pollack who shared his thoughts.

back again after a looooong gap

hope to write something soon

much awaited site SakshamGarg is now launched

i always wanted to catch various moments related to my kid. was doing same for some time and now finally got some time to launch it.

i hope Saksham will like this (obviously once he starts understanding all these things)

this incident happened recently when i was attending a relative’s marriage. i happened to listen someone talking about their life in general and was really surprised to listen about the discussion on love and life.

they were listening to some romantic hindi song and started discussing that how much they used to dream these kind of things when they were young. they used to put themselves as if they are actors of that song/ movie and used to dream a lot.

but life is not really like that for all. because of family & society they never ever thought (read dared) of  loving anyone. although they were not really regretting what they are now and not really unhappy with their life partner but they feel that they should have atleast loved someone. atleast tried or thought of someone being as their life partner. they regret a bit about that. they said that atleast they should have loved someone and experienced and felt what is love at young age.

i was quitely listening to all that and was really surprised.

i think once you realize what all can be done and achieved you start comparing your past and current life with others and somewhat regret if they themselves never done.

life is all about strange things.

should we really try everything ? should we love someone ?

In a DynamicForm one of the formItem is pickTree …….

editorType: “pickTree”

The default selected value of this select item is “Choose a value”.

If we want to change this text to some other text then use ‘buttonProperties’ attribute

e.g. buttonProperties: { unselectedTitle: “Choose” }

If there is a DynamicForm inside a Window and you are wondering why form values are not appearing in corresponding text boxes then try playing with the window size. Increase the window size by setting Window property size.

e.g size: 300

if you are using RPCManager.sendRequest() and defining a callback function there itself then you need to take care about use of httpResponseCode …

using 2 examples …. notice difference in parameters and their use …..

example 1 ………

RPCManager.sendRequest({
data: null,
callback: function(rpcResponse, data, rpcRequest){
if (rpcResponse.httpResponseCode == 200) {
var jsonObj = eval(”(” + rpcResponse.httpResponseText + “)”);
// do something here //
}
},
httpMethod: “GET”,
contentType: “application/json”,
useSimpleHttp: true,
actionURL: “/some/url/”
});

example 2 ………

RPCManager.sendRequest({
data: null,
callback: function(data){
var jsonObj = eval(”(” + data['httpResponseText'] + “)”);
// do something here //
},
httpMethod: “GET”,
contentType: “application/json”,
useSimpleHttp: true,
actionURL: “/some/url/”
});

in the 1st example i used

callback: function(rpcResponse, data, rpcRequest)

and in 2nd i used

callback: function(data)

the difference is in parameters

in both the case we get response in httpResponseText but the difference is how we fetching that value. if we are using all the 3 parameters then we get this value as rpcResponse.httpResponseText and NOT as data['httpResponseText'] which is actually in case if we use only 1 parameter

For those using SmartClient JS library, here is a small but handy help.

If you are trying to fetchData of a DataSource and wondering why it is not fetching new records and why it is not even calling the given URL then check the “clientOnly” attribute.

If clientOnly is true (clientOnly:true) then the datasource will NOT contact the server.

set it to false i.e.

clientOnly:false