Introduction :
Sabeer HoTMaiL Bhatia is perhaps the biggest icon for every techno-entrepreneur out there. He brought the world’s attention to the technopreneurial brilliance of Indian Engineers .Sabeer Bhatia is one of the poster boys of Indian success story at Silicon Valley. He is better known as the man who co-founded Hotmail. While many can only dream of making the deal of the century, Sabeer Bhatia with his cool demure and shrewd thought process did the unthinkable and made a deal with the greatest dealmaker of all time Bill Gates.
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Never Settle:
The adage Rolling stone gathers no moss seems to be the Mantra for Sabeer Bhatia as he has always moved from venture to venture making most of them into success stories from his earliest days with Apple to the transition from Entrepreneur to Venture Capitalist and Angel Investor, Sabeer Bhatia has always been an eager and enthusiastic professional in the field of Computer Science. Making stride after stride and trying out varying career options.
Gut Instincts are Seldom Wrong:
On being asked about his historic deal with Microsoft, Sabeer Bhatia was quoted saying, “I think you have some gut instincts and you have to go on those,” says Bhatia. “And you have to give it a shot … to an entrepreneur it’s like a gamble, but you’ve got to take that chance.” Bhatia crafted the strategy of pitching a decoy idea to venture capitalists in order to see which ones he could trust his true idea with. His real idea turned out to be Hotmail, which offered free e-mail accounts that could be accessed over the Web.
Advice to Entrepreneurs:
“If you have a unique enough idea and you have been really careful about identifying a market need, this is actually a great time to start companies — but you have got to be very careful, in that you really hit a true market need. There are at least in three ways you can innovate in Silicon Valley. You can make something substantially cheaper at the same price, or you can make something substantially better at the same price or, with this new mantra of clean technology, you can make something substantially cleaner at the same or a reduced price. Advice I would give to entrepreneurs: Look to doing something which people are already familiar with, which people have already purchased in the past, but try to see if you can shave the cost and provide the same value at a lot cheaper price.”