A lot of us might have lost someone, lost a job, faced suffering, faced struggles, faced depression and more last year. The first question we ask ourselves is “Why is happening to me?”. Instead, try asking “What is it trying to teach me?”.

Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.

If we don’t heal what hurt us, We’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut us.

Everything in life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Through out life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if we stay focused, then we learn our lessons.

When we learn our lessons, the pain goes away.

I’m fascinated by the idea of what suffering does to people. It’s often a healing and transformative experience for people who rise above it. No matter how much it hurt us, someday we will look back and realise our struggles changed our life for the better.

We will fail.
We will fall.
We will suffer.
We will struggle.
We will break.

But then,

We will learn.
We will rise.
We will heal.
We will overcome.
We will become better humans.

As 2019 starts, I hope we get time to reflect on what our failures, struggles and suffering last year is teaching us.

The cost of failure is learning.

If we don’t, we will make the same mistakes again. Mistakes are no longer mistakes when we learn from them, that’s when they become lessons.

I hope we all have an awesome year ahead!

Think of your family as a cult.

When you are young, they take your pure, clean mind and brainwash it into their way of thinking, behaving & believing.

We are all cult members to some degree. We all spend time in one cult after another. That’s why its call Cult-ure. We all are part of a cult in one way or another while others start their own Cult-ure and invite others to come along.

The statement would still hold true if you substituted family with any number of other terms. Religion/Friends/society/social media/educational institutions.

For some, the greatest task of life is undoing all the influence and the damage of the Cult-ures they grew up in.

Children are not taught to think. Any child who raises questions is usually told to shut up. Kids must be taught how to think not what to think.

When you leave the cult, your task is to return your mind to the pure state it was in before you joined, retaining only anything useful.

You got to frame your own modeling of the world, unlearn everything you have been taught so far and reprogram your way of thinking.

Over the last few months, I have been to a couple of co-working spaces like WeWork, CoWrks, 91springboard, Innov8 Coworking™ and few startup offices. A while ago when Freshworks Inc opened up one of their floors, a few folks in the startup community I knew were of the opinion that they were spending too much money on their workspace. Girish Mathrubootham showed me and few folks around the same floor before they opened it up for their employees to work there when we were at Freshdesk for an event around the same time. I was fascinated by the amount of thinking, planning, and effort they had put into design their workspaces.

Over this past weekend, I was in Hampi. Over the last few days, I have been reading up on the architecture and about the monuments built in the 14th and 15th century. I’m amazed at the level of planning that kings put into designing their palaces, temples, and cities in those days. Those structures were built not just as a show of their power and wealth but also for practical everyday use be it their palaces, temples or places of learning. As I look at the amount of planning, effort and money spent on co-working spaces and office spaces these days, I think its worth every penny and effort to shape spaces in which our minds dwell every day. Here’s why!

So I’m fascinated by the extent to which the environment we live and works in molds and shapes us. Our thoughts shape our spaces but our spaces return the favor.

If you want to shape minds, you got to shape spaces in which those minds dwell. We are designed by that which we have designed.

You know these feedback loops are where our thinking evolves and knowledge emerges. And it turns out who we are you know as living beings in the world exists in that feedback loop, emerges in that feedback loop you know we learn language but then that language molds our personalities and then our molded personalities use language to speak out and then that which we read, learn and speak in turn changes us. And there’s this circularity right.

So we build the tools but then those tools build us. We build these smartphones and then these smartphones change how we think and they change our behavior. As I mentioned earlier our thoughts shape our spaces. We design the spaces we live and work but those spaces return the favor. So we build these schools, colleges, workspaces, cafes, places of worship etc and then those spaces build and shapes spaces inside our minds essentially.

We mirror the environment that we create to live, study and work.

Everything we are as personalities or humans is being created by the active engagement between our mind, the world and a feedback loops therein. Our creative and linguistic choices transform….literally transform our minds from within. The choices we make today for our dwellings, our places of learning or places of work has to be designed knowing that everything that you’re designing is designing us back. So we are being actively designed by that which we have designed.

So what is our responsibility then, when we build spaces and cities in this century? As Constructors, Architects, Interior Designers, Builders, Engineers, Artists, City planners ….

We need to take it upon ourselves to shape spaces that inform minds, to shape spaces that engineer ways of seeing and ways of thinking.

I’m just a thinker neither an architect, interior designer or a constructor. If you know someone who is one or runs a co-working space or their own company, please tag them in the comments below. Would love to get their thoughts!

To shape minds, shape spaces in which those minds dwell! was originally published in Startup Grind on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Focus on learning more than studying.

Because when you start learning, you become curious and in the process become creative. Creativity leads to imagination and thinking. When you start thinking you acquire knowledge and skill. Knowledge gives you power and helps you make a living!.

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge and skill. And more importantly your ability to combine this knowledge & skill and put it into practice.

Knowledge is like a treasure and practice is the key to it. Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Knowledge has a beginning but has no end. Learning and acquiring knowledge doesn’t stop after college. Be a lifelong student! The more you learn, the more successful you become and also you earn more as a result of your success.

Money is just a by product of success. Success is a result of knowledge & skill put into practice day in and day out.

So Learn. Become curious & Creative. Start thinking and acquire knowledge & skill. Put acquired knowledge and skill into practice day in & day out. You will become successful.

Remember to be a student for life!

Check out my earlier blog post on why I started this fitness transformation journey.

21 kgs (46 lbs) down in 6 months with the right diet, determination, dedication, and consistency. From 85 kgs (187 lbs) to 64 kgs (141 lbs). From 26.8 % body fat to 10% body fat. From 28.4 BMI to 22.4 BMI. From being Fat (Obese) to Fit. From 34 to 29 inch waist size. From family packs to 6 packs. All in 6 months. No fat burners used till today. No steroids or injections. I love the grind and always like to hustle for the muscle!.

A 7 year dream of having a fitness model physique finally happening. Halfway there. If there is one thing that I have failed at repeatedly and wanted to accomplish the most in the last couple of years — it was this!. I don’t like being just a dreamer for long, I like to accomplish what I dream about. Been working out from 2013. A 7 year dream finally done in 6 months!

The photo on the left (first pic above) was taken in August, 2017 on the first day after I joined the gym again in July. I ended up deleting the original photo from my phone after I added a black and white filter to it. Symbolically telling myself that I never wanted to see that fat guy again and it was a thing of the past.

I’m just an ordinary guy who believes that extraordinary things are possible if you believe in your dreams and be willing to grind for it! I’m just a guy who believes “You can become anyone you want to be in your life if you believe in it and willing to hustle/grind/die for it”

Every year during January, I would make a resolution to be more fit that year, but failed every single year. Same happened this year as well!.

In November this year, I decided it was time that I stopped admiring other people’s fitness and physique and let other’s admire my physique and fitness. I decided to do men’s physique (which is lean muscular) not bodybuilding (I’m not bulking up, just shredding). I have always been training at gyms where the trainers have never accomplished what they promise to help you accomplish. I decided to train with someone who has accomplished what he promises. To accomplish anything, I believe you need a good mentor. To be the best at what you do, you got to learn from the best. Decided to train with this year’s Musclemania Asia Physique champion — Yuvaprakash Angamuthu. Known for his natural physique, He also won Musclemania India physique 2015 and 2016.

Yesterday marked 4 weeks since I started training with him from November. As the saying goes, If you want to have something in your life you never had before, You got to be willing to do things you’ve never done before.

This is one of the most challenging things that I have ever undertaken in my life. I train 6 days a week. I travel 25 kms (15 miles) a day to train under him. I used to hate cooking. But started cooking and prep my own meals every day. My lunch, evening snack and dinner is the same meal. My breakfast has been the same every day for the last 4 weeks as well. Although I’m allowed one cheat meal per week of 1000–1200 calories. I’m yet to take a cheat meal. I want to have my first cheat meal on Christmas. That’s how bad I want to do it, this time. Anything worth having in your life doesn’t come that easy.

Already seeing great results. I was 82 kgs(180 pounds) on November 1, today at 76.1 kgs (167 pounds). 6 kgs(13 pounds) down in 4 weeks. I have not been starving myself to reduce weight. I eat 5 meals a day but have to measure everything I eat using a digital kitchen scale. My body fat was at 26.8% on November 1, was 22.6% a week ago. Should now be around 20% I’m guessing (yet to measure).

If there is one thing I have learned from the last 4 weeks, it’s Physical change starts with mental change.The hardest thing is when I go out to a meeting or hang out with friends and watch them munch on things I can’t have. Learning to control your mind to not give into temptations. If you can learn to control your mind both while in the gym and while eating, you are going to make it. To me right now my body is a temple and I will not defile it. This month’s diet is next month’s body. I train my mind at the gym every day. When my body says I’m done while doing a workout, my mind says I can do a few more reps.

The other important thing is to have the right attitude. If you are doing it right you will feel the pain each time you workout. If you don’t feel the pain when you workout, I like to believe you are not doing it right. I look at pain as a sign of weakness leaving my body. I know each time I feel the pain, I’m becoming stronger than before. I know that all of this effort and pain will be worth it in the coming months.

As Arnold Schwarzenegger once said, “The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make the mind work for you and not against you.” I have a lot of respect for people who do this day in and day out for years naturally like me without taking any steroid injections. RESPECT!

I’m not putting this post up to get your likes and comments but doing it since I fear I’m going to fail like every time. I’m human after all!. I’m someone who dislikes going back on my word. Putting it out here for everyone to know, makes me liable to do it and not give up. Usually, I give up in the first 2 weeks. This time I crossed 4 weeks and this is slowly becoming a daily routine/habit. Sometimes I workout twice a day, because I’m not happy with the way I worked out in the morning.

I started my new year resolutions early. I will do it in the new year is just an excuse to procrastinate that I used every single year. But decided on November 1st, to not do that again. On my calendar, 2018 started on November 1, 2017. If you are like me, always wanted to accomplish something but failed every year. I urge you to start right now and not wait until New year.

The time to make a change happen in your life is
not next year,
not next month,
not next week,
not tomorrow,
it’s not even today,
IT’S RIGHT NOW!

The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started. So start now! A little progress each day adds up to big results.

It takes 4 weeks for you to see the change.
It takes 8 weeks for your friends and family.
It takes 12 weeks for rest of the world.
So Keep Going!

You have 24 days left this year to make a change in your life,
You have 24 days left this year to make an effort in your life,
You have 24 days left this year to make a difference in your life,
A 24 days deadline to make a small part of your dream come true.

Good Luck with whatever you want to accomplish! 👍🏻

The next couple of months is going to be very challenging for me. The easiest thing is losing body weight but the hardest thing is losing body fat. In the next couple of months, I hope to drop down to less than 15% body fat and start building muscles 💪🏻 🙈.

For the next 1 year with the right diet, determination, dedication, and consistency I’m going to make it happen this time!

Everyone on the Siftery team has had the experience of dealing with frustrating software that doesn’t meet our needs, or finding just the right one that changes the way we work and makes us 10 times more efficient than before.

We love software and we realize that behind every great product there’s a story and a team. To celebrate creators and the products they bring into the world, we decided to launch Siftery Creator Stories. I’m personally very excited about this launch, and it’s one of the main reasons I wanted to work with the Siftery team.

Creator Stories is a series of interviews with founders and builders sharing about the problem they’re solving, what motivates them, what makes them unique, interesting use cases, as well as what they use to build their product/company. Through doing these interviews, we want to celebrate creators and also give buyers a better narrative and understanding for why they should use a software product.

Before joining Siftery, I was one of the most active users on Product Hunt and I’m still an active contributor. Over the past few years, I have “hunted” over 1,200 products — a majority of them B2B software — and these products have been “upvoted” almost 250,000 times. I love doing this because I get to meet product creators and learn about their journeys. Building a product is hard, and growing a company to sustain it is even harder. I know as I’ve been a founder myself.

Siftery can play a unique role in helping drive the software revolution by making it easier for great products to be found, and for the best software to get into the right hands.

Thanks to all the awesome creators who inspire us and gave us their time to get this project started. To the rest of our community — we hope you’ll enjoy reading these stories. And if you have a story of your own that you’d like to share, just drop us a line at hello@siftery.com.

Introducing Siftery Creator Stories was originally published in Siftery Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Ever since I published how we got funded by 500 startups last month, a few founders reached out for advice on getting into the accelerator. Hence creating this guide list for anyone applying to 500 Startups accelerator.

500 Startups is a Silicon Valley venture capital seed fund & startup accelerator. Has invested in over 1500 companies in 50+ countries, and receives thousands of applications from startups who compete for 30 spots in their accelerator every quarter. 500 Startups run an accelerator program emphasizing design & user experience, distribution & customer acquisition, and lean startup practices & metrics. Investment team and mentor network has operational experience at companies including PayPal, Google, YouTube, Yahoo, AOL, Zynga, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple & Facebook.

500 Startups seed fund usually invests between $25K-$100K on the 1st check, and between $100K-$500K on following checks.

500 Startups accelerator is a fast-paced program hosted in San Francisco and Mountain View for 4 months. The standard terms for San Francisco & Mountain View accelerator are $125k in exchange for 5%, and charges a $25k fee for participation in the accelerator program.

One of the biggest benefits of going through the 500 Startups Accelerator program is having access to knowledgeable mentors. As founders going through the program, you will have access to the 500 Partners, seasoned entrepreneurs, experienced investors, or individuals with considerable expertise in their field to give feedback and offer you guidance. These mentors include top domain experts on important topics such as distribution, design, data, fundraising, and more.

From week to week, you’ll be exposed to a number of awesome talks, office hours, events, and hands-on mentorship in distribution,customer acquisition, metrics, design and UX, fundraising, PR, business development, and more. Here is a glimpse of what usually happens every week , but not limited to

• Weekly roundup meetings with all hands to report wins and losses.
• Direct points of contact with appointed 500 Startups partners or EIRs for advice and mentorship.
• Weekly fireside breakouts, collaborative lunches, and brainstorming sessions.
• Weekly inspiration talks with founders and CEO’s of successful tech companies (Box and Mailchimp to name a few).

500 Startups accepts application through AngelList.

FAQ & APPLICATION PROCESS

• 500 FAQ
• How do I apply to 500 Startups ?
• How not to apply to 500 Startups?
• How do you apply for the 500 Startups Accelerator?
• 10 tips for getting into our next Accelerator Batch.
• 3 tips for getting into 500 Startups (video)
• What kinds of startups is 500 looking for?
• Your checklist for applying to get into 500 Startups
• The cheat sheet for successful 500 Startups applications
• Does 500 Startups invest in startup founders at the idea stage?
• Does 500 Startups invest in competing companies?
• Should 500Startups make investments in similar startups?
• Does 500 startups accept startups alumni from another accelerator program?
• How does 500 start-ups determine the credibility of the team approaching them for their accelerator program?
• What do startups get out of 500’s accelerator program?
• What are some of 500’s biggest exits?
• What is 500 Startups investment thesis?
• How does 500 Startups structure its investments?
• 500 startup fee vs initial investment, when it happens?
• What is 500 Startups’ business model?
• What do I have to get noticed by Dave Mcclure or 500 Startups
• How do we get in front of Dave McClure/500 Startups if we don’t have any connections within 500 Startups and don’t live in Silicon Valley?
• How do I get invited to a 500 Startups Demo Day?
• How many companies 500 Startups interviews for each batch?
• Will 500 Startups cover travel expenses if I’m accepted into the program?
• Is 500 Startups asking a lot for $100k?
• How 500 Startups helps Bitcoin startups with $100k and Advice
• Dave McClure’s tips for raising money from 500 Startups
• What have been the most successful 500 Startups companies so far?
• What is the reputation of 500 Startups
• What is the success rate of startups that have been funded by 500 Startups?

INTERVIEW

• What is the best way to prepare for a 500 Startups interview?
• Being Interviewed by 500 Startups

MENTORS

• How does the 500 Startups Mentor program work?
• Who is the most helpful 500 startups mentor to approach?
• How did founders of non-US companies selected to 500 Startups get noticed by the mentors?
• What are typical advisor equity arrangements for 500 startup companies?

GENERAL ADVICE AND EXPERIENCE

• 50 things I learned at 500 Startups
• SoundBetter’s 4 Pieces of Advice when considering that 500 Startups Application
• Sink or Swim:What it’s like to being at 500 Startups
• What is it like being in 500 Startups?
• 5 things I wish I knew before 500 Startups
• How to get into the Startup Accelerator, 500 Startups
• Life after 500 Startups. What my company learned from being in an accelerator.
• Top 10 ways 500 Startups opens up doors for Love with Food
• Reflecting on my summer at 500 Startups
• Things I wish I knew when I join 500 Startups
• The story of Farmeron: AngelList, 500 Startups & Unicorns
• 15 things I learned from 500 Startups
• Recapping first week at 500 Startups Accelerator program
• 500 Startups: The good, the bad and the ugly
• Popbasic’s 500 Startups journey
• Sarah Paigi discusses 500 Startups
• The Chronicles of 500 Startups Week 1
• Why and how you should apply to 500 Startups
• Learning curve: 30 days of acceleration.
• Why the bar is higher for Indian companies to enter 500

HOW WE GOT INTO 500 STARTUPS — HUSTLE STORIES

• How 2 College Kids hustled into 500 Startups
• How to Successfully Apply to 500 Startups Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
• The Hustle — a 500 Startups Story
• How we got into 500 Startups Batch 9 and our expected dilemma
• How Gorefi hacked its way into 500 Startups
• Crashing our way into 500 Startups
• Getting into 500 Startups Part 1 Part 2
• Our path into 500 Startups
• The story behind pitching Dave Mcclure and getting into 500 Startups from Croatia
• How we became one of the first Argentine companies into 500 Startups
• How to get into 500 startups, advice from 500 Startups founders
• How we got into 500 startups and lessons learnt

DEMO DAY/PREVIEW DAY

• How much money do startups typically raise on a demo day?
• How Preview day taught me to be human

EVENTS

500 Startups organizes a ton of events every year, which is a great way to meet 500 Startups Partners, founders and mentors.

• Warm Gun
• Weapons of Mass Distribution
• MamaBear
• Commercism
• Inbox Love
• Pre Money
• Rainbow Round
• Geeks on a Plane

OTHER RESOURCES

• What is 500 Startups ?
• What is the 500 Startups Accelerator program?
• 500 Startups — The accelerator
• The 5 values that drive 500 Startups
• Why community is 500’s secret sauce
• Creating #500Strong
• Creating #500Strong Part
• Free legal docs for startup founders and investors — Kiss Docs
• Video Library of previous 500 Startups events and archived talks.
• Youtube Channel
• 500 Startups Podcast interviews with founders, investors, and other influencers in the global startup community.

Hope it helps and Good Luck if you are applying to 500 Startups. If you have written any blog post talking about your 500 Startups experience, advice for the application or about the interview process please let me know in the comments below.

Everything You Need to Know When Applying to 500 Startups Accelerator was originally published in The Startup on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

On Aug 24(2012), I saw a tweet by Paul Singh from Mumbai Airport. His subsequent tweets revealed that he would be in a couple of Indian cities meeting entrepreneurs and meeting him would require a referral. I cold emailed him rather than looking for a referral with an intro about our team, the product and asked if we could meet in Bangalore which is closer to our city, Chennai. I use a small trick when mailing people who get a lot of emails. I check their facebook and twitter profiles for updates and mail almost at the same time they tweet or share ( used Tweetdeck for notification of updates). He replied asking about our product, but then went radio silent. Followed up via email in the next couple of days but there was no response. Later on, his tweets revealed that he was meeting a lot of entrepreneurs in Mumbai and Delhi.

His tweets revealed he reached Bangalore on the night of August 28th.On Aug 29th around 7:50AM ,Paul tweeted a picture from a high rise building. I assumed it had to be a hotel at this time of the day. We narrowed down on the location of the tweet and found only a couple of good hotels nearby. We finally guessed it had to be the Royal Orchid Hotel.

Paul Singh on Twitter

Good morning, Bangalore! pic.twitter.com/enm60fTe

We had to do something impressive and we weren’t about to give up the opportunity to meet him when he was in our neck of the woods!.We decided to make small customized printed books for each of the 500Startups partners, which contained our pitch deck. I went through the Facebook & Twitter profiles of all the 500 partners and did my best to decipher their favorite photo poses,colors, clothing style, etc. We then fed all this info of the partners to Andrew, a friend who drew caricatures. Those became the cover of the book, and we also got the pitch book done by our designer Isaac and got posters printed of each caricature.

We got all these books and posters done by night.We noticed from his tweets, Paul was staying for a max of 48 hours in each city,so we had to rush . The fastest and cheapest way to get to Bangalore is by bus. So we slept on a bus 8 hours overnight to Bangalore . That night , I noticed an Instagram photo posted by Mukund Mohan, CEO of India Microsoft Accelerator with Paul in his office. Fortunately we had a meeting with Mukund the next day. When we met up with him, he confirmed that Paul’s hotel was indeed the Royal Orchid, but that Paul would be leaving the city soon. So we hopped into a cab to the hotel, tweeted out to Paul on the way saying we were hanging around the hotel, and would love to meet him. (Again, no response)

We reached the hotel lobby at 11am in anticipation. We decided to give a call to Paul’s phone (I got his number from his email signature and from Mukund). No answer. So we left a voicemail saying were waiting in the hotel lobby and would love to meet him. Another hour passed. I went over to the reception desk to enquire if Paul had checked out. Before I could ask, lo and behold — Paul Singh comes out of the elevator. I hovered around, waiting for him to check out of the hotel. Then I immediately jumped in his way and introduced myself. I was too excited to meet him! Instead of offering my hand for a handshake, I immediately thrust our pitch deck book into his hands. At first, this seemed like a terrible idea. Paul took one look at the first book, saw a cartoon of himself on it, and immediately freaked out, asking “Who the f**k are you guys and what do you want???” I thought I had blown it. But I kept the conversation going ,explaining how we tracked him down and started to pitch him right there in the lobby. Unfortunately, the conversation got cut short because he had to run to a meeting. Paul asked if we could wait till 2 pm and said he would love to talk to us before he left to the airport.We said yes since we had come all the way just to meet him.

We waited till 3pm, Paul sent us a tweet as he got struck in traffic and probably had to rush to the airport when he got back to the hotel. We were quite sure Paul was traveling alone from his tweets and also when he checked out alone out of the hotel. So we decided to ask Paul if we could pitch him in the cab as there should be space for both of us and got everything ready to pitch on my laptop.Eventually, Paul came back, apologized for being late, and assured he’d give us a call once he was back in the US. I said “Paul, if we don’t freak you out again, can we join you on the cab ride to the airport and pitch you on the way?” He said “yes”. We got into the cab and pitched him on the way to the airport. After listening to us, Paul began pitching 500 Startups to us and how they could help us! We bid adieu, and then 3 weeks later we received an email from Paul with an offer to join the Fall 2012 Accelerator program!

Paul Singh on Twitter

Pitched in a cab on the way to the airport by @kwdinc & @ramakanth_d /cc @davemcclure @christine_tsai @christenobrien pic.twitter.com/svhqjwLS

We’ve had the chance to be part of the Batch 5 500startups Accelerator program, working alongside some of the best entrepreneurs and mentors from around the world.

Biggest takeaway from our adventure of hustling into 500? If you’re persistent, you’ll always find a way to get what you want — as long as you never give up. We’re glad we didn’t. Hustled hard!

Sometimes you have to do whatever it takes to win, to get what you want, to get noticed and what you truly deserve!

Jim Rohn puts it best “When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it”.

If you really want to do something, you will find a way; if you don’t, you will find an excuse.

How we got funded by 500 Startups. was originally published in The Startup on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Once your done building your product ,one of the first things you do is getting some visibility on the web to get early adopters. The best thing you can do before launching is to submit your app to as many startup directories as possible for reviews, mentions or backlinks. The main objective being to provide you with some SEO juice to get ranked better on Google.

I have being scouring the web for a while to compile the most comprehensive list of tech sites, startup blogs, startup directories, startup communities & app review sites.Thought it will be useful for every entrepreneur trying to get exposure and publicity for their startup. So making the list public for everyone to use! Also tried making a list of sites which are focused on different markets like payments, digital currency, gaming etc. This is the first in a series of blog posts, this one covering sites in Asia to get your startup featured.

The Most Comprehensive List of Startup Blogs in Asia

Asia

• http://www.techinasia.com/
• http://e27.co/
• https://www.dealstreetasia.com/
• http://www.digitalnewsasia.com/
• http://sdasia.co/
• https://kr-asia.com/
• http://asiancorrespondent.com/category/technology/

Bahrain

• http://startupbahrain.com/
• http://www.wamda.com/country/bahrain

Bangladesh

• http://sdasia.co/
• http://futurestartup.com/
• http://techshohor.com/
• http://hifipublic.com/

Cambodia

• http://geeksincambodia.com/
• http://www.porpok.com/
• http://tigersmekong.co/

China

• http://technode.com/
• http://tech.sina.com.cn/
• http://tech.qq.com/
• http://techcrunch.cn/
• http://www.chinatechnews.com/
• http://cn.technode.com/
• http://www.chinainternetwatch.com/
• http://www.cnetnews.com.cn/
• http://www.techweb.com.cn/
• http://www.36kr.com/
• http://www.donews.com/
• http://www.iheima.com/

Hong Kong

• http://www.startupshk.com/
• http://jumpstartmag.com/

India

• http://yourstory.com/
• http://www.nextbigwhat.com/

http://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/

• http://www.medianama.com/
• http://techcircle.vccircle.com/
• http://www.vccircle.com/
• http://inc42.com/
• http://trak.in/
• http://www.dealcurry.com/
• http://www.exchange4media.com/
• http://indianbizparty.com/
• http://thetechpanda.com/
• http://thetechportal.in/
• http://www.indianweb2.com/
• http://www.iamwire.com/
• http://www.startupheat.com/
• http://hackerstreet.in/
• http://notcrud.com/
• http://www.buzzom.com/
• http://www.startuptimes.in/
• http://www.indiadigitalreview.com/
• http://lighthouseinsights.in/
• http://www.socialsamosa.com/
• http://www.thestartupjournal.com/
• http://techstory.in/
• http://startups.fm/
• http://startups.in/
• http://pn.ispirt.in/

Indonesia

• http://segitiga.net/
• http://en.dailysocial.net/
• http://id.techinasia.com/
• http://startupbisnis.com/
• http://startuplokal.org/
• http://aitinesia.com/
• http://teknojurnal.com/

Iran

• http://techrasa.com/
• http://techly.co/

Israel

• http://nocamels.com/
• http://www.geektime.com/
• http://www.geektime.co.il/
• http://www.timesofisrael.com/start-up-israel/
• http://www.haaretz.com/business/tech-roundup
• http://www.israel21c.org/
• http://startuptelaviv.co/

Japan

• http://thebridge.jp/en/
• http://japan.cnet.com/
• http://www.japantoday.com/category/technology
• http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/

Korea

• http://besuccess.com/
• http://www.cnet.co.kr/
• http://www.venturesquare.net/
• http://www.bloter.net/
• http://www.techforkorea.com/
• http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/category/section_129.html

Malaysia

• https://amanz.my/
• https://vulcanpost.my/
• http://www.lowyat.net/

Myanmar

• http://tigersmekong.co/
• http://myanmar-startups.com/
• http://myanmar-entrepreneur.com/

Nepal

• http://blogortech.com/

Pakistan

• http://propakistani.pk/
• http://www.techjuice.pk/
• http://pakwired.com/
• http://www.moremag.pk/
• http://netmag.com.pk/
• http://blogogist.com/
• http://www.thepakineur.com/

Philippines

• http://www.pinoytechblog.com/
• http://webgeek.ph/

Singapore

• https://vulcanpost.com/
• https://www.techstorm.tv

Sri Lanka

• http://readme.lk/
• http://techadvisor.lk/
• http://roar.lk/
• http://techwire.lk/
• http://digit.lk/
• http://www.ft.lk/

Taiwan

• https://yowureport.com/
• http://technews.tw/
• http://www.techalook.com.tw/
• http://buzzorange.com/techorange/
• http://punnode.com/
• http://www.bnext.com.tw/

Thailand

• http://thumbsup.in.th/
• http://eggidea.com/

Vietnam

• http://www.action.vn/
• http://www.techz.vn/
• http://echip.com.vn/
• http://beta.gik.vn/

Arab

• http://www.wamda.com/
• https://arabnet.me/
• http://arabcrunch.com/
• https://stepfeed.com
• http://techview.me/
• http://www.arabianbusiness.com/startup/
• http://tfour.me/

If you know of any other startup or tech blogs in any of these countries,please let me know by commenting.