Bollam Rishithej — Writing https://bollamrishithej.com/blog Notes on deep technology, company building and corporate governance. en Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Taking a wearable robot from Hangzhou to the United States https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/taking-transitx-to-the-united-states https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/taking-transitx-to-the-united-states Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT At the Canton Fair I met the team behind TransitX, a Hangzhou maker of walking-assist exoskeletons. We are now working together on launching their product in the United States. Notes on what that work involves. Canton Fair, day two: the parts become machines https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/canton-fair-day-two https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/canton-fair-day-two Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT Day two at the 140th Canton Fair. A passenger air vehicle, a rehabilitation exoskeleton, and planning a United States launch with TransitX. Canton Fair, day one: the robots are already components https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/canton-fair-day-one https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/canton-fair-day-one Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT First day at the 140th Canton Fair in Guangzhou. A humanoid robot maker selling its joints as parts, a robot small enough to hold, and a coffee that printed my face. Why I am going to Guangzhou https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/why-i-am-going-to-guangzhou https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/why-i-am-going-to-guangzhou Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:00:00 GMT From 15 October I will be at the Canton Fair. Not to buy anything in particular — to close the gap between what we can design in India and what we actually know how to have made. Some of India's best technology is already here. It's sitting in a university lab https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/the-technology-is-already-here https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/the-technology-is-already-here Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMT A visit to the MEMS, Microfluidics and Nanoelectronics Lab at BITS Pilani Hyderabad, and why VidyuthLabs would rather commercialise research that already exists than reinvent it. The one-office rule, and what it does to a founder's board map https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/one-office-rule https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/one-office-rule Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT Section 203 of the Companies Act lets a person hold exactly one whole-time key managerial office. That single constraint shapes how a multi-company founder is allowed to sign. Start with one school https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/start-with-one-school https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/start-with-one-school Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT How we enter an unorganised sector — find one partner willing to run it for real, build for their actual constraints, and only then call it a product. In education that partner is Deccan Springs Global School. A startup ecosystem is not a funding problem https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/a-startup-ecosystem-is-not-a-funding-problem https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/a-startup-ecosystem-is-not-a-funding-problem Mon, 11 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT Every part India needs already exists — the research, the capital, the operators, the advisors, and an endless supply of unsolved problems. What is missing is that none of them are connected to each other. We don't have competitors https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/we-do-not-have-competitors https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/we-do-not-have-competitors Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:00:00 GMT The competitive frame is the default in Indian startup culture and I think it is largely a mistake. In an unorganised market the constraint is never the other company. It is that the sector does not work yet. Fifty thousand people https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/fifty-thousand-people https://bollamrishithej.com/blog/fifty-thousand-people Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:00:00 GMT The number I care about is not valuation or revenue. It is how many families have a salary because something we built exists. The target is fifty thousand in ten years.