A school playground in Manjeri needed new volleyball nets last year. Nobody wrote a press release about it. A small team from a startup working out of Silicon Jeri simply covered the cost and moved on. This kind of thing is easy to miss. It is small, it is quiet, and...
A software engineer who just moved to Manjeri for a job at a startup based at Silicon Jeri has one urgent problem that has nothing to do with code. Where does the next meal come from. Six months ago, that question sent most new arrivals to the same two or three hotels...
A flight from Dubai to Kozhikode takes about four hours. For a small group of founders, that short hop ended a much longer detour, one that ran through Gulf offices and Bangalore coworking floors, before it landed back home in Manjeri. These are not employees who came...
A dead laptop charger does not care how good your startup’s pitch deck is. It just needs a replacement, and it needs it today. For most founders working out of Silicon Jeri in Manjeri, that replacement does not come from a courier or an online order. It comes...
A young engineer moves to Manjeri for a role at a startup based out of Silicon Jeri. He does not want a full apartment. He does not want a shared room with strangers off a random listing either. He wants a bed, a desk, fast internet, and food he does not have to cook....
Nobody is paying these founders to talk. That is the whole point. A handful of founders working out of Silicon Jeri in Manjeri have started their own podcasts, newsletters, and regular posts about what it actually feels like to build a company from a small Kerala...
