Hi everyone. This is my first post. A quick introduction about myself. I am Vivek and currently located in Chennai. Aspiring to be an entrepreneur in the days/months/Years to come 🙂 This article is an attempt to understand the process of hiring at a startup. Your comments would help me understand what went on. To […]
Services going mobile in Rural India
Offering services to Rural India is expensive. That is because, peasants live in sparse locations and so, distribution costs are very high. That is why, one needs to innovate here. One of such innovation is to offer the service, mobile. I used to wonder about the business model on providing Internet service on cycle rickshaw […]
10x Faster Enterprise PC Backup
Value Proposition 10 times faster PC backups with 90% reduction in bandwidth and storage utilization. Never lose a file. Ever – Timeline based, from the past Restores. Where its useful ? Remote backups – low bandwidth scenarios like – remote-office/off-site backup, traveling user backups Local backup – Savings in time and storage space. Bare-Metal Restore […]
ESOP Successes – Quasar Crorepatis
Quasar has been kind to share some of the success stories on ESOPs – these employees made about 1 crore each when WPP acquired a majority stake in Quasar. Thanks to Quasar for sharing the same. Deven DharamdasaniBusiness DirectorAge 29Joined Oct-2004 Gopikaa DavarAssociate DirectorAge 26Joined Jun-2002 Manish SinhaVP – ProjectsAge 35Joined Dec-2005 Piyush RathiBusiness DirectorAge […]
Innovations waiting in selling Insurance policies for Rural India!
My heart beats for Rural India. Venturewoods will have many posts from me in this regard.Ă‚Â Till date most of the companies in India are always focused on urban market or at least they sell their products/services with the same models that of predominantly urban-market oriented. However, of the late, there is a significant […]
Cash card transactions are much higher in India. Why?
This is my first post here. First of all, thanks for Alok for creating such a nice platform. There are two types of e-commerce transactions on Internet. First, the consumer who makes the transaction on his behalf or family or for a friend and secondly an agent (ICT kiosks, Internet Cafes, etc) who completes the […]
Mobile Payments | RBI Guidelines
Today, RBI took another incremental step in defining Mobile Payments in India. The bank has published draft guidelines for Mobile Payments – “Mobile Payments in India – Operative Guidelines for Banks” . It’s encouraging that steps are taken in recognizing the industry and putting standards around it. However; it seems like a cautious approach. My […]
Social Startup CEO opportunity – Delhi
Rahul has taken a project that I had done as a fellow at Stanford and scaled it. He has just got a grant from Ford Foundation for $250,000 and is looking for a CEO as described here. If you know anyone who may fit the bill please ask them to contact Rahul directly. At some […]
Tech company social network- vator.tv
Vator.tv is a social network for technology startup companies which gives entrepreneurs a platform to connect with Investors, Acquirers and Media. Vator.tv gives Investors useful tools to keep track of companies and industries that interest them, and provides a revolutionary interaction platform to discover the best investment opportunities in technology. http://vator.tv/
TiE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge – Final Nominations
Hi All, It’s my pleasure to introduce this community to final eight entries of TiE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 Name Category 11rupees.com Internet – Financial Services Good Morning Research KPO – Financial Services Druvaa Software Software Ginni Systems Limited Software iKen Solutions Pvt Ltd Software Infogile Technologies Mobile Rx Healthcaremagic Pvt. Ltd Internet – HealthCare […]
OWASP AppSec India Conference 2008
As you might be aware, OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) is a globally recognized leading body for Web Application Security standards, Frameworks, Tools and Guides, with its mission of “finding and fighting the cause of insecure software.” The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide free and open community focused on […]
Twitter and the Rickshawalla
A few days ago I decided to try out twitter and came across an interesting post by Josh Kopelman titled Some new thoughts on the Atomization of Conversation. Here is a part of the post On Sunday morning, our seven-year old daughter awoke with sharp pain in the lower right-hand corner of her stomach. Fearing […]