Hello Friends, We have launched www.mohanchoti.com. A Third Generation Recruitment Portal. Mohanchoti is primarily is an effort to remove hiring mistakes by giving an insiders preview of a candidate to prospective employers. and hence remove bad hirings. In the process it is adding value to everyone involved in the process Employee, Employer and Referrer.. For […]

A recent entrepreneur asked me for help to promote his product. Interesting background — IIT Delhi, now a professor there, and has written this book (“ah! not another iitian book” — no, this guy has some mettle!) Above Average is the story of a middle-class Delhi boy with an aptitude for science and math but […]

Saw this on TechCrunch. The companies software allows call centre workers to work from home and has a performance tracking system that routes calls to the best performing workers. I had heard the CEO of GenPact in India saying they were exploring these kind of solutions for India. Maybe there are startups in India focusing […]

Here are some thoughts on the subject to spark off discussion: The SaaS (Software as a Service) model is an interesting development in the enterprise software segment. My predictions are that: We could see investment in SaaS companies in the India-US corridor with a lot of development and support located out of India. I also […]

I saw this in Internet- StudiVZ, a German clone of Facebook was sold for 100 million Euros to Holtzbrick Verlag, a giant German publishing company, reports3 Spiegel Online, a well known German news outlet. The Chinese clone of Facebook was acquired back in October 2006. StudiVZ claims to have a million users. Is it a […]

“Why Companies Should Have Open Business Models” is a recent article in SMR. Just wondering, is it a start-up idea? I mean why SOME start-ups should have a open business model for open innovation and resultant FASTER GROWTH? I am talking about startups because of two trends — rising R&D costs and decreased product revenues […]

I guess for entrepreneurs, this abstract is enough to do catalytic innovation-Pradyot Disruptive Innovation for Social Change Clayton M. Christensen, Heiner Baumann, Rudy Ruggles, Thomas M. Sadtler Harvard Business Review December 2006 Issue Reprint # R0612E Abstract: Countries, organizations, and individuals around the globe spend aggressively to solve social problems, but these efforts often fail […]

This is an interesting news for all and a very encouraging news for start-up owners and prospective start-up owners esp. in India From http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16161310.htm India 2.0: The new garage culture MUMBAI, India – The founders of newly launched Kreeda Entertainment come from New York City, Belgium and Bangalore. Their headquarters in India? A garage. The […]

Of course, this is a favourite topic of mine. Techcrunch has an article which provides a couple of directions for online jobs. Notably I want to see a company come out and eHarmony-ize the job market. Make it so candidates go through a 15- to 30-minute application process that might include various tests related to […]

We have discussed some of these ideas on venturewoods before, but I thought I would get more specific thoughts. We are seeing more and more businesses around the theme to offer a $100 a year service to a million users. Few ideas that have got discussed here include: 1. Online DVD rentals 2. Online photo […]

In continuation with Alok’s post on Investment pitches, i am posting our venture pitch for TracBac, a visual collaboration application. Here’s the presentation: TracBac is a visual collaboration platform for designers and clients to interact over a modern browser. It succeeds in narrowing the gap between designers & clients by providing a rugged and easy […]

In continuation to the post by Alok, I have posted a very initial Venture pitch for MirrorZen, a Natural Language based Search Engine. Here is the presentation: MirrorZen had been self-funded to come to a proof-of-concept stage. And subsequently we were looking at raising some Angel Investment for MirrorZen to be able to continue further. […]