There have been quite a few content aggregation sites that have cropped up in the recent past – both in India and US. ixigo.com, Yahoo Farechase, zoomtra for travel, Yahoo Jobsearch, bixee etc for jobs, spoteazy for electronics and there are many others in US in this space. My question is: What are the legality […]
Kittu Kolluri Podcast
NEA’s Managing Partner Kittu Kolluri is an engineer turned entrepreneur turned investor. I met with Kittu at NEA’s Sand Hill Road Office in Menlo Park to find out how he made this transistion from being an engineer to entrepreneur to an investor.
Vertical social networks
Great post and comments on prospects of vertical social networks. These are social networks that revolve around a specific interest groups, such as bikers, running enthusiasts, etc. The article argues that this is the direction in which social networks will evolve, and naturally, users will be part of multiple social networks. This leads to a […]
Seedcamp – Europe
Interesting model on lines of YCombinator in Europe. The management resource base of the initiative is perhaps the single biggest success factor. Something to think about for people contemplating similar models in India.
The Druvaa Story
We started with a Data Replication and Disaster Recovery product for Asia Pacific SME market. Had a good start, built a solid team … and then got beaten down by Angels/VCs & some market “veterans”. Thanks to a lot of guys (specially some on venturewoods) who advised, We decided to go ahead and pooled in […]
Online community
This seems to be buzzword in today’s web 2.0 scenario. We could see the mushrooming of social networking sites that are positioned for college goers, women, old age people, and may be to gay and lesbian (I’m not sure on this). These sites provide tremendous opportunity for people to find new friends, enjoy time with […]
Update: IT Services & BPO Connect; July 12, Bangalore
Highly successful entrepreneurs and angel investors including N. S. Raghavan of Nadathur Holdings (and co-founder of Infosys), Dr. Prakash Mutalik of RelQ (which was acquired recently by EDS), Rajiv Mody of Sasken (a successful publicly-listed company) and K. Ganesh of TutorVista (who earlier co-founded BPO firm CustomerAsset and angel invested in KPO firm Marketics) share […]
How to pitch to a VC
Sequoia Capital makes visible what they look for, both in a company and in a business plan. It is rare to find an A-list VC being this open – this is a great resource, especially for first-time entrepreneurs.
BW – 30 Greatest Entrepreneurs
Businessweek has published its list of 30 all time great entrepreneurs. Despite the obvious bias of 90% of the people being from America, it does force one to think of the most impactful innovations and businesses over last 300 years. Its interesting that the first entry is an admiral, circa 1400 AD. Its also interesting […]
Indian VCs expand their scope
Businessweek on how the emergence of entrepreneurs targeting the BOP (as well as the relentless hunt for deal flow) is causing VCs in India to broaden the scope of their investments. The fishermen from the Indian village of Chidambaram live a hard life. They sleep most of the day, then spend the night out on […]
Apple I-Phone- Hype or Hit?
If you look into newspapers and websites of any journal from United States you won’t miss the word I-phone. Believe me, there are more than 100 articles that was written by technology experts, Apple lovers and others in this business. Would it become a hit? Million dollar question. But it’s easy to answer. It’s going […]
Incredible Gizmoz
Check this out guys! I found it great – perfect for friday afternoon, and perhaps for my secondlife avatar. If you are still thinking why I am doting my animation, all I had to do was to upload a picture of mine and this got done automatically Express Yourself with Gizmoz Video Clips