Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s ex-uberblogger, has an interesting post up about Amazon’s new releases, and how that means that they are the new google: Back when I worked at Microsoft I was always looking at Google and asking myself “what if they shipped this” or “what if they shipped that?” Well, I should have been worrying […]
Blackberry Pearl
I used to regularly read Walter Mossberg’s colum on Personal Technology in the Wall Street Journal and I like Bambi’s commentary on MarketWatch. Pearl being sexy is probably not much use to me sitting here in India but Bambi’s report on Pearl made we wonder whether there any sites in India with really good columnists. […]
How Insane is your Process
This will be my last post for a while as I am off on an internet free vacation till Sep 25. Apologies for a rather long post. One of my pet themes is reducing friction in processes and a large part of PayPal’s success was because we were able to design very low friction processes. […]
Google v/s Cha Cha
A new and interesting twist which could possibly work in India as well. Read this. Do you think Cha Cha has a chance against Google. Would the Cha Cha model work in India ? Big Opportunity ?
BoA on Gigaom
Gigaom has recently written about some of the ongoing efforts at Band of Angels, India. Most of the regular stuff regarding our desire and passion to create large businesses out of India, the progress so far, and whats in the pipeline. We have also been getting regular feedback from the entrepreneurial community, including some pretty […]
SIM cards as CD
If mobiles are becoming pocket computers can SIM cards become like game CD’s, learning CD’s etc. If I want to learn English could I buy a learn english SIM card put it in my mobile phone. Would I have to have a high end mobile phone ? For SIM cards they have to conform to […]
Evalueserve India VC report
Evalueserve has come out with a report on Indian early stage VCs. It points out that the VC activity in India is increasing and soon, there will be as many as 44 early stage VC firms operating in India, with around $4.4b to invest! While my own estimates are on a lower side, whats undeniable […]
Web 2.0 startup sold on ebay
This is via Rishab from silklist. A web2.0 startup Kiko which was into AJAX based online calendering was sold on ebay for just over $250K. I guess they matched up with Google at least in the style of exit if nothing else! Here’s the auction link.
Redherring 100 List – Indian companies
Redherring has announced the final 100 for this year — there are 23 Indian companies 24/7 Customer, 24×7 Learning, ACL Wireless, Advanced Radio Engineering, Avestha Gen, ConvergeLabs, Coruscant, Drishtee, Esqube Communications, Evalueserve, Indiaideas, Naukri, Innoviti, makemytrip, mauj telecom, mobile2win, NeoAccel, n-logue communications, Novatium Solutions, Ocimum Biosolutions, People Interactive, SoftJin, Toonz Animation Remember, you saw it […]
Starting points for Indian languages internet
Fair bit of interest developing around local language content on the internet. Have been wondering what opportunities will present themselves over next few years as the opportunity unfolds. Some pieces of the puzzle: 1. Authoring tools 2. Standard rendering technology (still see too many floating around) 3. Content creation – Since english remains the main […]
Room to Read
It may be worth creating a category for social entrepreneurship which is distinct from the others. But that aside here is a good story in that category. Room to Read is an organization started by a Microsoft executive who left Microsoft in 2000 to enter the non-profit world and applied the principals of big business […]
Why did the Chicken Cross the Road
It really depends on who you ask….. PAT BUCHANAN: To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American. DR SEUSS: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I’ve not been told. GRANDPA: In my day we didn’t ask why […]