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Inkfruit.com an Indian Community Centered T-shirt Shoppe has announced a new T-shirt Exchange Scheme. They will be giving new tees at half price for old tees.
These old tees will be donated to NGO’s.
Thus people can not only avail a large discount but also do their bit for the needy and poor in Mumbai, India.
Check out their blog post: http://blog.inkfruit.com/2008/08/t-shirt-exchange.html#links
I heard venture valuations are already in the bottom. The same for VC valuations also. Let us wait and watch and keep floating!
Writing to let you know of the Startup Lunch, being held for the first time in Hyderabad (http://startuplunch.proto.in/index.php?title=Main_Page#Hyderabad).
It is a “speed dating†event for startups and people interested in joining them.
The event is scheduled for the 23rd of August, at Intellecap’s Hyderabad office:
Intellecap
3-6-307/2, Hyderguda Main Road,
Hyderabad- 500029
Telefax: +91-40-23222461
A group of IIT-Delhi students and alumni have launched Foodiebay.com, an online restaurant directory that seeks to help users find food options in and around Delhi. The site currently offers menus, reviews, ratings and contact details of over 1200 eating joints in Delhi and NCR (Gurgaon and Noida).
Samfra.com – an Indian search engine has partnered with cricbuzz.com to offer score of live cricket matches right within its search results.
Samfra also launched videos search in India which aggregates videos from a variety of sources like YouTube, MetaCafe, Dekhona etc. Users can search and watch videos right within Samfra. They can rate the videos, write comments and even share the videos with their friends.
Samfra is the product of Matcoms Technologies Pvt Ltd – a Bangalore based startup.