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Markets: Bollywood, Gaming, Maps/Local, Mobile, Outsourcing, Social Networking, Telecom, Travel, Video
Financing: Acquisition, Funding

  1. A very Happy Diwali

    Indian startups (Oct 27 2008) Explore Article

    Wish all of you a very, very Happy Diwali. To those who hail from Gujjuland, wish you a happy and prosperous new year as well. Been caught with shit @ work — regular blogging should resume soon. Brand reputation Management for Indian companies Startup jobs galore and looking for a SEO expert Copyright © Pranav Dharma -StartupDunia, 2006-2008 [...] (Read Full Article)

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  2. What makes entrepreneur entrepreneurial ?

    Indian startups (Oct 20 2008) Explore Article

    I came across this highly interesting paper which tries to uncover what exactly it is that makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurial ? Can ‘entrepreneurial thinking’ be taught or successfully applied across all domains ? As part of the research, the author identifies a set of principles, which he calls ‘Effectual reasoning’, that establish the existence of a form [...] (Read Full Article)

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  3. Sipacon 2008 - Free tickets and discount codes

    Indian startups (Oct 17 2008) Explore Article

    The Silicon Valley Indian Professionals Association (SIPA) is organizing their annual event, SIPACON 2008, on November 8th at the HP Auditorium in Palo Alto. The theme of this year’s event is “Social Media & the Enterprise“. Speakers include: Ravi Belani (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Justin (Founders Fund), Ross Mayfield (President and co-founder at Socialtext), Andras Boross (CTO, Mobile [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Ross Mayfield   McKinsey   Draper Fisher Jurvetson

  4. Metrics for Online Gaming sites in India

    Indian startups (Oct 15 2008) Gaming Explore Article

    Here’re some metrics for online gaming sites in India: Reach: 27.4% Total Unique Visitors: 8,295,000 Average minutes per visitor: 45.4 Average visits per visitor: 4.3 India ranks lowest in terms of popularity of online gaming websites in the APAC region. Additionally the ‘average visits per visitor’ metric also seems to indicate that number of “repeat visitors” is incredibly low as [...] (Read Full Article)

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  5. NearHop finds you the best possible travel plan

    Indian startups (Oct 13 2008) Explore Article

    NearHop is a Hyderabad based startup, which hopes to provide you the best possible itinerary. Once you enter your trip details, NearHop will discover all possible routes to your destination, which includes travel via air, train and bus. So, for instance, if I am searching for a trip from Ahmedabad to Bangalore, the NearHop engine [...] (Read Full Article)

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  6. Excellent Twitter guide by Amit @ DI

    Indian startups (Oct 13 2008) Explore Article

    Amit @ DI has an excellent Twitter guide for some very common Twitter tasks. Seriously recommend adding it to your bookmarks. Brand reputation Management for Indian companies Copyright © Pranav Dharma -StartupDunia, 2006-2008 (Read Full Article)

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  7. Soft economy and the Web 2.0 business model

    Indian startups (Oct 13 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    For the past 4-5 years, Web 2.0 has evangelized the ad supported business model, which seems to have become the norm for majority of today’s startups. The mantra for startups has been - “Get the users and the advertising dollars will follow”.  Instead of developing a solid revenue model and building a sustainable business around [...] (Read Full Article)

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  8. Startup jobs galore and looking for a SEO expert

    Indian startups (Oct 12 2008) Explore Article

    Soft economy ? No worries - startup jobs galore on our job board. Check out some of the openings: * Flash programmer at Delhi-NCR * Software Engineer (PHP), MySQL DBA, Senior S/W Enginner (Java) and other openings at Burrp ! * Rockstar tech lead at InvestmentYogi * PHP coder at ThinkMantra * Web designer at FirstPhera I’m also looking for a SEO [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Burrp

  9. Locomi nails the local search for India

    Indian startups (Oct 12 2008) Maps/Local , Mobile , Social Networking Explore Article

    There are some services which give really give you an ‘aha’ feeling when you try them out. Locomi is one such startup. Locomi has developed a Facebook application, which leverages your social graph on Facebook and marries it with location based search for major Indian cities. Once you add their Facebook app, you can set your [...] (Read Full Article)

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  10. My startup has been nominated to Tata Nen hottest startups

    Indian startups (Oct 10 2008) Explore Article

    As the TATA NEN hottest startups event forges ahead, lately, I’ve seen a lot of startups flashing the badge that they’ve nominated for the event. Some have even issued grand press releases announcing the nomination. My response is “Ok, you’ve been nominated. So what’s the big deal ?”. So have 399 other startups. Nomination, by itself, carries [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Tata NEN

  11. New Feature Update: LifeBlob and InkFruit

    Indian startups (Oct 8 2008) Explore Article

    LifeBlob has released some interesting new features, alongwith a Facebook app. New features include SmugMug & YouTube integration, post by email, zoom effects have been launched, and they’re currently working towards a major revamp for the service. Gotta hand it the LifeBlob guys — they’re innovating at a break neck speed. Inkfruit has also recently gotten some [...] (Read Full Article)

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  12. SnappyFingers - a Question and Answers search engine

    Indian startups (Oct 8 2008) Explore Article

    SnappyFingers is a new startup out of Bangalore and calls itself a search engine for Question and Answers. Their crawler crawls and indexes Question and Answers and FAQ’s from across the Internet and provides a convenient, single point of search from their website. The site is currently in beta and as per Chirayu, the founder, they [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   SnappyFingers

  13. Brand reputation Management for Indian companies

    Indian startups (Oct 8 2008) Explore Article

    Now that you’ve fired your brand reputation management agency, you may wonder, what’s next ? Brand reputation management, in my opinion, is closely coupled with customer satisfaction. To me, a negative review translates to an unsatisfied customer. Keep your customers happy and brand reputation will automatically follow. For now, lets leave aside the possibility that some [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Google Blog

  14. Indic language support, an addendum

    Indian startups (Oct 6 2008) Explore Article

    Fresh off my post on Indic language support, just came across two interesting stores related to content in Indian regional languages: 1) In an interview with Televisionpoint, Rahul Roy Chowdary, product manager for Google India, says: “Growth is accelerating in these two segments (news & entertainment) and has seen a faster growth compared to other segments. The [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   TelevisionPoint

  15. Guitarati launches online Antakshari like game

    Indian startups (Oct 6 2008) Gaming , Social Networking Explore Article

    Guitarati has launched an online, Antakshari based game. You can invite friends from Gmail, YahooMail, Hotmail or you can play the game with the site bot itself. Once you select the language of your choice (used to match players), here’s how the game works: 1. On your turn, a letter is assigned to you. You find [...] (Read Full Article)

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  16. 5 Hacks for Startup Hiring in India

    Indian startups (Oct 6 2008) Explore Article

    The following post has been syndicated from Mukul Kumars blog. Mukul is VP of Engineering @ Komli and often writes some great technical posts. Here are some thoughts on hiring for a Startup in India. My experience with hiring in India for the last fifteen years, in one word, has been – “Awesome” ! In Pune [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Komli   Oracle

  17. Startup Jobs that might interest you

    Indian startups (Oct 4 2008) Explore Article

    Some startup jobs that might interest you: Programmer at Phonethics Mobile media @ Mumbai Java / J2EE Developer at GreenMango @ Hyderabad Flash Programmer @ Delhi UI Guru for seed funded startup - MoneyVidya @ Mumbai Check out other startup jobs on the job board Copyright © Pranav Dharma -StartupDunia, 2006-2008 (Read Full Article)

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  18. Symbiosis Institute B-plan competition “Endeavour”

    Indian startups (Oct 3 2008) Explore Article

    Pune based Symbiosis Institute of Business Management is organizing their B-plan competiton (”Pitch Perfect”) as part of their entrepreneurship event, “Endeavor”. Agenda of the event is: Registration opens and Invite Business Pitch Presentations:   10th September - 22nd October 2008 Announcement of Shortlist -12 Business Pitch Presentations: 7th November 2008 480 seconds presentations by the selected teams at SIBM Campus: [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   NEA-IndoUS Ventures

  19. Indian startups and Indic language support

    Indian startups (Oct 3 2008) Explore Article

    While browsing an Indian website the other day, a thought occurred to me - should Indian startups consider providing Indic language support ? Considering the fact that now people from tier II & tier III cities are getting online, should this aspect be taken seriously by Indian startups ? In my quest for answers, I figured [...] (Read Full Article)

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  20. BatchBuzz is…..confusing

    Indian startups (Oct 3 2008) Explore Article

    I’ve been trying out BatchBuzz for the last 20 odd minutes but still cant figure what it’s actually supposed to be. To quote the founder’s pitch: BatchBuzz is an online magazine where you are the reader, writer and editor of the content.  The site offers unbiased unedited no-spin content, brought to you by our maverick member reporters willing [...] (Read Full Article)

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  21. BSNL offers free dialup Internet service

    Indian startups (Sep 28 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    It’s common knowledge that Internet penetration in India is miserable. In order to make Internet more common place, BSNL has launched a scheme of free dialup Internet service for two months. All you need is a valid BSNL telephone connection and you can use it to access the free dialup Internet service. No registration is needed [...] (Read Full Article)

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  22. BharatMatrimony issues C&D to TamilMatrimony.co.in

    Indian startups (Sep 28 2008) Explore Article

    Consim Info Pvt. Ltd, which owns BharatMatrimony.com and other umbrella sites like MarathiMatrimony, TamilMatrimony, GujratiMatrimony etc, has issued a cease and desist to Anand Sanwal, who owns and operates the domain TamilMatrimony.co.in. In a recently filed claim with NIXI, the National Internet Exchange of India (www.nixi.co.in), Consim Info Private Limited has filed a claim against Anand, [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   National Internet Exchange of India

  23. Did Google AdSense just screw you up ?

    Indian startups (Sep 26 2008) Explore Article

    Google Adsense seems to have goofed up & messed up the exchange rate for Indian publishers. Seems that instead of reporting an exchange rate of 1$ Rs. 46.55, the payout reports are listing an exchange rate of 1$ 1 Rs. A glitch no doubt - but significant enough to screw up your minds via [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google

  24. The Big Picture features India

    Indian startups (Sep 24 2008) Explore Article

    The Big Picture from the Boston Globe has become one of my daily must-visit sites.  Recently, they featured a series on India. Check it out here. Copyright © Pranav Dharma -StartupDunia, 2006-2008 (Read Full Article)

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  25. Startup jobs added to the site

    Indian startups (Sep 23 2008) Explore Article

    After suggestions from several folks, I finally got a chance to add a startup jobs section to the site. You can access it from the main navigation from any page or you can access it from www.startupdunia.com/jobs . No registration, no hassles and complete FREE !! Thanks to the folks behind Jobberbase for such a great [...] (Read Full Article)

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