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  1. How Indian Startups can help you to plan your next trip?

    Desistartups (Aug 6 2008) Explore Article

    Ok, you realize that you have a long weekend coming up. Why not plan for a getaway? If you are already planning for one, then I believe you usually start by asking your friend to suggest some place and then make repeated searches, scroll through thousands of webpages in order to make your trip plan [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Yatra   Raxit Sheth   Thomas Cook

  2. Build/Edit your mobile site from your mobile!

    Desistartups (Jul 30 2008) Mobile Explore Article

    I met Prashanth of Akmin during the Feb edition of MoMo Chennai. Prashanth’s team talked about their web based product called mobiSiteGalore, that allows you to create mobile websites with minimal effort. DIY, website building solutions are always on demand especially in the US and UK, where all the business start with a website even [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Raxit Sheth   Nokia

  3. Couple of startups which deserves attention

    Desistartups (Jul 11 2008) Explore Article

    This post is about two startups both having good market opportunities; But needs improvement in certain aspects. Local search engine - Kinda community based Samfra has been around for quite sometime. They have partnership with Cricbuzz, Max Yellow Pages, and a number of others, so there is no doubt about their dataset. They have 4 search categories - Local [...] (Read Full Article)

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  4. Incubation and Technopark

    Desistartups (Jul 10 2008) Explore Article

    (I was planning to write this post for quite a while now. Was surprised to see Paras in action much quicker than me.) In India, we have more than 50 incubators. The incubation wing of Technopark won the Best Technology Incubator Award last year. We contacted Mr. Radha Krishnan, CEO of Technopark and had an email discussion [...] (Read Full Article)

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  5. LifeBlob - Alpha? You should be kidding!

    Desistartups (Jul 5 2008) Explore Article

    Came across two sites that start with “Life” in two popular blogs. Out of curiosity, I tried signing up. Both of them happily asked me for an invite key. Ok, I told myself better luck next time and was casually checking out some other blogs. Hurray, found a invite key in one of the search [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   DeskAway

  6. Hacker is back!

    Desistartups (Jul 4 2008) Explore Article

    Remember, our Hacker of the month series? Paras is back, this time with a strong reply to Mike. He showed me a small webapp sometime back, which he has apparently managed to roll out as a full working website. It is named MyJugaad.  The idea is very simple. You create what is called as Web slideshows, [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Raxit Sheth   Google

  7. Purdafash - Removes Purda and exposes issues!

    Desistartups (Jul 3 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    Purdafash is an internet startup that I came across quite recently. (Via another blog!). You can describe it as Citizen Journalism, Social News site, User Contributed Videos site or in any other terminology that has managed to secure millions in funding in the US/UK, may be even in India! But we prefer to describe it as [...] (Read Full Article)

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  8. DesiWiki and SME Toolkit

    Desistartups (Jul 3 2008) Explore Article

    When we started DesiWiki during May 08, we started with a mission. Mission to gather as much information as possible that would benefit Indian startups, since not many were available. When we heard about SME Toolkit a month back, we thought, they are probably the best place to start. But during the course of the conversation [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Raxit Sheth   ICICI Bank   SME Toolkit

  9. Announcing Jobs section powered by Jobyantra

    Desistartups (Jun 29 2008) Explore Article

    We personally believe that a blog about Indian startups should not be just a place where you see just posts every now and then. Instead, the authors should be one of the early-adopters themselves. The reason we moved from twitter to kwippy is precisely for the same reason. (A joke. When I mentioned desiwiki to [...] (Read Full Article)

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  10. The Indian T-shirt Market

    Desistartups (Jun 26 2008) Explore Article

    If you read Indian startups related blogs regularly (Not many to be frank!), then you should know the answer for this question. The top 3 startups for buying customized t-shirts online are …… (Ok the answer not in any particular order - pringoo, myntra, dilsebol) I recently came across two more startups trying to see if there [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Raxit Sheth

  11. Interesting Innovation from a Bangalore based startup

    Desistartups (Jun 9 2008) Explore Article

    One of the reason why I like django when compared to a number of frameworks is its admin interface. It basically gives common functionalities like create/edit/update/delete/list/search for nearly free. However, we still need to code business logic. How about a framework that doesn’t require you to code at all? Hey the same framework can provide some [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Raxit Sheth   SalesForce

  12. Lets review one of our sponsor - DeskAway

    Desistartups (Jun 2 2008) Explore Article

    DeskAway joined our esteem group of sponsors recently. I came across DeskAway in a famous startup event last year. But I didn’t explore them enough, since the main target market for them is non-IT, basically people who want a simple project management software that solves their requirement. Without any more stories lets go straight to the review. Easy [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zoho   DeskAway

  13. Startups for Indian Startups?

    Desistartups (Jun 1 2008) Explore Article

    Someone told me that if I have “Startups” repeating more than once, I will get good ranking in Google! Ok, I am just kidding. In this post, let us cover some of the startups that would benefit other Indian Startups! Sounds interesting? Then read on. You have a startup idea and looking for interns to help you [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IIT Bombay   Dimdim   Waqar Azmi

  14. Open source and APIs?

    Desistartups (Jun 1 2008) Explore Article

    We are back after a short downtime, thanks to ET for writing about us. In this post, let us see how startups could benefit from open source and api? (Photo courtesy: Flickr) Cost Savings Known point. You save cost. Continuous Learning You learn a lot, when you open source your code and get the feedback/support from the community. Recently, I was [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Burrp

  15. Indian Cloning Market

    Desistartups (May 26 2008) Explore Article

    While talking to a friend, founder of a London based startup, we were casually discussing about the startup scenario in India and in the UK. I got some interesting updates from him. A number of UK based startups are actually outsourced and gets developed from places like Bangalore! The next one is more interesting. We seem to [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Burrp   Youtube   Myntra

  16. Monkiri - Print Screen for the Web

    Desistartups (May 26 2008) Explore Article

    Sachin Kamble, CTO of Firben, contacted us to take a look at Monkiri (their new product) and come up with our thoughts. I thought of registering a blog in their site and chose the address as desistartups.monkiri.com. I was shocked to see the message, “Already registered.”. What, another culprit to copy this name? (Yes, [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Burrp

  17. Why we like Burrp TV?

    Desistartups (May 19 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    As usual we are not the first to talk about Burrp TV , how cool it is blah blah blah. But we are trying to be different from other blogs even this time. Developed with common sense Take a look at the website of any TV channel. You will realize how shitty their listings page are. [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Burrp

  18. What happened to Chittr?

    Desistartups (May 18 2008) Explore Article

    I was thinking of a good post to break my week’s silence. But in the end, happened to notice this? What happened to chittr? The url takes me to some comics site. I hope it is simply a matter of DNS hijacking and not the end of twitter, sorry chittr. Can someone ping the founders and let them know this? Interestingly, I also [...] (Read Full Article)

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  19. IndyaRocks - Rocks the Indian Spamming market

    Desistartups (May 12 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    I resisted atleast 100 times before posting this. How many of the readers have received an email like this? ——————————— Subject: Send me an SMS Hi, Here is the link to send free SMS to any mobile in India. I use it too http://www.indyarocks.com/register_step1.php?invitor===&emailencryp=cHJhYmh1LnN1YnJhbWFuaWFuQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ== - Please note: This message was sent to you by a user at Indyarocks.com. [...] (Read Full Article)

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  20. Interesting startups

    Desistartups (May 6 2008) Explore Article

    Lets turn our attention to couple of startups not much spoken about, but are with a truly interesting business model. Librarywala.com -  Books rental startup. (Not DVD). Features: Add books to your queue. Sign up for a package and get the books delivered to your house (Bangalore/Mumbai only) for free. Price starts at Rs. 139/- per month for [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Reliance Industries Limited   Metro

  21. Hacker of the month series

    Desistartups (May 3 2008) Explore Article

    Starting with this post, every month we will profile about an Indian Hacker. Why hackers suddenly instead of startups? Because, we believe that hiring a right hacker for your startup is also an important factor for success. Also, a number of hackers are entrepreneurs themselves and few among them are not known outside of the [...] (Read Full Article)

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  22. Information that are necessary for a startup

    Desistartups (May 1 2008) Explore Article

    What are the documents required for registering your company? What are the different taxes to be paid and when? How much stock options to offer to the new hire or a new CEO of your startup? What is the valuation for your startup? Answer to all such questions are so hidden that even the best search engine cannot get [...] (Read Full Article)

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  23. An Indian Startup in p2p space - metaaso

    Desistartups (Apr 30 2008) Explore Article

    What happens when 5 founders from premier institutions like IIT, Stanford, MIT join hands to build a product? That too in India? Well, I am talking about metaaso, a delhi based startup (Not sure if startup is the right word to use!), which is silently rocking the world with their p2p based suite of products [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Stanford University

  24. Getting lyte with LyteRAD

    Desistartups (Apr 29 2008) Explore Article

    Lets get into the startups review business again. This time we will talk about an interesting Bangalore based startup/Micro ISV, run by Girish and Maheedhar, called LyteCube. Maheedhar is a known Java Hacker and was lastly with the HADB (High Availability DB) development team at Sun. Hence it is no wonder that they have a [...] (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Zoho   LyteCube   Infact

  25. India *do need* everyone!

    Desistartups (Apr 16 2008) Explore Article

    Happened to see this post from The Startup Guy. Some of my thoughts on this. (Of course not to hurt anyone) To begin with, lets categorize the different kinds of techies in India. People who have been working in Indian services/product companies all along. People who moved abroad (so called onsite) through an Indian company. People who returned back [...] (Read Full Article)

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