Based on my research and conversations with entrepreneurs, it seems that hiring is one of the most difficult jobs for a startup. Be it Silicon Valley or be it Bangalore, finding the right employee can be one of the most challenging and often, one of the most time consuming jobs. The early employees are really […]
Avnish Bajaj, co-founder and MD, Matrix partners India, has an interesting interview in Outlook Business. A few interesting excerpts from the interview:
Q: What did the successful guys (Internet companies) get right?
A: Well to begin with, focus. If you just go through the players and see who has done extremely well versus those who have […]
Here’s a list of some of the most promising open source social networking platforms for those of you who might be interested.
1) BuddyPress
BuddyPress was started by Andy Peatling as a series of plugins for WordPress MU that will turn it into a fully functional social network. It was acquired by AutoMattic, founders of WordPress, and […]
Google’s “Do No Evil” mantra would need no introduction to most of you. For those of you, who need to know more about their mantra and its origins, there are hundreds of online articles that explain the same.
While Google has enjoyed immense PR and popularity riding on the back of this mantra, some of its […]
Depending on who your target audience is, it is so very essential that you do beta testing within a subset of that targeted audience. If your web app is designed for the general audience (read: outside the realm of the early adopter crowd), I’d say you better get your friends-family (assuming they fall outside the […]
Venture capital funding in India for the first quarter dropped by 27% as compared to the 4th quarter. Overall, $99 million was invested across 16 deals while the median investment size was $4.1 million. As compared to this, $135 million was invested in the fourth quarter across 17 deals.
As per the report, VC activity is […]
If you follow the Indian startup scene closely, chances are that you would have already heard about Proto. For the uninitiated, Proto is an event that brings together entrepreneurs, startup enthusiasts, VC’s, technologists, media professionals and students at a common platform, where they can interact, network and startups get a chance to showcase their […]
If you closely follow technology news, TechMeme has gotta be in your daily reading list. Indimeme is a similar effort at developing a meme tracker for Indian blogosphere. The ‘hot’ stories from Indian blogosphere are presented in a semi-clustered way. The site is a project by Raj @Teknobites and currently includes 100 Indian blogs with […]
Mint reports that Web18 is to launch a horizontal portal, tapping into data from the rest of the sites in its portfolio. They already have a pretty good portfolio spanning across finance, travel, sports, jobs, entertainment etc. So, it wont take too much effort in getting section specific content.
Insiders revealed that the site is likely […]
Aamir Khan blogs.
Amitabh Bachchan blogs.
Now, Shah Rukh Khan plans to blog.
Call me a skeptic, call me a pessimist, call me a critic, call me whatever.
For some reason, I just dont buy the idea of these celebrities blogging. I think all of it is bull. Worthless marketing gimmicks. From some of the blog posts, it already […]
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