Comments on: How hot is consumer Internet space in India ? http://www.startupdunia.com/india-funding/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india-536 Indian startups | Entrepreneurship | India Internet Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dhingana http://www.startupdunia.com/india-funding/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india-536#comment-9872 dhingana Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:48:08 +0000 http://www.startupdunia.com/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india/#comment-9872 very interesting read....i have a strong feeling that in 2008 more investments are going to be in the social networking domain... very interesting read….i have a strong feeling that in 2008 more investments are going to be in the social networking domain…

]]> By: Indian govt plans action to meet projections of 20 million broadband connections http://www.startupdunia.com/india-funding/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india-536#comment-6946 Indian govt plans action to meet projections of 20 million broadband connections Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:24:50 +0000 http://www.startupdunia.com/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india/#comment-6946 [...] Indian govt plans action to meet projections of 20 million broadband connections Tag: India broadbandIndia had a target of 3 million, 9 million and 20 million broadband Internet users by 2005, 2007 and 2010 respectively. In contrast, current broadband figures stand at 2.5 million users.  The gap is expected to widen to 10 million by 2010. So, instead of the projected 20 million broadband users, India will have only 10 million users. As noted in an earlier post, penetration currently is less than 1%. [...]

[...] Indian govt plans action to meet projections of 20 million broadband connections Tag: India broadbandIndia had a target of 3 million, 9 million and 20 million broadband Internet users by 2005, 2007 and 2010 respectively. In contrast, current broadband figures stand at 2.5 million users.  The gap is expected to widen to 10 million by 2010. So, instead of the projected 20 million broadband users, India will have only 10 million users. As noted in an earlier post, penetration currently is less than 1%. [...]

]]> By: pranav http://www.startupdunia.com/india-funding/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india-536#comment-6713 pranav Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:43:08 +0000 http://www.startupdunia.com/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india/#comment-6713 Let me see if I can come up with an interesting way to plot the dimensions of advertising and revenues against the figures from this post... Let me see if I can come up with an interesting way to plot the dimensions of advertising and revenues against the figures from this post…

]]> By: pranav http://www.startupdunia.com/india-funding/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india-536#comment-6712 pranav Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:41:56 +0000 http://www.startupdunia.com/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india/#comment-6712 Satpal, very true - the travel portals that have been so successful - these have combined the offline - online model well. To reach the 'critical mass', you need to go offline as well :-) Satpal,

very true – the travel portals that have been so successful – these have combined the offline – online model well. To reach the ‘critical mass’, you need to go offline as well :-)

]]> By: satpal http://www.startupdunia.com/india-funding/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india-536#comment-6709 satpal Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:16:33 +0000 http://www.startupdunia.com/how-hot-is-consumer-internet-space-in-india/#comment-6709 Nice analysis Pranav.You could have made this look more interesting by adding some economic aspect like size of online advertising (life blood of present day internet ventures) and revenue and cash flow of existing ventures (reddif,indiatimes,info edge). I would like to add that from consumer point of you indian internet market is very cold.I hardly see any entreprenuer comming with local idea with global standard execution.Too many me-toos donot make it a exiting place. ANothey way to look at this is that indian internet market is vigin. Tt is more open then for experimentaion then any other market.No visible brands.No great success stories. Problem with indian internet market is its user base.User base have not reached to a critical mass can lift (and hence reward) a (original) idea overnight.To be successful in indina it isnecessary to have both online and offline presence for whcih you need lots of capital.This create a chicken and egg like situation.You will not have traction becoz u lack offline presence and u would not like to have offline presence till u get proof of concept online and get a VC to fund your expension. IMHO we dnot need VCs we need ideas and people who can execute those ideas to the prefection. Nice analysis Pranav.You could have made this look more interesting by adding some economic aspect like size of online advertising (life blood of present day internet ventures) and revenue and cash flow of existing ventures (reddif,indiatimes,info edge).

I would like to add that from consumer point of you indian internet market is very cold.I hardly see any entreprenuer comming with local idea with global standard execution.Too many me-toos donot make it a exiting place.

ANothey way to look at this is that indian internet market is vigin. Tt is more open then for experimentaion then any other market.No visible brands.No great success stories.

Problem with indian internet market is its user base.User base have not reached to a critical mass can lift (and hence reward) a (original) idea overnight.To be successful in indina it isnecessary to have both online and offline presence for whcih you need lots of capital.This create a chicken and egg like situation.You will not have traction becoz u lack offline presence and u would not like to have offline presence till u get proof of concept online and get a VC to fund your expension.

IMHO we dnot need VCs we need ideas and people who can execute those ideas to the prefection.

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