Today, RBI took another incremental step in defining Mobile Payments in India. The bank has published draft guidelines for Mobile Payments – “Mobile Payments in India – Operative Guidelines for Banks†. It’s encouraging that steps are taken in recognizing the industry and putting standards around it. However; it seems like a cautious approach. My […]
Social Startup CEO opportunity – Delhi
Rahul has taken a project that I had done as a fellow at Stanford and scaled it. He has just got a grant from Ford Foundation for $250,000 and is looking for a CEO as described here. If you know anyone who may fit the bill please ask them to contact Rahul directly. At some […]
Tech company social network- vator.tv
Vator.tv is a social network for technology startup companies which gives entrepreneurs a platform to connect with Investors, Acquirers and Media. Vator.tv gives Investors useful tools to keep track of companies and industries that interest them, and provides a revolutionary interaction platform to discover the best investment opportunities in technology. http://vator.tv/ 0
A Funded Startup: An Alienated Brother?
I have seen this cycle happen over and over again. There would be a set of guys who’d be around in most barcamps and social circles and someday they’d decide to start a company, and eventually build a product that’d gain quite a bit of traction from the “first adopters” that you find in barcamps, […]
TiE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge – Final Nominations
Hi All, It’s my pleasure to introduce this community to final eight entries of TiE Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008 Name Category 11rupees.com Internet – Financial Services Good Morning Research KPO – Financial Services Druvaa Software Software Ginni Systems Limited Software iKen Solutions Pvt Ltd Software Infogile Technologies Mobile Rx Healthcaremagic Pvt. Ltd Internet – HealthCare […]
OWASP AppSec India Conference 2008
As you might be aware, OWASP (The Open Web Application Security Project) is a globally recognized leading body for Web Application Security standards, Frameworks, Tools and Guides, with its mission of “finding and fighting the cause of insecure software.” The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a worldwide free and open community focused on […]
Neeru Khosla On Education and Doing a Startup
Neeru Khosla ‘s name might ring a bell for some people. She is married to the legendary venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. In all these years Neeru has remained firmly under the radar and took care of her family. But for the past couple of years Neeru has been diligently working away on a non-profit organization […]
Startup School 08 Videos
Startup School is an annual free conference for hackers interested in startups. This year notable speakers included Mike Arrington, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos and Paul Graham. The website is http://startupschool.org/ The videos are at http://omnisio.com/startupschool08 0
Twitter and the Rickshawalla
A few days ago I decided to try out twitter and came across an interesting post by Josh Kopelman titled Some new thoughts on the Atomization of Conversation. Here is a part of the post On Sunday morning, our seven-year old daughter awoke with sharp pain in the lower right-hand corner of her stomach. Fearing […]
Vision India 2020: More Multi-Billion Dollar Venture Ideas
After the first 4 pieces, Preface, MIT India: Engineering Education, Urja: Global Fashion Brand, and Lucid: K-12 Education, here are two new ones: Darjeeling: A Tea Lounge Brand and Renaissance: A Heritage Holidays Brand. Hope you enjoy these, and also, do let me know what concepts *you* would like to see explored in the Vision […]
Last and Final Call for Proto.in July Edition ’08.
The Nominations for this edition of Proto.in seems like they all came in in a flurry in the last couple of weeks in quite a bit of speed. We have close to 80 Nominations and some very fabulously interesting companies – there are 12 that I am personally handpicking after a lot of debate and […]