With reference to the growth of e-com in India ,now digital money is growing at the cost of liquid cash.This digital money could be a credit card (if it is credit card ,than all chances of it being visa) or a mobile cash.But even mobile transcactions are taking place thru credit cards.In India we do not see real mobile cash like the […]
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Top 10 Tech Trends To Watch
We started this week’s roundtable with a discussion of the top 10 tech trends to watch for the upcoming decade. The trends include Cloud Computing, Outsourcing, Social Web, Vertical and Local Web, Smartphones and Tablets, Online Advertising, Online Video, Online Gaming, eBooks, and Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship. You can find details in the blog post on http://www.sramanamitra.com. […]
TiE Entrepreneurial Summit – Call to register
The largest entrepreneurship symposiums in Asia in its fifth year – TiE Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2010: “Enterprising India – Changing the Nation, Leading the Worldâ€, a 3 day mega event scheduled in Delhi from 21st – 23rd Dec 2010 that would focus on entrepreneurial opportunities in a wide range of domains; world renowned selection of […]
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Where Should You Raise Money?
During this week’s roundtable we had a group of entrepreneurs from the Pune Open Coffee Club gather at the offices of Persistent Systems to participate in the roundtable together. It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. […]
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interes...
During this week’s roundtable, one of the questions that I answered was about the One Million by One Million program’s plans around supporting social enterprises. Well, 1M/1M is focused on helping businesses generate $1M in annual revenue, whatever be the nature of the business. We see a lot of businesses that can be characterized as […]
Different
I am currently reading “Different” by Youngme Moon ( HBS marketing faculty) which talks of “idea brands” among other things. This book coupled with Innovators Solution by Clayton Christensen are books that may inspire some of the people who will create billion dollar market cap companies in India from scratch. For most entrepreneurs hitting a […]
Deloitte Fast 50 India 2010
Congratulations to all the winners! (go to page 6) Deloitte winners report technology_fast_50_2010 0
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory
During this week’s roundtable I addressed a commonly held critique of the 1M/1M program: that we’re focusing on the basics and stating the obvious. I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. Well, I have coached […]
Businessworld Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2011
Inviting applications for the Businessworld Young Entrepreneurs Awards 2011. The last date for applications is December 15, 2010. Eligibility Criteria: All founders must be under 35 years old as on December 31, 2010. Companies must be at least 2 years old and less than 5 years old as on March 31, 2011. Five winners will […]
Mobile app distribution channels – Crosspost
Interesting post on mobile app distribution channels. Beginning to see more and more mobile app businesses in India as well, Read here 0
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: African Tech Entrepreneurs Emerging
I liked all of the companies that were presented at this week’s roundtable. And it was really cool to see a company from Tanzania. I LOVE the international nature of the 1M/1M initiative. First up today was Joshua Schwadron presenting Betterfly, a startup he founded earlier this year that aims to offer an easier way […]
1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview
At today’s roundtable I offered a sneak preview into the One Million by One Million Premium Lounge we have just unveiled to a small group of core users. To get started, I suggest you take a look at three videos messages: To Entrepreneurs, To Investors, and To The Media.  The premium lounge includes an […]