OM Careers is a non-profit, online marketing careers community, dedicated to addressing the challenge of lack of skilled resources in the Online/Search marketing industry. OM Careers is playing host to OMCAR 2008, world’s first online marketing careers conference in Delhi on Jan 12, 2008. The event will be coupled with a unique Job clinic opportunity […]
2008 India Venture Polls
Happy to kickoff some venture polls for 2008. Given how often VCs get it wrong, I thought I’d stay away from making predictions, and rather get the community view! survey software – Take Our Poll web surveys – Take Our Poll If you would like to run another venture poll, please go ahead! 0
The Startups Are Hiring.
Did you know that the best job for a fresher is in a startup? Well, it is. Did you know that the best job for a growing professional or someone who loves challenges, is in a startup? Well, it is. One of the biggest problems that startups have is in hiring people. During the last […]
Event Notification : 5th Meetup of Mobile Monday Delhi
I am Very excited to inform you that we have finalized the schedule for next meeting of Mobile Monday Delhi Chapter. Our Fifth Meetup will be on 5th of JAN 2008. I would like to invite VW community to be a part of this Event and share your thoughts with fellow mobile enthusiasts. Details of […]
Designing/Developing a payment gateway
I’m not sure if I’m posting this piece in a correct section or not. Let me know if it happens to land into wrong section. Recently I looking for some good and cheap payment gateway vendors, for my small e-commerce application. The target client base is all Indian and currency would be all INR. I […]
Will Global Entrepreneurship be the Next Trend?
A friend of mine and I, had this elaborate discussion on some of the advantages of actually being in the valley. Well, Thomas Fieldman is proving himself to be right with the globe turning more and more flat as the years pass by and I am quite positively sure that position holds not that much […]
Admin – VentureWoods upgrade
All of you might have seen venturewoods in transition over past month or so. Thanks for bearing with us through a relatively slow upgrade effort. The key things we have been able to accomplish are: Transitioning to the latest wordpress system to provide us flexibility going forward Have author names on individual post pages, and […]
Go to Market
Subject: Go to Market Going to Market is always a big event for a startup and I am glad to report that we went live today at our pilot location with real money and a real bank. For about a month we will be controlled and will go into full pilot only after that. I […]
The Creation of a Sustainable Ecosystem.
This is perhaps a wee bit of eerie timing, as there are posts by Sujai* and quite a few others circulating around the blogosphere with some very serious questions about the Indian entrepreneurship ecosystem. Perhaps its of relevance to go through the basics yet again and what it would take to make this ecosystem mature, […]
Top 5 Usability Challenges
Jared Spool has an interesting article on top user experience challenges. They are: Scalability Visual Design Comprehension Interactivity Change Management The other gap I see very often is Site Speed. In my experience, speed makes a tremendous difference to how much a site gets used. What is your sense on readiness of India’s skill pool […]
Facebook Demographics
Interesting presentation on facebook demographics and marketing case studies. Key points: 56% Female Only 46% in Professional jobs or Students – notice the shift here from earlier student-only position Demographics are shifting fast over time – interesting implications for marketeers Marketing is more a function of communication than advertising – engage with your audience – […]
Evolving Online Video …
As the founder of ventunotech.com , I might have been biased on my thoughts when I wrote the article below. Hence posting it here for a reality check. Every media distribution technology was built upon its predecessor. Television did not simply appear – it evolved from the radio. TV’s evolution is marked by a series […]