Some of my friends asked me to walk them through the virality of a social app so I put this little calculator together. With many building apps on a social graph such as facebook, I thought others may find this useful. It could help folks start to think about the metrics they may want to […]
What are startups doing about the dollar?
Its hard to read the newspapers these days without reading about the impact of dollar depreciation on Indian export industry, including IT Services and BPO. Large players like Wipro and TCS have taken the hit (stock markets will tell you that), but have also been able to come up with plans to counter the issue. […]
TiE Summit Dec 11-13 2007
The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), is hosting TiE Entrepreneurial Summit (TES) 2007, TiE’s pan Asia annual flagship event scheduled from December 11th-13th at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi. Titled “Entrepreneurship is the Futureâ€, TES is the collaborative effort of 17 Chapters across Asia. TES 2007 topics will cover various sessions on the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, the Investment […]
Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2008
From Gartner’s Press Release Gartner’s top 10 strategic technologies for 2008 1. Green IT 2. Unified Communications (UC) 3. Business Process Management 4. Metadata Management 5. Virtualization 2.0 6. Mashups & Composite Applications 7. Web Platform & WOA 8. Computing Fabrics 9. Real World Web 10. Social Software Are there any core technology focused Angel […]
Importance of LOI
In startups you want to use your limited seed capital to produce tangible things that VC’s /angels can look at, get impressed and invest. ( This assumes you want VC/angel investment) These could be prototypes, beta customers, key business development deals or letters of intent. At Eko we have just signed a letter of intent […]
Games Indians Play
This is an extract from a post on another blog. Click here for the full post. In some ways I am trying to be a farmer sharing his seed corn when I write about trust or Eko. The major difference is that Eko is just starting and has won no awards but the intent to […]
Consumer ECommerce to grow to 9200 crores (IAMAI)
Latest report by IAMAI suggests consumer ecommerce will grow by around 30% this year. The high base effect of online travel is coming into play (almost accounting for 65-70% of the market). Not sure of the methodology (last three categories of Classifieds, Paid content and Digital downloads have somewhat uniform 50% growth rate) but a […]
Barcamp Mumbai 14th Oct
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Wal-Mart era drawing to an end?
The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article on shifts in the US retail scene. Wal-Mart seems set to slip from being the sole industry-defining company, and will become one of several such companies. I think the writer misses a trick in not looking at the impact of high-priced oil (most of the items that […]
Trust
We have recognized the importance of creating a ” Circle of Trust” at Eko. It is quite possible that trust may be an important element in the business of some other startups and they may get inspired by our thinking. With that in mind we have made the first version of our document available for […]
Facebook = Comcast (Lean Forward Entertainment)
This is along the lines of Alok’s post but different enough that I thought I would do a new post. When I look back in history for a model that may predict how the broad social networks will evolve, the Television industry comes to mind. Facebook would be Comcast and there will emerge channels like […]
Virtual worlds versus Social networks
CNet reports an estimate of $1b being invested in virtual worlds. While comparing with social networks, it says One of the reasons the genre still feels like a niche is that there is no single virtual world that everyone is using, like there is with social networks like MySpace or Facebook. World of Warcraft is […]