[ I was planing a small musing and then saw a post from Sumeet, so thought of completing it. ] Almost two months back, Druvaa hit its lowest … and merely 1 month from our first few paid deployments we were holding heads in hands with no clue how to proceed further. Low on resources, […]
Domestic BPO market – next big opportunity?
Avendus has a report out on the domestic BPO sector. With the decline of the dollar and the expansion of the India domestic market in all spheres, could this be the next big opportunity? Historically, the outsourcing market in India has been export focused and most participants have been focusing their energies in building businesses […]
Inflection point for Mobile VAS?
ET had an interesting article a couple of days ago on declining SMS usage in India –http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Indians_dont_just_talk_less_… While the absolute number of SMS’s sent continue to grow (simply because Indian operators continue to add subs at a mind-boggling rate), the average SMS message per user fell significantly in the Sep. quarter relative to the June […]
VentureWoods India Venture Polls 2008
Results of VentureWoods 2008 India Venture Polls are out! Interesting findings: Activity is predicted to shift to areas that have been a “wait and watch” last year – mobile data services, ecommerce, online education, local language etc. It will be interesting to see if these remain at that stage or finally mature. A lot of […]
The dilemma of being an entrepreneur
I think entrepreneurship is a fashion nowadays rather than being a passion. And there are many blogs, which add air to the wanna-be-entrepreneur feeling. We see the success of the other entrepreneurs but fail to see their struggle and how hard they have learnt from their failures. What we see on the blogs is which […]
State of Innovation in India
Read Write Web has an interesting article on the state of innovation in India. I agree with most of what the author says in terms of transition over last ten years. Within the context of technology businesses, which is what the article focuses on, I am not sure of whether concept arbitrage theme (which is […]
OM Careers to Host World’s First Online Marketing Careers Conference
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!
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 […]