Seventymm.com, India’s first Online DVD rental company, based mostly on the NetFlix idea, is hoping to break even by the end of this year. Though with the entry of Reliance Entertainment, Nimbus and MoserBaer the place looks to become congested, Seventymm is trying to capitalize on it’s early mover advantage and capture as much of [...]
Cannan partners, who had earlier invested $8.5 million in BharatMatrimony.com has made a new announcement. They will be investing $3.1 million in iYogi, along with SVB Financial Group.
iYogi is a Delhi based computer support startup started by Uday Challu (formerly with NewGen Software) and Vishal Dhar (former CEO of Friday Corporation).
The company provides 24×7 live [...]
Pricing is difficult.
Unlike programming, most of the business issues don’t have a convergent set of answers. So when it comes to taking decisions, relying on gut and some random bits of information is the best that one can do. Yet, if you are a freelancer and have no prior experience in pricing a product, this [...]
Seth Godin has come out with a new book called ‘The Dip’, and he answers Guy Kawasaki’s Ten Questions on the Book. I haven’t been through the book yet, as Seth didn’t provide it to me (well if knew me, he might have), and I’m too lazy to go ahead to buy it right now. [...]
The simple rule of business of starting up is that when your money runs out, your company is deal. We go on till there is more money to pay the bills. This is why if you don’t have funding when you start up, it is essential to keep the money flowing in, while working as [...]
NGCoders announces that after three weeks of coding he has finally launched IndiaTVSchedule.com. ITVS is a TV listing site, which which not only provides the Daily TV Listing but also aggregates information and video content from other sites.
The site lists the most popular TV channels and shows what is on at this particular time, along [...]
BJP MP Bahubhai Katara was caught on Sunday with another woman and a kid posing as his wife and son. They were trying to catch a flight to Toronto.
But the best part was that he was caught with locally made Viagra. I wonder what it would have felt like if I had voted for him.
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FeedBurner’s Dick Costolo writes in his latest post about the lessons from the previous companies which can be used in the new ones. He argues that most of the lessons learnt from the previous endeavor are limited to the last company itself, as in they would be most useful if you started the last company [...]
The Supreme Court has rejected the government’s appeal of delaying admissions till the OBC quotas could be worked out.
Long live the Supreme Court.
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Telecom regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended that all ISP’s should route their traffic through the under-utilized National Internet Exchange. TRAI is hoping that this would bring down internet and broadband charges in India.
In a recent survey by TRAI, the overall customer satisfaction level was 5.42%. Only 7 of the 129 operators met the [...]
