Archive for May, 2007

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Shaking the market

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18 May 2007

This is how you do business.
When I started looking for a place to host this blog and the company website, Mr Google told me that there were thousands of places where I could do it. Eventually, after a lot of digging I reached this site called HostMySite, and a couple of other web hosts, and [...]

Getting rid of Adsense and Paid Posts

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16 May 2007

While going through an older entry in a diary, I remembered that the sole idea of using Adsense and the myriad collection of advertisements on my blog was to recover the amount of money I had put in to start this blog. So yesterday I sat down to calculate how much I had earned off [...]

Why is there no social component in startups in India.

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15 May 2007

This post is really a comment I had posted on VentureWoods :
What we lack is a medium of interaction. We talk about Techcrunch and how it empowers the startups in the valley, but the part that we miss is that the valley is well connected. Not on the internet, but also off it.
Consider this. This [...]

Uday of IndiaSphere wants websites to Differentiate, localize and enhance

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15 May 2007

Welcome to the the interviews section on Gyaan Sutra. Today I had the pleasure of talking to Uday, who started IndiaSphere. In an email interview, Uday talks about his site, the latest changes, and why it is doing better than its competitors. And also the best Indian website that he has used – Indianpad. Uday [...]

VentureHacks : How to beat the right to first refusal

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14 May 2007

It’s time to link again.
VentureHacks, a blog run by Nivi and Naval Ravikant, brings out a descriptive post about how to save yourself from VC’s when raising convertible debt. This is what inspired the post
[Our existing investors] had put in a right of first refusal. Since I was a young entrepreneur at the time, I [...]

The need for search engines which can handle Ajax

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14 May 2007

Ajax has been around for years. People have used it to create amazing products, and people have also regularly slammed it.
One of the reasons ‘The Ajax Buzz’ is discounted is the SEO team. Their point is completely valid that Ajax does not show up in the search engines, so you lose out on a lot [...]

The Latest Carnival of The Capitalists

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14 May 2007

I welcome all of you to the first edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists here at Gyaan Sutra. This carnival covers the latest and greatest posts on business, and travels from city to city, country to country and continent to conitnent.
This week The Cotc has landed in Pune, India, at my blog Gyaan [...]

Podbharti.com : Hindi Podcasts

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13 May 2007

With podcasting catching up in India, Hindi bloggers couldn’t have stayed far behind. So here comes a great new website to cater to the growing gap, called PodBharti.com which gives you podcasts purely in Hindi. Started by Debashish Chakrabarty and Shashi Singh, PodBharti gives you News and Views and stories from the blogosphere, completely in [...]

How to take a closer look at Alexa rankings (Bigger Images)

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13 May 2007

I was just playing around with the PNG url of the image, and I just found out that you can see the ranking display of the Alexa site at any dimension you feel like. All you have to do is edit the display URL. For example, the regular image size is 300×610, and by clicking [...]

Interview with Kiran Bettadapur, co-founder and CEO Cylive Inc, about entrepreneurship and Cylive, the website

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12 May 2007

The adrenalin rush of working on a startup is way better than working on a 9-5 job. And, I will say that in a heartbeat!
This is how Kiran Bettadapur, who is the Co-founder & CEO of Cylive Corporation and a serial entrepreneur sums up about entrepreneurship.
In an email interview he talks about Cylive, their [...]


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