Monthly Archives: July 2007

Bootstrapping in Bangalore

So you thought that there are no Indian Entrepreneurs who love to blog. Or alteast they didn’t like to talk about starting up? Well there are. Yesterday I discovered this amazing blog, which describes in amazing detail what you need … Continue reading

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Customizing Thunderbird on Linux / Windows (config hacks)

I moved to Ubuntu 7.04 sometime back and have been enjoying myself since. Though there were a couple of things which really annoyed me, and today I finally fixed them. 1. Reply on top of previous message One problem was … Continue reading

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Creating a Web App : From the Masters

37signals is one of the hottest companies around. And it has the smartest people you can find. (The creators of Ruby on Rails and the Prototype.js framework both work for them). So when they decide to tell us how to … Continue reading

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How risky are startups?

Amar Goel has started a new blog about starting up and he writes a beautiful post about how risky it really is to startup or to join a startup. Here is why he thinks that startups are not that risky … Continue reading

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BharatStudent.com : Spamming on Orkut?

AlooTechie wrote about BharatStudent.com claiming 1.4 million registered users in four months, but the comments sections brings out a completely different story. The discussion starts with the huge number of features on BharatStudent.com and moves to it being a Orkut … Continue reading

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Proto.in

The second edition of Proto.in was held in Chennai on the 21st-22nd of July 2007. Even though I was unable to attend the event, I have heard that it was extremely well organized and brought a number of good companies … Continue reading

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How big is the internet in India? ComCast answers

AgencyFaqs comes up with the latest comCast report on the number of Internet Users in India and Usage statistics. According to them the total number of active internet users in India is about 22 million. It is up 10% from … Continue reading

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The Complete Facebook Trial story

We’ll all heard about Facebook, and we’ve all thought about moving there, but I guess it’s still not as big in India as it is in the US. It’s still orkut here, though facebook is coming on strong. And if … Continue reading

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Google joins Band of Angels

Following the news of Infosys co-founder NS Raghavan announcing a $35 million fund for early stage companies, Google, the Internet Giant, has announced that it has also joined Band of Angels here in India. They are already a part of … Continue reading

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Prakash Mundhra of Sacred Moments : Youth Curry

Rashmi Bansal of Youth Curry has started a mini-series on entrepreneurs. The first article of the series is an interview with Prakash Mundhra of Sacred Moments who started his company about an year back (May 2006), and has made over … Continue reading

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