The internet is full of advice, both good and bad, and most of us keep running through hundreds of feeds every day, to make sure that if there is any good in there we will find it.
So when you happen to reach a place where you find tons of excellent posts, it’s hard not to [...]
Online shopping will never pick up in India.
Atleast not the way it is currently designed.
It has been 14 years since Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com. And for the last 14 years nobody has really tried to change anything about the way in which Online Shopping is conducted. Ofcourse every year hundreds of startups with loads of [...]
If you plan to start working in technology, this is the first and the last question you need to convince your customers about.
As always, Seth Godin is right on target.
I start this edition of Link Sutra with a pointer to a post talking about a customer-oriented, critical-thinking, bootstrapping entrepreneur. The kinds you meet everyday. Or Not. (link)
Yes, it is about the sabzi wala, who has a huge possible customer base, but limited resources, devoid of manpower, with a miniscule market share, yet not without [...]
This is what all of us have always hoped for, now we see some proof.
Paul Kedrosky, in one of his latest posts talks about business-plan-less Twitter securing its second round of funding. He sums it up with
Whatever your feelings about Twitter, business plans are overrated, and profits perhaps even more so.(link)
It’s difficult to [...]
Rajesh Barnwal, from Aloo Techie.com has a really long post on the topic ‘Internet Businesses : Is the Boom real this time. The post lists the points which were discussed at the recent Venture Intelligence organized round table event called ‘Internet & Mobile Connect’ on venture capital investing in the internet-based services and the mobile [...]
iAnnounce, is a new startup from UK, which is going to take up data (advertisements) from the clients website and produce interactive mini-sites, which will help users find relevant advertising themselves.
It is more of a search engine to advertise the publisher’s advertisements. An interesting concept, which seems to have a lot of takers already. They [...]
Bootstrapping is out of fashion. Every second company these days goes looking for a venture capitalist, and start off the company firing on both ends. But it you are a budding entrepreneur, and are looking for funding, I must tell you that playing with VC’s has more problems than you know about. They can get [...]
The real estate community is going to get it’s first exchange in India. It’s not a government undertaking, but a website called Jaydaad, which says it would start operation by June this year.
Getting real estate to retail is an interesting idea, but we would have to wait and see how it works out. Given the [...]
Kirkland’s Terra Bite Lounge is probably the only one of its kind. What is strange about this coffee shop is that it’s menu does not show any prices. Yes, customers pay what they feel like. And it seems to be doing really well, with a low-overhead business model and narrow profit margin they seem to [...]
