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How the banks have shrunk

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6 Feb 2009

Here is an unsettling picture from Bloomberg which shows how much the market capitalization of the major banks have shrunk in the last two years. (Click the link to view the full image)
Citibank and RBS look really bad, falling by almost 92.5% and 96.2%.
Interestingly, among this lot, HSBC has the maximum market cap these days, [...]

Lessons in Bootstrapping

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20 Feb 2008

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 [...]

Why don’t we shop online?

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15 Feb 2008

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 [...]

Do you have a platform that I can build a business on?

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19 Dec 2007

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.

Link Sutra for July 28, 2007

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28 Jul 2007

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 [...]

Phasing out business Plans?

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28 Jul 2007

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 [...]

Aloo Techie : Internet Business and Boom time

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21 Mar 2007

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 : Getting more from advertising

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15 Mar 2007

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 [...]

Do you really need a VC?

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11 Mar 2007

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 [...]

Business Ideas – Real Estate Exchange

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23 Feb 2007

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 [...]


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