TAAZ is brought to you by an IIT Kharagpur graduate Satya Mallick based out of California. He is my college senior, so please bear with the bias . I recently chatted with him on GTalk about his strategy for TAAZ and how it all started for him. Here is some curated transcript. AN: How...
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So the question is, does an MBA help in tech entrepreneurship? Let’s consider the following three broad categories where any wannabe entrepreneur with some industry experience would fit in. Entrepreneur is an Engineer and an MBA Entrepreneur is an Engineer alone Entrepreneur is none of the above – drop outs/oblique entrepreneurs Who has the...
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Rentoys is a Bangalore based startup which supplies Toys on Rent for kids in age group of new-born to 6 years. The website is very neatly done and great emphasis has been placed on step-by-step process of renting and handling of toys along with safety, hygiene and value.  The moment we got request to...
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For couple of weeks we have been reporting on rising interest in the West to set up business hubs in Asia. We have Zynga setting up in Bangalore, Facebook coming  – albeit backend operations – in Hyderabad, Amazon Web Services coming up in Singapore and now Xerox. Yeah, Xerox have setup a research facility...
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Ok. Yet another post which digresses from core style of Pluggd.in. But then that’s the fun part of it! For over decades now we are a part of a society which breathes on technology and even survives by it. Be it over the internet or mobile network or just about anything else. Awesome online...
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We all know about the ‘matured market’ of the west; they’d say  – do your startup here – this is where all the action is – this where money is – scaling is an issue in Asia and bla bla bla. No doubt, all this is very true but then its kind of hard...
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In this piece on UID, Pratyush & I discuss on some Hygiene issues that would make or break the UID system. And we will definitely refer to the Technical Scope of the recent tenders as well. In our last post, we had someone from the UID team telling us about the sarcasm...
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Good hiring is always a tough task for any startup. And receding recession could mean even more challenge in the situation, when talent within starts looking at options outside. For greener pastures or simply for the sake of change. Operationally speaking, the cash pay-out of hiring goes way too higher than the recession days...
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Okhey, this post is a little off-beat. Women’s Reservation Bill giving 33 percent representation to women in parliament and state assemblies has been passed in the Rajya Sabha with 186 ayes & 1 noes about an hour ago! Yet another historic & welcome development in the Indian politics as women really need empowerment in...
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Next time when you decide on a Bollywood flick, do not refer to just one or two reviews here and there. Drop in at ReviewGang and see all major reviews by all the stakeholders of Bollywood. Better still, contribute with your own reviews on movies as well for the general benefit of population. Both...
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Around 4 years now, Pluggd.in has been constantly and consistently building a community around Technology startups. This encompasses everyone who wants to make a difference in the digital landscape in Asia – developers, entrepreneurs, investors and even users of internet products. We’ve been contributing in all national or local events on a continuous basis...
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OK 19 bids have been received against UIDAI’s tender invitation to engage and Application Software Development, Maintenance & Support Agency (ASDMSA) via. TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL and IBM are few among the participants in the competition. Now before I set to dissect the exercise, let’s take a look at the following sequence-of-events in the...
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Opera Software – Oslo, Norway – has struck out a native version of Opera Mini 5 beta for Windows Mobile 5- and 6-based handsets. In their official statement the Opera confirms that “by integrating Opera Mini with the Windows Mobile platform, Opera is able to deliver an optimized version of the popular Opera Mini browser...
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Venture Capital firms invested approximately $475 million over 92 deals in India during the twelve months ending December 2009. The number was considerably lower compared to 2008 which had witnessed $836 million invested across 153 deals.
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UID has been the flavor of the season for some time at Pluggd now. We have talked about UID opening up to 3rd party developers, UID for school children, UID as a micro-finance platform and also some UID related leaks. The project has an ambitious punchline associated with it too: “India is slated to become the...
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We are probably at a point of time where one would see plenty of interesting software products/businesses coming out from India lately. I am saying this because at Pi we are looking at somewhat mass behavior among the Technology Services startups. Many are slowly moving into product business lately; a natural step expected from...
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Unique IDentification Authority of India (UIDAI) has embraced collaboration in its latest message for client-side Software development. Here is the message: “We believe that a National project of this magnitude and importance cannot be implemented without the active support and involvement of people at various levels and in varying degrees – communicating the message of...
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As per the latest Opera Web Report (Opera Mini), Google enjoys the dominating position in mobile Web search(9% of all page-views) in the United States easily outpacing rivals Yahoo! and Bing, with 4.3% and 0.03% of page views, respectively.  In the Middle East too, among mobile Web users, Google is at the top of...
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Time and again I come across startups that flaunt expensive crowd-sourcing tools around their offerings. Trying to reach out as far as possible, using the most coveted of web 2.0 solutions available these days. But the effort is never quite ever up to the mark. Partly due to lack of reason, and part in...
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It is totally beyond doubt that social media can help resolve our long pending social issues. But we are yet to see how that’s gonna happen to Asia. Here is a another frontier for the local Tibetans to rejoice & reveal their solidarity: Tibetans can simply follow their Holy leader Dalai Lama online on Twitter. It...
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