BuyThePrice is an e-commerce startup by Hyderabad based myZingo. The site wants to leverage on the social media reach of its buyers to enable bulk buy discounts. The site uses a differential pricing slab based on the quantity of product sold within a given time window. Like any shopping site the buyer pays the...
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Will it kill the Industry? Even with increase in population and growth in students taking up higher education, the medical industry is seeing lack of interest. The number of MBBS aspirants are seriously declining and situation will soon be alarming. And guess what, better paid engineers are to be blamed for this! Quick overview on...
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We are talking here about a pure price bargain and not negotiation of service terms etc. “Bargaining or haggling is a type of negotiation in which the buyer and seller of a good or service dispute the price which will be paid and the exact nature of the transaction that will take place, and eventually...
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An outsourced development work for a web/tech company is never recommended as that should be your core competency but still if you have made the mistake of doing so, the following points must be kept in mind. One common mistake that companies make while outsourcing a development work is that they tend to believe that...
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ClipWeave.com is a Noida based video analytics startup that helps extract information from videos so that it can be used for better targeting and monetization. Clipweave claims to use proprietary technology to extract text (credits, ticker, subtitles etc), convert speech-to-text, detect a change of scene etc. from videos. Such information can be used for...
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Dunnitt is a micro collaboration tool. It lets you create threads with a micro message (140 chars) and share it with a collaboration group. Each thread could be Text Only, YesNo, Question, Sign Up Sheet, Multiple Choice or Meet Up. And with proper input fields for each of them. Dunnit is aimed to be...
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This ad has been making the rounds on Facebook for quite some days now. Take a guess on the advertiser. It is not a porn chat site or an adult friendship site. It is India’s biggest matrimonial site, Shaadi.com. Shocked? There is no doubt that such ads work. Not for the brand but for the campaign...
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Group bargain sites are all over the place and every event i go to i hear about 1 more launching soon. Group buying or Crowd Bargain sites as they are called are eCommerce sites that leverage social networking to find enough other buyers to become eligible for group discounts. In the past month i...
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Design Chords is an online Marketplace for all your design needs ranging from Logo to Twitter background and packaging etc. For SMEs who cannot afford to go for agency work this a boon. Also for freelancers this is another place to hunt for work. The process is simple as any other market place. 1. Post your...
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KuLacak (English translated) is a GPS vehicle tracking system from Indonesia based Indogeotech Darma Solutions. Although the device is a no-brainer, what’s interesting is that the whole system is a  simple plug and play. After buying the device you can start tracking it immediately on the site with the product ID mentioned on your ...
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India has one of the highest deaf populations in the world with approximately 6% of the population suffering some kind of hearing loss. One person who heard this curse right is banker turned entrepreneur Dhruv Lakra. Dhruv founded Mirakle Couriers, a Mumbai based courier company that employs only deaf people. They employ deaf male adults...
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Mobile ad network InMobi has entered into an exclusive tie up with Hi5 to serve ads on the latter’s Mobile Site. The tie-up is only for Hi5’s Thailand traffic. This tie-up will help boost Hi5’s revenue growth and also help create InMobi’s dominance in the mobile advertising space. Depending on the mutual...
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We all probably know a lot about HR management and the value of good team in a startup. To further help on the same issue we surveyed some startup employees and have compiled a list of most popular and significant mistakes committed by some well known Indian startups and their founders. For privacy issues...
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Studio18 in partnership with Google is all set to release Siddharath Narayan starrer Striker on Youtube. The movie will be released on Youtube on the 5th of Feb, same date as the theater release. This is the first Indian movie to be released on Internet. The movie will be available in US for $5...
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Google has released a chrome extension for Orkut. The extension allows you to search for friends, directly jump to their profile page, check scrap count etc. Orkut is losing its command as the Social network of choice in India. Lately, there have been a lot of arguments on why Orkut is sliding (read: Orkut ...
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Bookase is a Delhi based price comparison site for books. The site compares book prices from the top online stores. The application currently sources prices from International bookstores only with prices in USD and is not targeted at the Indian audience. The prices are quoted with the shipping charges which is very important as...
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Grabbon is Bangalore based startup that is trying to bring the power of collective bargain to the buyers. The site offers huge discounts on shopping, eating and other lifestyle spending with the standard Woot concept of 1 offer a day. The offers are valid only if a treshold number of orders are received within...
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Eros Bollywood is OVI application for Bollywood Streaming. It is apparently the first Bollywood streaming application ready on Nokia S60 5th edition devices. The app streams Bollywood songs , Movie Trailors, Director’s cut etc. The app can be downloaded on your Nokia devices from the OVI store. See the YouTube video launch of the application: Nokia...
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Invoicera is a Delhi based startup that offers invoice generation system as a SaaS tool. The UI is very neat and seems to have been given some serious effort. The service comes with some very needful features like: • Multiple Currency Support (with real time currency conversion) • Automatic Invoice Scheduling • Alerts & Reminders • Late Fees...
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Most of us are already aware of the points mentioned in bold below. Here’s a case study of SavitaBhabhi.com (Now Kirtu.com) in the same context. 1. Discover a problem: SavitaBhabhi found its nail in the form of need for Indian porn on the web. Although a lot of porn sites already existed but there was...
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