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Employee Attrition – Should Startups be worried about?

By sinha 8 Comments

[Guest post by Sanjay Anandaram, entrepreneur turned investor.] I received am email from the CEO of a company that had just lost a few employees. These ex-employees had apparently started a competing company. Here’s an extract from the CEO’s mail: … Read More »

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17 Jan

BigAdda’s Traffic Decline – SEO Gone Wrong?

By sinha 8 Comments

As of now, if you search for BigAdda in Google, the first organic result is not of BigAdda.com, but BigAdda.in (a site on jokes). Looks like somebody has really screwed up the seo at BigAdda site – only ~4K pages … Read More »

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15 Jan

Rural Internet Users/State of Vernacular Content in India

By sinha 10 Comments

As of March 2008, there were 3.3 million active rural Internet users in India. Given the high levels of literacy in rural India and very low levels of English speaking population, the survey (conducted jointly by IMRB and IAMAI) made … Read More »

carousel, iamai, local language, vernacular

26 Nov

21 Oct

What are the Critical Success Factors of your Business?

By sinha 4 Comments

[Guest post by Sanjay Anandaram, entrepreneur-turned-investor.] In the late 1990s, a large number of Internet entrepreneurs emerged in India, spurred no doubt, by the successful acquisition of Indiaworld by Sify. All of these young entrepreneurs were convinced that they had … Read More »

carousel, Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship resources, VC speak

14 Oct

Indian Rickshaw goes hi-tech

By sinha 6 Comments

Indian autorickshaw is going hi-tech and the newer version (termed ‘soleckshaw’) will run on solar energy. Few unique features: Pedalled normally or run on a 36-volt solar battery has a top speed of 15 kilometres (9.3 miles) per hour, has … Read More »

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09 Sep

Money Saving Tips for Entrepreneurs (Cash is King)

By Kartik Varma 19 Comments

Contrary to popular opinion in Bollywood, I think that Cash is King. Singh is just bling. This post looks at ways in which start-ups in India can conserve their cash and find ways to save money – highly relevant in … Read More »

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07 Aug

Why Wipro, Infosys and TCS are “Axis of Evil” for Indian startups!

By sinha 146 Comments

[Guest post by Vishal Gondal, Founder of IndiaGames. VIshal sold his major stake to Tom Online/later to UTV Software Communications, and recently launched a seed fund venture called Sweat And Blood Venture Group. This article by Vishal echoes the true … Read More »

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24 Jul

On Startup Failure : Why my software startup failed and How I went Bankrupt?

By sinha 33 Comments

It takes a lot of guts and courage to talk about one’s failure. Vijay Rayapati, bootstrapped his startup and shares his story on the failure and lessons learnt.A must-read for every entrepreneur

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