Tag Archives: india

31 May

Hottest Indian Startups and Quick Statistics On Indian Entrepreneurs

By you 5 Comments

[First user submitted post (within 4 hours of announcement), by Paras Chopra. Paras presents few interesting observation/statistics on Indian Startups] Recently, a Business Today article featured India’s Hottest Startups. The article lists startups from many different industries, from organic food … Read More »

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05 Dec

Seed stage investment in India : Reality check

By sinha 6 Comments

VC investment in India stands at 777mn $, and private equity closed deals worth $13.5bn in 2007. India Shining? Well, yes but the real question is where is the money going? As per the report by Stanford University and TiE, … Read More »

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02 Dec

Couple of updates and announcements

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Update: Reverted back to the good old theme – many of you sent me emails asking to get back to the “older way of viewing” pluggd.in! If you have been a regular reader, you must have noticed a “monkey” playing … Read More »

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27 Nov

Ground realities from a technology product startup in India

By sinha 21 Comments

[Guest post by Sujai Karampuri, co-founder of Sloka Telecom. Sujai shares his entrepreneurial journey in the most candid way and this post reflects the state of pure technology investment in India. A must read for VCs/Entrepreneurs and anybody who is … Read More »

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31 Aug

Podcast with uber podcaster, Kiruba Shankar

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Kiruba needs no introduction and it won’t be wrong to call him the ‘grand old man of Indian podcasting scenario’ (i.e. considering that I am a new “kid’ in the block!) Here is presenting my podcast with Kiruba. The podcast … Read More »

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09 Jul

Comscore’s India Internet Report – Internet penetration at 3% only!

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Comscore's India Internet Report - Internet penetration at 3% only!

Comscore has released the Indian internet statistics and here are the key findings: Indian Internet population stands at 22 million The Internet penetration in India is only 3%! Yahoo! sites lead the pack with 14 million unique visitors in April … Read More »

 
25 Jun

Academics and product development in India – Reality Check

By Sri... 5 Comments

With the empowerment of web, and India being the hub to generate servicing revenues, I wonder why isn’t enough attention paid to improve the academic value system?. I don’t mean IITs/IIMs which are well known for outsourcing best resources elsewhere … Read More »

 
17 Jun

Web 2.0 Trends : India moves along…

By Sri... 9 Comments
Web 2.0 Trends : India moves along...

Internet is catching up on a higher scale in India, with the entrance of web 2.0 companies, rich user content driven portals, and interactive web applications.On a global spectrum Internet driven web services [SOAP,WSDL] are in need than the age … Read More »

 
23 Mar

What are Indians searching for in the Internet?

By sinha 3 Comments
What are Indians searching for in the Internet?

While the cricket frenzy has engulfed the whole of India, let’s look at what are Indians searching for in the Internet: A quick look at data from Jan and Feb throws some interesting insight: [Bollywood] Celebrities Struck by curvy babes, … Read More »