If we all become a little more straightforward, show a little more honesty and humility, and focus on the solutions, we might yet create an ecosystem.
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SEO and SEM Strategy for Startups - SEO is the easiest way to get users to your door, but is very often the most neglected tools as well.
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8KMiles is a Bangalore based startup that is offering outsourcing service over the cloud (using Amazon EC2).
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HelpDeskPilot –Customer Support Tracking Service Makes Support Easy to Handle
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Manage money online using Onyem.
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Having spent a lot of my time with startups, entrepreneur teams, investors both in India and Silicon Valley. I thought to put together a comprehensive list of the key differences I noticed...
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Guess what? Department of Science and Technology (DST) , New Delhi has been running door-to-door, Startup to Startup to build a ‘representation’ of Technology Startups that would take on our collective needs and represent us to the government. And in their own words its almost like bringing up the “Looms and Textiles industries of Ludhiana”...
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– Read his earlier article: Why Wipro, Infosys and TCS are “Axis of Evil” for Indian startups!). This article talks about ABCDs ((American Born Confused Desis), their (lack of) understanding of Indian...
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[I have been thinking about the Indian startup ecosystem for quite sometime and the more I dig deeper into it, the more I realize the shallowness of the current state. The good news is that I am not the only one who feels ecosystem is broken. Here is a guest post from Sameer Shishodia, (ex...
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Looking for a carpenter? Plumber? Electrician? There is hardly any piece of information available about these services on the web. Local search players typically focus on commercial businesses and that’s where lies an opportunity to aggregate these daily-use service providers. GreenMango, Hyderabad based startup aggregates information of service providers (currently available for Hyd only) and enables...
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Indifax is a recently launched service that convert your mobile phone to a scanner/copier as well as fax machine (well almost!). Once you register (one needs to pay $10), you can transfer picture stored in your mobile phone to Indifax (need to email them, i.e. GPRS mandatory). The service will convert the picture in...
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Got something to rent? Be it your property, furniture, washing machine, refrigerators, computers, TV, laptops etc – Rentimental will help you find a good deal. Rentimental is broker free service that is present in Mumbai (primarily), Delhi, Ahmedabad and recently started their Bangalore operations. Brokers are charged subscription fee and Rentimental doesn’t charge them on...
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Travelyaari is a newly launched travel booking site (currently has data for Western India primarily) and before you ask – why another OTA, here is the big difference /claimed USP:? Unlike other OTAs, TravelYaari works on live inventory – not on quota booking. They work closely with operators, who use their platform to manage their...
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Myntra and Printo have partnered to tab the corporate and retail gifting/personalization market. The partnership allows Printo to offer customized design/gifting products from Myntra on their outlets. Myntra of course, get a wider distribution. ..the entire Myntra product catalogue will be available across all Printo outlets and Printo will make the catalogue as part of its...
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Simmortel Voice is a speech recognition engine that allows the user to access content and information by speaking into her phone. Their proprietary technology enables a very large vocabulary (up to 20,000 words), multiple Indian languages, robustness to variation in accents and all mobile handsets and landline phones. The IIT K based startup has...
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Hiraj is an online journal to track your babies’ growth, collect pictures and allows parents to record wonderful memories of their child’s days and share those moments with friends and family from around the world. The most useful feature in Hiraj is that one can track baby’s health record, i.e. height/weight etc and compared with...
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Microsoft launched BizSpark, a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources (like software, support etc) and Indian startups too can avail this program by following these simple
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MyBangalore is a city centric portal that focuses on news/events/lifestyle businesses in the city. The content heavy site lets you browse through several categories like arts/culture, lifestyle, education,news,classified etc. MyBangalore, though
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Numo is a newly launched service (started by Kesava, who was earlier with MyDuniya which has shutdown) that is building a SMS platform for enterprise to interact with customers. Numo’s platform enable enterprises
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Want to share feedbacks on brands (whether you hate them or love their services)? Got some feature requests/suggestions? That’s precisely BrandAdda does it for you – it’s a newly launched service that builds communities around brands. For instance, one can
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