Innovative Entrepreneurs, who are they and what they do?
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Ok, so you want to innovate? Come up with a service or a product that dazzles and pushes the user off the seat, only to want him to get up again and use it again ? What does it take, to deliver such a product or service? There should be a meticulous way of evaluating...
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A must watch video – strongly recommended for entrepreneurs who live on a shoestring budget and blame resource constraint for innovation gap.
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Gmail Lab is the hub of incremental innovation and the newly launched module (rather, the improved version) of  Google search box makes Gmail a lot more productive and collaborative tool. Once you enable the module, you can search Google from your Gmail – the real fun begins once you fire a query. Gmail will open a...
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Today is Samuel Morse’s birthday! How do I know? Google tells me
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Tata’s EKA supercomputer (ranked 13th among world’s top supercomputers) has devised a ‘desi’ way of monetizing – by renting the supercomputer to enterprises. Tata Elxsi used Eka’s processing power to crunch the time required for rendering the animation movie, ‘Roadside Romeo.’ The activity, which would have taken the firm approximately 36-40 months to digitally render...
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McKinsey along with World Economic Forum has created an “Innovation Heat Map,” by identifying factors that are common to successful innovation hubs (business environment, government and regulation, human capital, infrastructure, and local demand etc). This is what the quadrants mean: Hot springs are small and fast-growing hub that relies on a small number of companies to...
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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 a sturdier frame and sprung, foam seats for up to three people. The fully-charged solar battery will
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OLPC, which was rejected by Indian government and later embraced by Reliance ADAG has launched localized keyboard laptops supporting Devanagari script. OLPC project is currently working in rural village at Khairat near Navi Mumbai where laptops have been deployed and every child carries one laptop home. Initially these kids felt that education was not really important...
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Students of RV College of Engineering Bangalore, in order to represent their college in international events like SAE Supermileage and the Shell Eco-Marathons have built a super fuel efficient car that gives a mileage of 200Km/Litre. Coined ‘Garuda RVCE supermileage car’, Key features of the car prototype include: HONDA GK 100 97 cc, 2 Hp air...
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IIT M and IISC have partnered to build the world’s cheapest laptop – that will be priced at $10! $100 (see below for details) For the $100 laptop, research is being carried at IIT M/IISC: The laptop, when produced, will prove to be a breakthrough device that could solve the problems of low computer literacy and...
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Apart from the obvious difference, i.e. the VC money, I see couple of very subtle difference between the funded and unfunded startups. As always, I am looking for more insights from the readers. Unfunded: Barcamp – Funded: TiE Unfunded Startups visit Barcamps, while the funded ones are a regular face @ TiE sort of events (read...
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Even after all these years of the so-called IT revolution, India is still struggling for a business/company that has created intellectual capital and has thus created a true enterprise with roots in research and development. I think its about time to take stock and figure out why. No one would dispute that India has all...
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