Next time when you decide on a Bollywood flick, do not refer to just one or two reviews here and there. Drop in at ReviewGang and see all major reviews by all the stakeholders of Bollywood. Better still, contribute with your own reviews on movies as well for the general benefit of population. Both...
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Intinno – is a web 2.0 startup aspiring to bring social face to an Indian classroom with  Paathshaala – an LMS platform that brings administration, teachers & students together in a collaborative way. Paathshaala allows handling of  assignments, sharing of questions & answers among students, notifications between faculty & students through email &...
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Is there a correlation between age and success? Vivek asks this question at the startup forum - Of late (precisely past 10 months) I have come across many successful entrepreneurs across various industries and many of them were well backed by investors (not to say funding = success), one thing I found common among them was...
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Few days back we featured a question raised by a wannapreneur on whether to startup or not. Sushanth has shared some wonderful tips that I believe needs to broadcasted to the larger audience: ‘The 3 most important factors you need to consider
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Amit has posted an interesting question: I am a wannapreneur and have been working (moonlighting) on a start-up idea for last 9 months or so. I work as Director – Business Development for a mobile internet company in my day job. I’ve been thinking about quitting my job and doing this full-time but, i am...
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What is the favorite pastime of Indian blogosphere? Especially on weekends, when news inflow is relatively slow? I think it won’t be an overstatement if I say that on weekends, most of us write posts discussing potential of having a Microsoft/Google/Facebook from India. This is a national obsession. I see this being discussed on blogs...
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Startup Marketing: Does Money make a difference What a silly question is the first thought that comes to your mind. Maybe I can salvage myself by saying “Of course it does”. This post actually discusses the strateg y used by startups pre funding vs...
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For a startup, the most important thing is to find a pain-point. This pain-point refers to the real problems which people encounter in their daily life. Many a times, entrepreneurs mistake cool product or service for a...
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Online classifieds today provide a very easy, fast and free medium for sellers to reach out to customers. However while going classifieds way to advertise your products/ website or business it is important for startups to focus on classifieds which are search engine optimized to achieve...
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Roundup of interesting posts that made to pluGGd.in in the month of May. The two big announcements were Startup Disco and us opening the doors (and windows) for guest posts. Entrepreneurship Related: Difference Between Funded and UnFunded Startups: Resource Constraint (aka Creativity Seed) Startup Scene in India- Healthy, Wealthy or Noisy? Negative Questions Kills good products/ideas, and why...
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Recently, a Business Today article featured India’s Hottest Startups. The article lists startups from many different industries, from organic food to technology. Below are the following points I observed/calculated from the article: Average age of a...
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I spoke to few VCs after their interaction with startups@ Proto, and here are a couple of candid feedbacks/observations I heard from VCs: VCs are looking for complimentary skills in the startup team – it’s great to have hard core techies/geeks in the founding team, but startups should also realize that they...
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Marty Cagan is Managing Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group (SVPG), and has earlier worked with great companies like HP, Netscape, AOL and eBay. Marty started SVPG to help companies build great products (and also to institutionalize the Product Management function). He has been involved with several Silicon Valley companies like TiVo, ...
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