The wave of social business will be larger and even more disruptive than the e-business wave that preceded it. It is more than Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. It is also more than the enabling technologies – wikis, blogs, social networks, etc. Social media is really about engaging communities in new ways to achieve otherwise impossible [...] Read More
This is a guest column by Amrutash Misra, the co-founder at Life Online which runs The i love read.in’ Library. Before that, he worked at Hindustan Unilever. And before that, he was a student at IIT Madras. For Amrut, the glass is never half empty. It’s always half full. In a previous avatar, I happened [...] Read More
YourStory.in, in conversation with Girish Dhakephalkar, founder of Shoonya 3D, and developers of Krishna 3D, an iPhone app that takes the user through a virtual experience in the temple of Lord Krishna. Krishna 3D was one of the Top 10 Indian Apps at TechSparks 2011 App4India. Edited Excerpts: Girish, tell us about Shoonya 3D’s iPhone [...] Read More
Recap of the 29 September 2011 roundtable by Sramana Mitra During this week’s roundtable, once again, we had an international group of entrepreneurs presenting fromBuenos Aires,Argentina;Warsaw,Poland;Geneva,Switzerland;Sherbrooke,Canada;Oakland,California; andAustin,Texas. In addition, we had attendees from many other parts of the world. Let’s dive in and see what they each are working on. Rockify First up, Joel Korpi [...] Read More
By Brij Bhasin Every startup exists because there is a gap in the market, there is an inherent need that an entrepreneur envisions, and then builds a business around it. Central to this concept are customers/consumers/users, and finding them is important. But, “truly” understanding them and their problems is paramount to the success of a [...] Read More
When I first told some of my friends in the social sector that I am focusing on Execution Excellence they got a little concerned with the word ‘Execution’. To them the only ‘execution’ was what was being discussed in the context of those walking the green mile (death row)! Then on, I changed my parlance [...] Read More
Dear Fashion and You, It was a bright sunny day on Aug 12, 2011 when I decided to use your “popular Ecommerce portal”. Little did I know what I was getting myself into. Full of attractive pictures and “seemingly deep discounts”, let me accept that I was impressed. Excited by your flash sales running that [...] Read More
With the slew of new releases, launches and updates coming from Google recently, they have come up with a new magic trick for the webmasters and content publishers to spruce up things in ‘Real-Time’ with Google Analytics. Today, Google announced through their blog post about the new feature for Google Analytics – “We’re very excited [...] Read More
New Delhi, September 29, 2011 Helion Advisors, one of the largest early stage venture funds in the country, today announced an investment of US$ 3.5 million in Vienova Education, an affordable private education provider based in Delhi, India. This follows the first round of funding by Indian Angel Network (IAN) and others in 2008. With [...] Read More
So, said the reporter, “Excuse me… What’s your opinion on the meat shortage?” to a nearby standing clique which had an American, a Russian, a Chinese and an Israeli. Now, the ability to perceive the reporter’s question was preceded with the idioms and metaphors of the culture and economic context of the individuals who were [...] Read More
