The Indian startup space is abuzz with talks about design and how a startup should focus more on design than anything else. And we’re not talking about how your site looks. Design is about how you structure your product, how it is laid out and the entire thinking process that goes behind making a world class proposition
Getting paid for watching advertisements may seem crazy but its for real! This oeuvre is the brainchild of three Mumbaikars who are also chartered accountants in the making. These commerce graduates – Akash Desai, Pratik Thakkar and Chirag Mehta – joined hands to start Pay-ad. Launched in May 2013, Pay-ad is an online video marketing startup that pays people for watching short, entertaining video advertisements.
A product of TNetwork Solutions, Mylooka is a social Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application meant for small to large companies. The intention is to connect employees and departments. Launched in January this year, MyLooka aims to simplify internal communication for businesses with a very heavy focus on mobile.
Nokia Siemens Networks’ MBit Index study reveals a 92% increase in mobile data traffic generated by both 2G and 3G services in India between December 2011 and December 2012. MBit Index study is based on Nokia Siemens Networks’ internal analysis of aggregated data from multiple sources in India.
Music festivals and concerts are not a new phenomenon in India, over the past decade or so these events have climbed up the pace. It has witnessed raft of innovation during the same, yet there are many areas which are still untouched and need improvement. Parth Saxena from TommyJams started working on eradicating the mess [...] Read More
One just can’t do justice to the phenomenonal way in which the Mexican wave unites, excites and invigorates spectators into producing such a visually stimulating spectacle! We have a lot to learn and apply to organizational behaviour from the Mexican wave. Think about the last time you were at a stadium and were part of a Mexican wave. Think of each aspect – from the typical lull before someone starts the wave, how others around the initiators pick up on it, how it travels through an entire crowd with remarkable coordination, how nice it looks when you see the wave travel and how it leaves such a large mass of people so invigorated. Is your startup doing this Mexican wave?
Geetha Narayanan started her career as a school teacher in 1971 and formed Ujwal Trust with 5 other women and INR 1000 in 1982, with which she a started the Mallya Aditi International School and later on in 1996 founded Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology. She dons the hat of the founder and director of [...] Read More
After raising two quick rounds of funding, one lead by ex Futurebazaar VP, Zeeshan Hayath and the other lead by ex Network 18 CEO, Haresh Chawla, Mumbai based property listing site, Housing.co.in has expanded its operation to three other cities – Gurgaon, Hyderabad and Pune. At the time of raising their second round, Advitiya Sharma, [...] Read More
Singapore’s second ‘walkabout’ happened on May 17, 2013, where over 100 startups opened their doors to welcome strangers for a beer, a chat, and peek into their charming shophouse offices. No emails, no ‘fixing up a meeting’, just walk about and walk into offices. And taking into consideration the fact that I am still trying to find my feet with the startup ‘scene’ in Singapore, this turned out to be the perfect day!
In the era of facebook and twitter, people often crib about real interactions waning down. LetsDine is a new startup in the ‘social networking’ space, that tries to address this issue and arranges themed dining events for different groups of bloggers, poets, foodies, entrepreneurs and random socials where absolute strangers come and meet, interact and [...] Read More
