January 9th, 2010
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Yesterday, I gave a talk at the NASSCOM Emerge Friday 2.0 event about how the time is ripe for Indian startups to target the global market: ‘Made in India, Made for the World‘.
So far, Indian startups have focused on tweaks for the local market, not inventions or tweaks for the global market, partly because Indian VCs have tended to fund me-too startups with a business model focused on enabling transactions for the local market (book a air/ rail/ bus/ movie ticket).
However, in the last one or two years, several Indian startups have dared to build products for the global market. On my list are enterprise collaboration players Zoho, Deskaway, Uhuroo, Remindo, Cyn.in and YouSuggest, consumer focused web 2.0 startups like LifeBlob, AuthorStream, GizaPage (and the now dead Fachak and Kwippy), widget company Tell-a-Friend/ SocialTwist, flash-maker Toufee and online tutoring company TutorVista. Do let me know if I have missed out startups that should be on this list. With a little luck, several of these startups can become global players, and some already have. Read More
January 9th, 2010 |
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| Tagged with Android App Marketplace, API, Application Ecosystems, AuthorStream, Cyn.in, Deskaway, Digital Inspiration, Enterprise Collaboration, Facebook API, Facebook Connect, Fachak, Friday 2.0, GetSatisfaction, GizaPage, Global Market, Indian, iPhone App Marketplace, Kwippy, LifeBlob, MediaNama, NASSCOM Emerge, Nokia Ovi App Store, One Forty, OpenSocial API, Pluggd.in, Remindo, Skype, Social Media, SocialTwist, Speaking, Startups, Techmeme, Tell-a-Friend, Toufee, TutorVista, Tweetmeme, Twitter API, Uhuroo, WATBlog, Web 2.0, YouSuggest, Zoho |
January 2nd, 2009
Gabe Riviera at Techmeme puts together a list of the 50 biggest stories of 2008 and it’s all about Google, Yahoo. Microsoft, Facebook and Apple.
I didn’t blog about even one of these stories, and, in retrospect, I would have blogged about only one story: Google indexing its one trillionth URL.
I’m not saying that these aren’t important stories, just that they are too mainstream to be of interest to me. I want a Techmeme for stories about how social media and mobile are changing media, business, government and development. Does anybody know where to look?
January 2nd, 2009 |
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| Tagged with Apple, Business, Default, Development, Facebook, Google, Government, Media, Mobile, Social Media, Techmeme, Yahoo. Microsoft |
April 21st, 2007
Alexa’s lawsuit on Alexaholic/ Statsaholic is generating a lot of negative buzz about both companies.
Tim O’Reilly – who was at the center of the blogger code of conduct controversy recently – puts the issue in perspective –
In short, I ended up with a lot more sympathy for Amazon’s position than I expected to. If someone decided that they could make a nice business by re-using the content from O’Reilly books in a new, more accessible form, I’d probably be miffed too.
Also See: TechCrunch. O’Reilly Radar.
April 21st, 2007 |
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| Tagged with Alexa, Alexaholic, API, Asides, Controversy, Default, Stats, Statsaholic, Techmeme, Tim-OReilly, Wannabe-Web-Millionaire |
