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Insights on the Youth Consumer and Mobile Advertising in India

by Paul Joseph May 5, 2011 Featured

[This is a guest post contributed by Aniketh dsouza, who curated the conversation that happened at the recently concluded Mobile Marketing Association/MMAF2011 event in Singapore] The post is a result of talk by Antti Ohrling ( @Ohrling ), Co-founder, BLYK who has a tie up with Aircel in India. 1.6 billion youth worldwide use a mobile phone and from next year 1 of 5 mobile phone users in the, will be in India

Tagged as: advice, facebook, india, malaysia, singapore, sms, study, the-youth, youth

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How to Read, Assess and Judge Software Development Quotations from IT vendors?

by Paul Joseph April 11, 2011 Featured

[Editorial Notes: How do I hire an IT vendor? This is a very frequent question, a lot of non-geeky entrepreneurs often ask and here is an article which details out the necessary details you should expect from an IT vendor] If you are a client hiring a vendor IT team for software development, then it is very essential to get a detailed proposal or quotation from the vendor for the proposed application.

Tagged as: advice, browser, client, database, design, entrepreneurship, logic, money, opera, opinion, project, proposal, technologies, vendor, work

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VC Turned Entrepreneur: 3 Lessons Learned

by Paul Joseph February 1, 2011 Featured

Before joining the entrepreneur scene, I was a VC at Canaan Partners where my primary job was diligence-ing new deals.  It was great practice for running my own startup, SkillSlate , a website that allows people to find & hire independent service professionals.  However, I’ve learned that no amount of VC experience can fully prepare someone to be an entrepreneur.  Below are the top three lessons that I learned since joining the startup world: Hire the Best People You Can Find, Regardless of Where they Live.

Tagged as: advice, business, customers, product, time

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Sakshat Tablet, the $35 Tablet From India to be a Reality Soon

by Paul Joseph January 11, 2011 Featured

Sakshat Tablet, the brand name for the famous $35 Laptop will be launched very soon (Jan 10th was the scheduled date) for a price of Rs, 1,500/.  The tablet will be launched by HCL Systems and has been tested at IIT Rajasthan. Aside, it’s important to note that the $35 tablet from Indian government comes at a discounted price (just like PDS) for Indian Colleges/Universities and the retail cost (if at all the tablet is made available) will be much more – so maybe, we should stop calling it a $35 tablet (and that’s why the brand, Sakshat)

Tagged as: advice, mobile, retail

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Entrepreneurs are Just Entrepreneurs – Not Pirates or Jedis

by Paul Joseph December 17, 2010 Featured

Somtime back I read a really nice article Yoda visits Rodinhood and it had very good advice to entrepreneurs. Other than the advice what stuck me was the way now-a-days bloggers were comparing entrepreneurs to a lot of things. First it was Mike Arrington comparing entrepreneurs to pirates and now Rodinhood comparing them to Jedis.

Tagged as: advice, city, entrepreneurship, money, work

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes In Many Flavors

by Paul Joseph October 21, 2010 Featured

At today’s roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I am always fascinated by how innovative entrepreneurs get when faced with resource crunches.   First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue , a mobile and social gaming company that makes the iPhone and Android game Parallel Kingdom that has been in the market for a couple of years.

Tagged as: advice, business, game, india, movie

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes In Many Flavors

by Paul Joseph October 21, 2010 Featured

At today’s roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I am always fascinated by how innovative entrepreneurs get when faced with resource crunches.   First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue , a mobile and social gaming company that makes the iPhone and Android game Parallel Kingdom that has been in the market for a couple of years

Tagged as: advice, entrepreneur, featured, india, iphone, movie, social, work

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable: Bootstrapping Comes In Many Flavors

by Paul Joseph October 21, 2010 Featured

At today’s roundtable, we had some very interesting discussions on creative bootstrapping. I am always fascinated by how innovative entrepreneurs get when faced with resource crunches.   First up today was Justin Beck with PerBlue , a mobile and social gaming company that makes the iPhone and Android game Parallel Kingdom that has been in the market for a couple of years. PerBlue develops and markets its own game, and today, is at about a $35-40k per month run rate from 200,000 users.   Justin is looking for a more efficient customer acquisition model, and my suggestion to him was to look into using distributors, instead of trying to do all the development and then also all the distribution himself.

Tagged as: advice, development, iphone, opinion

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Recap–Twitter’s Traffic in India, Indian Rupee Symbol added to Unicode [and more]

by Paul Joseph October 18, 2010 Featured

Register for UnPluGGd, the most amazing startup event in India (Oct 30th/Bangalore). Limited seats Available. – Registration Link UnPluggd is only 2 weeks away and there is quite an excitement in the air! Last week, we conducted a twitter contest and the response was super overwhelming! (will announce the Day 3 winner today).

Tagged as: advice, facebook, friends, school, windows

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HCL Technologies Gets the Contract for $35 Tablet [1 Million Units by Jan '11]

by Paul Joseph September 3, 2010 Featured

HCL Technologies has bagged the contract for $35 Tablet for 100,000 devices (Watch the review of $35 Tablet) . The device will be tested by IIT Rajasthan and the government has allocated Rs.

Tagged as: advice, country, education, government, indian, project, technology

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