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CSITM Participatory Research Workshop, 2011

by Paul Joseph May 23, 2011 Featured

Theme: Indian Software Industry – Moving up the Value Chain and Managing Non-Linear Growth Venue: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Workshop Date: May 28, 2011 The Centre for Software and Information Technology Management (CSITM) at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) invites you to a participatory workshop with industry practitioners and academicians on managing

Tagged as: bangalore, bangalore-workshop, centre, csitm, growth, iimb workshop, indian, indian-institute, industry, management, managing, moving, startup-events, value-chain, workshop

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News Roundup: 9 million 3G users in India

by Paul Joseph May 20, 2011 Featured

Tagged as: bluetooth, cards, government, home-audio, india, india business, industry, internet, iphone, mobile, wireless

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News Roundup: 9 million 3G users in India, Payment Gateway from RIL?

by Paul Joseph May 20, 2011 Featured

Tagged as: government, home-audio, india, india business, industry, iphone, mobile, payment-gateway, space

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Startup TaxiGuide Wants To Be The RedBus Of Car Rental Booking Service

by Paul Joseph May 12, 2011 Featured

We recently interviewed Olacabs, a Mumbai based online car rental service and here is another interesting Bangalore based startup, TaxiGuide.in that offers online car rental service  across 75 cities. The Business Model of TaxiGuide TaxiGuide’s business model consists of tying up with reputed and experienced car rental operators across cities who carry a range of vehicles and charging a commission from these operators for every confirmed customer booking forwarded to them

Tagged as: answer-building, business, business-model, consulting, country, director, fragmented, india, indian-startups, industry, marketing, school

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Best of the Week–ccavenue Hacked, Nokia’s 500 Million Phones in India

by Paul Joseph May 9, 2011 Featured

Best of the Week Payment Gateway CCAvenue Hacked [Updated/Open Questions] Report: State of Internet Connectivity in India [Decline in Average Connection Speed] 25% Failure Rate For IRCTC Transactions [March 2011 Report] Mobile Banking: Transaction Limit For Mobile Wallet Card Increased to INR 50K Available: $100,000 Worth of Funding For Indian Startups in Mobile and Cloud Computing Space Micromax Bling 2 Details Unveiled – Runs on Froyo Startups/Entrepreneurship Insights on the Youth Consumer and Mobile Advertising in India Deal Aggregator, dealmandi Hits Your Mobile With An Android App What Pasta can teach Entrepreneurs [Be your own Chef] Startups: 16 Super Practical Tips To Crack Tradeshows Analyze Your Paypal Transactions With Putler Startups: Good Looks Are More Than Just Eye Candy [Is Usability Overhyped?] Can I Get The Menu Please? – Of Product Communication And Lost Customers Big Fish, Small Fish : Daily Deal Startups Deserve A Pat In the Back For Creating A Category Matrix Partners India Closes $300 Million Fund II Latest from Internet/ Mobile Industry 4Cs of mobile marketing: currency (value), conversation, community and content [Mobile Insights] Nokia Will Soon Sell Its 500 Millionth Phone in India, up for bidding [Current Price More Than Rs. 2L] And Now, You Can Also Kill Osama [Internet Game]! Report on Mobile app Stores: Number of Paid Apps on Android is 1/3rd of iPhone App Store Fear of Location Based Services & Tracking [Mobile User Privacy] Samsung Apps gets Operator Billing in India And Now, Times Internet Also Does the Obvious – Launches A Deal Site Gadgets Micromax Bling 2 Details Unveiled – Runs on Froyo Micromax Launches 3G Wireless MiFi Router Priced at Rs.

Tagged as: banking, facebook, gadgets, india, industry, mobile, operator, recap, space, tracking, usability

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Startups: 16 Super Practical Tips To Crack Tradeshows

by Paul Joseph May 4, 2011 Featured

[Article published under series called “ Bring Your Own Insights ”, where we bring selected guests to share their insights with Pluggd.in audience on a regular basis. We have always believed that our readers are amazingly insightful, so why not enable a channel for them to share their insights/experience with the audience? These guests will be from different industries and will share their insights on a very frequent basis.

Tagged as: business, contracts, culture, entrepreneurship, furniture, graphics, industry, internet, literature, metrics, opinion, party, press, sales

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Big Fish, Small Fish : Daily Deal Startups Deserve A Pat In the Back For the Momentum They Have Created

by Paul Joseph May 2, 2011 Featured

India is very different from Silicon Valley, especially when it comes to small players turning the tables on bigger ones (a story of Mint competing with Intuit can happen in Silicon Valley, but India will take its own sweet time). While there are industries like Enterprise software where Industry veteran-run-startups have managed to create a global play, digital consumer industry has mostly been dominated by big companies leaving very little for new players to create differentiation

Tagged as: enterprise, entrepreneurship, india, indian, indian-internet, industry, online, opinion, sales, second-or-third, silicon-valley, snapdeal-story, space

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MobileCamp-Mumbai Saturday 14th May 2011

by Paul Joseph April 30, 2011 Featured

MobileCamp is a un-conference for mobile applications, developers and enthusiasts. Celebrating the success of the developers, platform providers and the thousands of enablers in this industry, MobileCamp is your chance to showcase your applications, ideas and concepts. How about giving demo of your mobile app if any

Tagged as: applications, chance, developers, elebrating-the-success, industry, mobile, mobilecamp, mumbai mobile camp, platform-providers, success, the-developers, the-success, thousands, your-chance

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Best Of The Week –Apple iPad2 in India (?)

by Paul Joseph April 9, 2011 Featured

Pluggd.in’s super charged contest, PowerPlug is ON for the month of April and if you are a startup that believes you have what it takes to be the PowerPlug, do apply . Here is the weekly recap (for week ending April 10th, 2011) Top Articles Early Stage Startups– “Take It Personally”, Will You? Of Customer Relationship, DNA of Entrepreneurship and The Industry From Local Deals To Selling Products – Group Buying Pivoting Already

Tagged as: business, chairman, customer, handmade, industry, innovation, manpower, marketing, online, recap, research, startup, technology

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Of Customer Relationship, DNA of Entrepreneurship and The Industry

by Paul Joseph April 5, 2011 Featured

I love the food in Delhi. I mean, this is such an oblique reference to the title of the post, but I really love the food in Delhi

Tagged as: business, country, culture, customer, food, friends, friends-colony, industry, mimic-the-grass, nature, process, seller

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