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Orkut Turns 7 – A Look at [Falling] Traffic

by Paul Joseph January 25, 2011 Featured

Orkut has turned 7 years today and while the social network enjoyed quite a bit of love from emerging markets in the early days, things do not seem to move in Google’s favor after Facebook assault. The month of August 2010 was when Facebook, for the first time went past Orkut  and the gap has widened since then

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An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Loss, Provident Fund and Lessons Learnt

by Paul Joseph January 24, 2011 Featured

I recently met a senior executive with a MNC who was contemplating leaving to either start his own company or join a startup.

Tagged as: angel, business, entrepreneurship, friends, india, permanent-link, personal

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[Overheard] Google Launching Checkout in India [In Partnership with TimesofMoney]

by Paul Joseph January 24, 2011 Featured

It seems Google is launching Checkout in India, in partnership with TimesofMoney. Google earlier partnered with TimesofMoney for adwords payment and though Checkout has been launched in several other countries (apart from US/UK), India is still not in the list of countries where sellers can sell using the Checkout service. Google Checkout is an alternative checkout flow you can use to process sales

Tagged as: india, india online, indian, payment, permanent-link, review

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Browser War – Google Takes Print Advertising Route to Promote Chrome in India

by Paul Joseph September 29, 2010 Featured

Google has gone the offline route to promote Chrome in India. The company has put up full page advertising on both Times of India and Economic Times newspapers

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Announcing UnPluggd Second Edition! [Oktoberfest]

by Paul Joseph September 7, 2010 Featured

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am glad to announce the second edition of UnPluggd, an event meant for entrepreneurs. The first edition was phenomenally successful and it was the first ever startup event in India where more than 300 people ordered the event DVD content (we actually stopped selling, as it was getting too operational intensive for us)! It speaks of the content quality and we promise to up the bar this time as well.

Tagged as: entrepreneurs, event, game, india, permanent-link, small-business, time

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Feature, Product, Business or Company–What are you Building?

by Paul Joseph September 6, 2010 Featured

[Guest article by Sanjay Anandaram, entrepreneur-turned-investor. Sanjay shares one of the most important aspect of a startup and raises an important question about what a company is building.

Tagged as: customer, design, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, family, india, management, marketing, permanent-link, product, user

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“Tourist VCs Go Home”–Stats from VC Industry

by Paul Joseph September 4, 2010 Featured

VCs invest in businesses that have the potential to go big and at the same time, given them a handsome RoI within a few years (maybe a short cycle?). VCs judgment (of understanding a business, from a typical MBAish perspective) has been questioned umpteen number of times and here are a few stark realities from the VC investments (happened in US, 2001-2009 period) that speaks of the model: # of VC-backed companies started: 24,100 # of VC-backed companies with exits over $100m: 750 (3%) # of VC firms: ~850 [ source ] In short, the number of significant exits are lesser than the number of VC firms! ‘Tourist VCs’ – that’s the term used to describe VCs who are in for a quick run (without strong fundamental) and mostly bring a bad name to the ecosystem.

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The A E I O U of Software Marketing [Vowel Guide]

by Paul Joseph September 3, 2010 Featured

[Guest article by Lakshmanan Narayan, founder of Eyes And Feet ] Marketing a software product involves ‘talking to’ various audiences.

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Is e-commerce happening in India? [Perspective]

by Paul Joseph September 3, 2010 Featured

[Guest article by Srini Battula, CoFounder of PlayGroundOnline , an ecommerce startup in sports category. Srini shares his experience of running PGO. ] With MakeMytrip’s IPO success recently, suddenly there seems to be lot of momentum and interest from everyone (including VCs) in this area

Tagged as: business, india business, india online, indian, mind, opinion, permanent-link, technology

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Tech WWWorld–iPod Touch, iTunes and Apple

by Paul Joseph September 2, 2010 Featured

Alright.

Tagged as: apple, permanent-link, social, social networking, technology

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