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Founders: How Can You Make Your Company Human?

by Paul Joseph May 17, 2011 Featured

[Editorial Notes: This article is 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?

Tagged as: article, careers, conversation, customer, insights, management, parties, person, sales

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Is Cash on Delivery THE catalyst for E-tailing in India?

by Paul Joseph May 16, 2011 Featured

[Editorial Notes: This article published under series called “ Bring Your Own Insights ”, where we bring selected guests (invite-only) to share their insights with Pluggd.in audience on a regular basis.

Tagged as: article, collaborative, editorial-notes, guest-insights, india, indian, insights, internet, online, opinion, sales

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A Look At Unique Characteristics Of Group Buying Sites [Why Is It Different?]

by Paul Joseph May 14, 2011 Featured

What makes Group Buying Business a unique business? Deals or discount coupons have been in existence for quite some time but the concept got phenomenal success when companies like Groupon married social with deals. The combination of social and deals is relatively new and has many unique qualities.

Tagged as: additional, business, business-model, even-if-someone, facebook, facebook-even, friends, fundamentals, group, group buying, india, sales, social networking, switching-cost, thoughts

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What tennis has taught me about startups, and why you should play a sport if you are an entrepreneur

by Paul Joseph May 10, 2011 Featured

[As part of Bring Your Own Insights series , we invite Pluggd.in readers to share their insights with the audience. This is a by-invite section and you will get to see insightful posts from our these selected guests. After Sanket, we have Mukund Mohan sharing his insights with Pluggd.in readers.

Tagged as: discipline, entrepreneurship, game, insights, internet, sales, silicon-valley, sports, startup, ultimate-sports, work

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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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Early Stage Startups– “Take It Personally”, Will You?

by Paul Joseph April 7, 2011 Featured

You know the big difference between large organizations and startups? Rather why large organizations fail to ‘be like’ startups? While there are a whole lot of bureaucratic challenges, lack of accountability tops the chart

Tagged as: aol, employees-start, entrepreneurship, healthy-fashion, opinion, sales, situation, team, think-yahoo, tops-the-chart, yahoo

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The Best Ever Advice On Building A Sales & Marketing Machine

by Paul Joseph April 7, 2011 Featured

Sales & Marketing is quite a b*tch and most of the (geeky)startups actually face hurdles in cracking this piece.

Tagged as: because-geeks, david-skok, entire, entrepreneurship, face-hurdles, funnel, marketing, piece, sales, sales-funnel

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VideoPulp Appliance–The Video Search Meets SAAS Business

by Paul Joseph March 24, 2011 Featured

Videos will account for 90 percent of network traffic by 2013 and even now, searching for text inside video hasn’t been perfected. Most importantly, a lot of videos have slides in them (like UnPlugd videos ) and it’s really difficult to search for text/slides inside the videos

Tagged as: data, enterprise, from-the-videos, india, indian-startups, keen-on-solving, market-segments, network-traffic, opinion, sales, topics, video, videopulp, videos

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Is Your Growth Limited By Resource Constraints OR Lack Of Focus? [Case Study]

by Paul Joseph February 23, 2011 Featured

Before I ask you this question, let me share a story of a tea shop near to Pi office. – I frequent this tea shop almost 7-8 times a day and a peculiar thing about this tea shop is that even though its located in a noisy area, the nearby surroundings (30 m radius)of the shop is quite peaceful (as it’s a bit secluded). And even though the shop has a good space for itself, the owner hardly uses 15% of it for products.

Tagged as: business, entrepreneurship, family, government, nokia, opinion, sales

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