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Where do Indian Start-ups stand in high flying 50 Tech Start-ups of the world?

by Arun Prabhudesai on June 19, 2009 |

It was interesting to read the list of 50 Tech Start-ups in the world that you should watch out for released jointly by BW and YouNoodle. According to Business Week these are 50 Tech Start-ups flying under the radar. The list includes fledgling tech companies—most started in 2005 and later—from the U.S., China, India, Israel, [...]

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Library at your doorstep : Librarywala

by Sriram Vadlamani
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We have recently covered Pustak which is a book buying site for book lovers targeted at International editions. Now, the startup we are going to cover makes it easier than Pustak for your wallet. Librarywala is a online lending library. You can search and rent the books online. The books will be delivered to your doorstep. Librarywala is to books what Moviemart is to movies.

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How does it work? It works like any other online rental service. You register, pick your books and they will be delivered to your doorstep. You can queue them up if the book is in circulation. You can keep a maximum of 2 or 3 books at a time. The total number of books per month varies from 3 to 12 depending upon your plan.

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Hottest Indian Startups : Tukka.in — I am feeling lucky

by Sriram Vadlamani

Tukka.in is a strange name for a website. The website is strange too. It does not have any text on the home page. What we see is bunch of circles, rectangles and other irregular shapes thrown at you in a regular fashion.  Most of them are triangles though. Each shape is differentiated by a color [...]

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Hottest Indian Startups : Slmbk – Indian facebook?

by Sriram Vadlamani
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How do you like a Indian facebook? That is what 20 year old Kashyap Gada is after. He wanted a Indian version of the social networking site. Truly Indian. He came up with Slmbk (read slam book). The company made it to the top 40 of the possible 588 nominations in the Tata NEN …

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Hottest Indian Startups : Easytolet.in – Go green with your re-location

by Sriram Vadlamani

How much carbon footprint do you leave when you are shifting? My guess is none of us has thought about it. Well there is someone who thought about it. The folks at Easytolet.in have thought about it and built a business around it. Their solution is simple. Make it online. I am yet to find [...]

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Hottest Indian Startups review : Trackcut – Social networking meets mobile

by Sriram Vadlamani
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Year 2005 was the year of social networking and bookmarking websites. I am not sure how many have cropped up since then but the most popular ones were Digg, facebook, orkut, myspace. Since then many applications were launched and the market is already saturated. Since this idea is taken what would be the next big [...]

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Hottest Indian Startups Review : Nearhop.com

by Sriram Vadlamani
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You have to travel to a town, which is not connected, by train or a flight. Only way to reach your destination is by bus. That would be a break journey and you have to hop onto a bus after you are done with a train or a flight journey. How do you find and [...]

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Hottest Indian Startups Review: Pennywise Solutions

by Sriram Vadlamani
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pennywise-logoPennywise Solutions is a SME (Small or medium enterprise) providing solutions for SME’s. There are a lot of IT companies in this space and Pennywise’s cost effective solutions along with the technical expertise is the key differentiator. It is enjoying a ranking of 10 in the Tata NEN startup hunt. Pennywise follows the traditional offshore outsourcing model.

Pennywise is a startup which is spread across all the popular web technologies like .net, java, open source LAMP, search engine optimitization etc.. Their verticals are also pretty wide starting from education, entertainment, and financial services to transportation and digital media. It is almost a one-stop shop for all the IT needs of a SME. Dun & Bradstreet in association with Fullerton has recognized Pennywise as the best small company in the IT & ITes sector.

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Hottest Indian Startups Review: PagalGuy.com

by Sriram Vadlamani
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jet_airways_logoWith the most prestigious management exam, CAT just around the corner, I thought it would only be appropriate to review this startup now. I came to know about this website (read startup) when I was preparing for CAT in 2006. I am not trying to be hip here, I have never written the exam and my hall ticket is placed in the memorabilia. I am referring to pagalguy.com, which is followed by most of the MBA aspirants.

Pagalguy is almost a one-stop shop not just for CAT, but MBA in general. Its discussion board is of tremendous value to any aspiring management student. If we have to go by statistics, It has over 2 lakh registered users and have 1 million articles on its website. Most important of all, 50% of the registered users are either alumni or students of top Bshools. PagalGuy also features interviews from famous personalities. The recent interview is of Vivek Bhandiri, IRMA director.

PagalGuy can also help you choose the right school. Domestic or International you can go through the discussion boards and follow it up to make a choice. If you haven’t done very well on CAT, then don’t be disappointed because there are a lot of other schools which have their own exams and for which you can get familiar with and prepare by following pagalguy.

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Hottest Indian Startups Review: Edujini Labs

by Sriram Vadlamani
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jet_airways_logoStarted as an incubator project at IIT Mumbai in 2005, Edujini specializes in corporate training and product development. With an established client base and assured revenues Edujini labs is currently enjoying a healthy lead at number 3. Edujini current revenue generator is corporate training. They train the corporate world in various soft skills like management skills, team building skills, organizational skill, business writing and personality development to name a few.

Unlike other startups in the fray Edujini is already generating revenues in the corporate training sector. It is diverting their revenues generated from corporate training to product development. Their eLearning product Aksh that focuses on competency management and assessment is released and already has one prospective client. As per Edujini this product is the key differentiator, which bridges a lot of gaps in the existing products. This product is not generating any revenues yet.

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Hottest Indian Startups review – MovieMart

by Sriram Vadlamani
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“Get the DVD at your doorstep the same day”

movieMart Logo The DVD rental market in India is expected to touch 2100 crore by 2010. DVD sales market in India is expected to touch 2000 crore by 2010. Current market is at 800 crore. With 15000+ DVD titles MovieMart, India’s first online rental company is planning to take 30% of the DVD rental pie. It is also planning to add 1 million subscribers in the next 5 years.

Started in 2006, Rahul Mansharmani co-founder of MovieMart has seen his subscriber base swelling to 10000 in Delhi alone. Buoyed by the great response in Delhi, Rahul expanded aggressively to all over India with the help of TNT logistics. MovieMart now spans across 300 cities and towns in India.

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Hottest Indian Startups Review – The Loot

by Sriram Vadlamani
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Starting today we will be featuring reviews of most voted Indian startups that have been nominated at hotteststartups – The startup awards for innovative and successful businesses in India – jointly organized by Tata and NEN. Currently at the top position is – The Loot – an offline startup (if you can call it so) [...]

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