Startup

When I saw this low-cost low-tech simple yet extremely useful Product design – I was quite amazed as to why have we not seen it as yet. It would have saved back aches of thousands, if not millions of people who carry / push load on daily…

Deals & Coupons sites have been creating buzz over past 12 to 18 months – Thanks to Groupon’s (rumoured) Billion Dollar valuation, there has been a sudden surge in deals, discounts & group buying sites across the web. In last 2…

Ok, so we are now we are an 840 mn strong mobile phone market. What next? How do we use the fact that there is at least some sort of a communication device with the majority of the population? I think of this as a hub and spoke system. 840+…

Entrepreneurs are many, but social entrepreneurs are quite rare. Who wants to take the risk of investing monies that are not only expected to yield profits, but also advance a social cause? Entrepreneurs have enough tensions of their own.…

Imagine, if you can use your Smartphone to get your eyes tested within less than 30 seconds. That’s exactly the innovation created by researchers (led by Dr. Ramesh Raskar) at MIT Labs. EyeNetra is a very small, cheap device (that costs…

Running your startup on a shoe-string budget, especially in its early days, is not easy – Very few succeed in it. If you are an entrepreneur, you may already have come across hundreds of articles telling you on how to successfully bootstrap…

Bidding adieu to IT services... I started Uconomix in 2005. The intention was to build a company. A large company over a period of time. It’s been six years and I have seen lots of ups and downs. I started the company from a spare room…

This was a startling news for me – India being one of the friendliest countries for Entrepreneurs and having some of the best cultures in the world for people to start a new business. We have written numerous articles on this blog earlier,…

Designing a new product based on certain standards and launching it successfully are altogether two different aspects to be taken care of in a new product offering. This is where most of the new products, especially engineering products,…

Around 2006, when I was working for naukri.com, they came out with a revolutionary recruitment product called “Insta-hire”. This product extended online recruiting with cell phones and was an instant hit. I loved this product because it…

OMG! Is the purity of English language getting diluted thanks to the seeping internet terminologies? Well, there certainly is a school of thought where purists view the inclusion of the slang internet interjections in the linguistic…

In today’s world, the most important thing on everyone’s mind is data. Whether it is collection of data, aggregation of data or sharing of data, everyone is running behind this buzzword. But, why is data so important? Whether it is…

It was christened as dawn of a new era aided by superior technology and engineering efforts. Ratan Tata surprised the automotive industry in 2009 when he introduced the Tata Nano, the 1 Lakh Rupee Car, in front of the world. It was an epic…

Marketing is one of most treacherous of all the business disciplines I know. Check out 5 of the most dangerous marketing blunders businessmen and entrepreneurs make: Blunder 1 – Believing that ‘Advertising is marketing’! In the year…

How many TV channels do you watch on an average? 10?... 15?... 20?... 25?... Certainly not more than that, for sure. So, do we still have any scope for new television channel launches in India? Yes, of course! Over the last few years,…

Mobile companies from Nokia to LG have designed India centric phones with features such as very good battery life, torch facility, protection from scratches and dust etc. The number of mobile subscribers has risen to more than 730 million…

Its been close to a year since Apple’s fastest moving gadget – The iPad – came in the US Markets. And, now Indian consumers will be able to lay their hands on the coveted device. According to the news which appeared in Telegraph yesterday,…

They were produced to decrease the operational and distribution costs. Production in bulk costs lesser than sourcing expensive brands from various countries and stocking them in the store. While expensive and famous labels are meant to be…

Recently I was reading an article regarding individuals who went to study in US years ago finally returning to India to transform the startup ecosystem in this country. I couldn’t help but smile and wonder at the number of such articles I…

Money-making has become a tough proposition in this highly-competitive world – where keeping competitors at bay on a constant basis is always a challenging task. Under such circumstances, it would be dreams come true if you’ve an…