money minting
Goli Vada Pav: From a desi vada pav outlet to a fast-food chain
By Poonam Singhal at 9 August, 2010, 5:04 pm
Goli Vada Pav is a vada-pav chain, very famous and prominent in Maharashtra. While vada-pav is something that every Mumbaikar is fond of and can find it anywhere, in every street, what is special about Goli Vada Pav is that it is made at a fully automated HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points) certified hands-free [...]
Read More >>Dhoni signs 200 crore endorsements deal – surpasses Tendulkar as the highest paid cricketer
By Manoj Govindassamy at 14 July, 2010, 10:14 am
Now, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has emerged as the highest paid cricketer in the world with his recent endorsements deal for Rs. 200 crore with Rhiti Sports Management and Mindscapes One. …May be Dhoni cannot surpass Tendulkar’s fame and cricket records but he is definitely going to mint more gold in his cricket life time and he has already surpassed cricket GOD’s endorsement records…
Read More >>Zapak games now in Facebook – From online casual gaming to social gaming!
By Manoj Govindassamy at 28 June, 2010, 2:39 pm
This is the very marketing strategy followed by other hefty social gaming companies like Zynga, Playdom, etc., Whats important is NOT just getting the games to be played on facebook platform but to monetize them….Social games monetize through in-game sale of virtual goods and level upgrades, and zapak games are yet to get those “social” and “virtual goods” features – without which, there is no real use of getting games to be played on socail networks…
Read More >>Krishna Leela Theme Park – money minting tantra from ISKCON – India Religious Tourism 2.0
By Manoj Govindassamy at 24 June, 2010, 1:54 pm
Iskcon Krishna Leela Theme Park is going to be an important tourism destination in the country ..this is connected to religion and fun, it will attract people of all ages. And, Iskcon is at the right spot at the right time to mint money….I had tens of whys and whats on hearing this business project from religious movement like Iskcon. At least, the below slides helped me with answers from Iskcon …
Read More >>Kings XI Punjab IPL Franchise changing hands – British PE ISIS Equity buying in – IPL team valuations dropping!
By Manoj Govindassamy at 20 June, 2010, 2:10 pm
Most interesting part is the valuation at which the franchise equity is sold for and who is buying it. 93% stake is reportedly put to sale for $250 million and the buying hands are from British PE firm ‘ISIS equity’. … When two new IPL teams – Pune IPL team and the highly controversial Kochi IPL team were bid for $370 million and $333 million, how an existing IPL team could get sold for less valuations ? ..
Read More >>Reliance Comm, Tata, Vodafone – big losers of Wireless Broadband Auction! Reliance Industries steps into Telecom via Infotel
By Manoj Govindassamy at 14 June, 2010, 1:48 pm
The so called telecom heavy weights like Airtel, Reliance communication made a poor show with Airtel winning only license for 4 circles and RCom backing out of the bidding process in last few days. …We all knew about the truce flag hoisted between Ambani borthers few weeks back (after which we saw quite a few new business developments) and this helped Mukesh Ambani to come back to telecom market…
Read More >>Hikes & Hiring are back. So is attrition!!
By Poonam Singhal at 29 April, 2010, 11:25 am
Owing to the uproar in the IT industry, we have been hearing news of hiring, wage hikes and improved business. Of late we have posted a number of times, about hikes in Infosys, Wipro, TCS and many other companies. Associated with all this is the attrition. People have been sticking to their jobs for a [...]
Read More >>RBI hikes key rates. Will the home & car loans raise?
By Poonam Singhal at 22 April, 2010, 10:49 am
In the RBI Annual Monetary Policy for 2010-11, the repo rate and reverse repo rates have been hiked by 0.25%. See here for a glance at the definitions. The CRR (cash reserve ratio), portion of bank deposits to be kept with RBI, has been increased by 0.25%. This means banks will need more money for [...]
Read More >>IPL 2010 off the field drama – Kochi IPL Team Vs Lalit Modi Vs Shashi Tharoor – Kochi IPL Team Investors ??
By Manoj Govindassamy at 17 April, 2010, 12:36 pm
Starting with bidding saga for the 2 new IPL teams for next season, a series of IPL partnership announcement for all available media forms, whooping base pricing of the new IPL teams and fresh bidding for them and many other news kept IPL 2010 at all time high publicity. …Shashi Tharoor had maintained that his role was only that of a mentor, but later it was revealed by Modi that Sunanda Pushkar, a close associate of Tharoor, was gifted free equity worth Rs 700 million by the team owners…
Read More >>Twitter to follow Google Inc. – Make money through advertisements
By Muruganandham Krishnan at 15 April, 2010, 8:22 am
Popular micro blogging site Twitter is all set to unveil its advertisement model, which would mark its first step towards allaying concerns about its revenue generating potential. Now companies have to figure out how to use it without upsetting the Twitterati, who have until now, used the micro blogging service as their own private chat [...]
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