startups

Good news to Young Indian Entrepreneurs or startup owners – US StartUp Visa Act

Indians are very good in hunting for opportunities abroad, especially tech-savvy community dreams their journey always towards the West. There are multiple reasons, people move to foreign countries and hunting for jobs,

Currency conversion – Money Minting….
Lucrative packages when compared to India
Opportunities are wide open which is not limited to working in a garage for silicon [...]

Bloom Energy – true energy alternative – Indian made green technology is talk of the town

…KR Sridhar quit his NASA job and invented something that could change the world. He is trying to achieve something similar to landline telephony to Mobile transition in electricity. What if you could replace hefty power grids with a small box for the same amount of power generation and in fact even better ? KR Sridhar’s startup (which inked in over $400 million in VC fundings and having over 10 years of stealth operation) Bloom Energy promises the true energy alternative and breakthrough technology to the world. Personally I am very excited after watching this interview by CBS …

Techpedia : bridging the gap between academics & industry

When in the final semester of engineering, all of us put a hell lot of effort in our final project, running around to companies, public & private, research institutes, professors and everyone else possible, to get an internship. But once we are out of college, we will not bother to even take a back-up of [...]

RuralShores – Corporate Social Responsibility – Innovative Indian Startup – Rural BPO

Have you ever heard of the term CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility. A new dimension of entrepreneurship, extending the IT industry to rural populace of India. RuralShores is once such company and won the runner up award for Best Innovative Startup by NASSCOM recently and the winner in the category was an another startup company [...]

Notion Ink’s Adam tablet – Yet another Desi Challenge to Apple iPad / Amazon Kindle

As we predicted here, desi companies are following suit in rising up and fighting face to face with big pocketed mighty guns. Few weeks back it was Infibeam which swept the indian gadget space with its Pi device announcement. This time, another Indian company NotionInk is releasing a similar E-Reader touchscreen device. Is it really a tablet? or a book reader? Notion Ink wants to call it a news species of device and so the name “Adam”… NotionInk’s ADAM Tablet vs Infibeam’s Pi vs Apple iPad vs Amazon Kindle …

Mango technologies: A start-up at Bangalore, sells two products to Qualcomm

India’s mobile user base is growing at a very fast rate, adding millions & millions of users every year. Till yesterday, India was known for its fast growing mobile usage. Now, not only are we the end users of the mobile techology, we are even defining the mobile & telecom business. Mango technologies, a start-up [...]

Infibeam.com wannabe India’s Amazon.com – Kindle or iPad or Pi ? A Desi Challenge !

… Not stopping with buying numerous other companies, it built some of the best technologies of today – Amazon web services and products – Elastic Compute Cloud EC2, Simple Storage Service S3, Elastic MapReduce, CloudFront, SimpleDB, Virtual Private Cloud VPC and many others…. I am here to talk about a company which wannabe India’s Amazon.com.If you are a regular reader of our blog, you would have stepped upon Pi – Kindle’s rival article…. The spec is not at all bad.When Amazon’s e-book reader Kindle is challenged by Apple’s iPad worldwide, an India grown company Infibeam is preparing for a face to face fight with other well known e-book reader companies in the local space. Without getting into much technical details about the Amazon’s Kindle or Apple’s iPad or Infibeam’s Pi and their comparisons or price tags or which one to buy, what i want to bring about here is for the first time (to my knowledge in the electronics items space) a desi company is launching a product of a very …

Cellphone application biz, like Ovi, gives way to local software developers

The mobile application stores are emerging as the next big business opportunity in the cellphone industry. This has given way to new business opportunities for Indian software companies. Leading players like Nokia, Google, BlackBerry & Samsung are looking at providing a global distribution platform to Indian developers.

Nokia, world’s largest mobile phone maker, alone has more [...]

MyDala.com ramping up fast – soon in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad – Social Networking for money saving

While at Centra Software, she gained insights into web-based applications by managing strategic partnerships with leaders in the e-learning space such as Oracle, Microsoft, Saba, Blackboard and Skill soft. MyDala has already partnered with more than 60 popular businesses across India and is in active discussion with many more. These deals would be available for casual dining and fast-food restaurants, shopping (clothing, handbags, shoes, etc.), health and beauty (massages, salons, gyms, etc.), recreation (movies, paintball, bowling, etc), services (drycleaners, cooking classes, dancing lessons, etc), and events (live music concerts, cricket matches, etc).Explaining how mydala.com is changing buying behavior among consumers, Anisha says,…. MyDala offered 50% at Chi restaurant, 50% off at Tabula Rasa, 65% off on authentic traditional Kerala Ayurvedic spa for 2 people, and 60% off on pedicure, manicure and facial, full-body waxing, bleach et al from the celebrated Blossom Kochhar’s Pivot Point Academy…. Facebook, Twitter, Orkut and on blogging sites, to promote awareness to get more people to form ….

Proto.in Start-up Event 7th edition – Sequoia Capital betting high

Proto.in, one of the few India’s start-up events, has entered into an exclusive partnership with Sequoia Capital for its upcoming editions this year. A high profile and a well known VC Firm Sequoia Capital is known for its investments in early and growth stage firms in India in the last several years and looks to partner with entrepreneurs from the seed through growth stages. Few of its investments in the internet segment are Apnapaisa.com, Guruji.com, Ideacts, Interactive, Minglebox.com, Shaadi.com, Tutorvista.com.Sequoia Capital has signed up as the Platinum Sponsor for the 2010 proto.in events happening in Mumbai on 30th January 2009, and its team members have volunteered to engage in one-on-one feedback and mentoring sessions with up to 30 companies at the upcoming Proto.in event in January …. expressing interest to meet with sequoia capital during the event..