Weekly Recap : Why you MUST know sales, Student Startup Coverage [and more]

Most Popular Articles (week ending January 29nd, 2012)

“Our first board meeting took place inside our hostel room.” – TechBuddy Consulting:

7 Reasons why you MUST know SALES! [Sales Teaches you Business Models of the World]

How to get into YCombinator [Interview with Interviewstreet]

Is That You? [Which is Which and Who is Who]

5 Reasons Why There Is No E-commerce Bubble in India [Hint:Women Have Yet To Begin Shopping Online]

Reward versus Punishment : Carrot has more Power than a Stick?

A Day in Life of a Sales Manager Working for a Group Buying/Deals Startup

Startups/Entrepreneurship/Funding Archive

• MunchWithus Provides Social Dining Network [Never Eat Alone]
• Notion Ink partners with Texas Instruments for Adam II
• MySuperBrain: An Online Platform Enabling Overall Development of Children
• Ecolibrium Energy Aspires to be India’s Largest Virtual Power House
• What if things go south? How to shutdown Pvt Limited or a LLP Business in India
• Hide it Pro: Hide the Pictures/Videos you don’t want anyone to see [Appnomy App of the Day]
• Freecharge Secures INR 20 Cr Series A Funding from Sequoia Capital
• Mobstac Kills Freemium Model, Says Advertisement Revenues Not Enough
• Online Jewellery Store, BlueStone Secures $5mn Funding from Accel Partners and Meena Ganesh
• Indian Angel Network invests in Peel-Works: Salesforce talent transformation & BPO firm

India Online/Telecom

• Smartphone App Usage in India: Google Products Lead the App Race
• TRAI exempts machine to machine and person to machine messages from the limit of 200 SMS per day per SIM
• Indian Government Asks Army to get off Facebook
• Oracle Launches Big Data Appliance in India
• Japan Based NTT Com to Acquire 74% Stake in Netmagic Solutions
• Indian Enterprise IT Spending Will Grow 10.3 % in 2012, Retail to Drive the Growth
• Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Joins Twitter
• SMS Spam: TRAI to Block Bulk International SMS Beginning with Alphanumeric Combination

From Pluggd.in forum (http://www.NextBigWhat.com/forum)

• The “we are a startup” Excuses
• Customer Loyalty – don’t place your bets on it …
• DateIITians- A New World of Social Dating
• Campus Placement OR Entrepreneurship?
• JEE, AIEEE to merge [IIT Entrance]
• Command and Conquer [HTML 5 Game]
• ebay India selling 100% Placement Guaranteed Program in Software Industry
• Online VS Offline prices

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