Great Marketing Lessons from the Spiritual World
India has been known for its spirituality, swamis and sadhus for as long as anyone can care to remember. Spirituality has been one of India’s most successful exports (Bollywood’s “soft…
VC investment in India
As per report by Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young, VC investment in India has grown significantly in 2007: Till Q3 2005, VC investment was 158mn $ (and 320mn$…
Internet is still not governed by intellects
And that has been proved time and again! Y! has released it’s top search queries in 2007 and like 2005 and 2006, Britney Spears is on everybody’s mind! 2006 top…
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PetPooja – Now Gujaratis get to order food from the Internet
An interesting trend that is worth noticing. It all started with the IT city (i.e. Bangalore) getting an online destination to order foods (i.e. HungryBangalore). The concept took off and…
Couple of updates and announcements
Update: Reverted back to the good old theme – many of you sent me emails asking to get back to the “older way of viewing” NextBigWhat.com! If you have been…
Proto.in’s January edition announced
Proto.in‘s Jan edition has been announced and here are the details: Date: January 18th and 19th, 2008 Place: Chennai Nomination Link: Nominate your startup/product Fee: No fee for nomination. If…
GTalk adds Group Chat functionality – catching up with Y!?
Google has added group chat functionality to GTalk client. Using this, you can start a conference and chat with multiple people at once. Once you initiate the conversation with your…
OrderMonger.com: Order food, groceries, car rentals..and more
Hyderabad based startup, OrderMonger provides web/phone based system for ordering food, flowers, car rentals, and groceries. OrderMonger’s differentiation lies in their attempt to be the one-stop shop for customer orders.…
Broadband penetration in India – Govt. throws another bait?
Did you know that Indian govt. declared 2007 to be the “Year of Broadband”? Like plethora of other promises, they forgot this one too! Forget about the penetration, India stands…
Telecom roundup:Fixed line subscribers switch to mobile, Record mobile sales..and more
Telecom delay to cost Rs 800 cr a day: report The Indian economy stands to lose around Rs 800 crore daily if it continues delaying decisions on telecom recommendations –…
Ground realities from a technology product startup in India
[Guest post by Sujai Karampuri, co-founder of Sloka Telecom. Sujai shares his entrepreneurial journey in the most candid way and this post reflects the state of pure technology investment in…
Publish your own books! Print-on-Demand is in
If you are an upcoming/casual author, the chances of your books making it to the stand is very less. Not because of the quality, but any publishing house will insist…
BigShoeBazaar : Buy Branded shoes on the Internet
BigShoeBazaar is an interesting startup that has setup an online store to buy branded shoes. The store currently boasts of 30 brands (right from Bata, Woodlands, Reebok to Red Tape/Mardi…
MetroMela : city based listing service
MetroMela is a city based listing service and is currently available in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Mysore, Vizag and Cochin. What’s different about MetroMela? The city-based service space is already…
Live Documents – New wine in the old bottle
Marketers market and Bloggers take the fodder and blog (and forget to do the reality check). If you think Sabeer Bhatiya’s Live Documents is a newly launched product, you are…
