The Morpheus – Looking to fund 10 early stage startups

The Morpheus, is looking for 10 early stage startups to be part of its fifth Batch of Startups. Morpheus is a 3 yr old firm with a portfolio of 27 young exciting startups. They focus on working with super early stage startups , provide 5 L of funding & 4 months of intensive (& insane) support as a limited co-founder and more.
Does that fit what you are looking for? If it looks interesting, you can apply for the next batch – http://themorpheus.com/apply/

Catninja – Practise questions for CAT and other MBA exams in fun way.

CAT NINJA, http://catninja.in is a web-app where you can practise questions for CAT and other MBA exams in a fun and engaging way. Small sets of questions are presented as matches between you and the computer. You have to solve questions correctly to win to survive/win the match. Users have weapons such as shuriken(hint), by2bomb ( like 50:50 of KBC) and Shinobi(Time extension of 90 seconds) which they can use to help then win matches. By winning/surviving matches you can earn achievements and flaunt it to your facebook friends (integrated with facebook) You also compete with other players to become the TOP Ninja in the Hall of Legendary Ninjas (Hall of Fame).

Payment Gateway

Is the business of “Payment gateway” that bad? Why aren’t any big players entering the market to set up better structure and take control of the upcoming boom?

How is online advertising industry doing?

I see corporate ads but none for start ups or small to medium companies!!! Does online advertising really work?

Enterprise as platform

Recently I read about http://bettermeans.com/front/index.html on opensource.com(redhat community blog), it proposes a radically different organization model as platform.
Where can it be applied in context of Indian start up scene.

Reuters Market Light, part of Thomson Reuters, wins prestigious World Business & Development Award

Reuters Market Light (RML) has won a prestigious World Business and Development Award (WBDA) in recognition of its efforts for improving the lives of India’s farming community.

This information service launched in India in 2007 offers agriculture related information on various crops, pricing, market geographies, and climate/weather conditions and forecast helping farmers to improve their production and reduce marketing risks. RML, which began in 2007 in Maharashtra as a pilot project, has grown to a pioneering business that now operates in 13 states of India. The service is estimated to have reached over a million farmers and covers nearly 1,000 markets and over 250 crops and varieties.

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