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Indian Startups

Kerala to Celebrate Sep 12 as Entrepreneurship Day, Student Entrepreneurship Policy to Extend to school-going students

The state government is also launching a new project that offers one hundred teams of five college students each a Startup Tool Box, which will have high-end computers, smartphones and other technology items required to create a startup company.

Startup Village Gets SEBI Approval for $10 mn Early Stage Fund

The fund will focus on Telecom and Internet sector and will investing once the initial close of $2 mn is received.

Tech

Of 10,350 Miles Roadtrip, Music and Why #nwplyng is Hot

The company is seed funded by MobME and is among the first batch of incubatees at Startup Village.

Tech

Mallu Angel Network is here. Money wont be a problem for sure

The state now has an angel network, called the Mallu Angel Network, led by the likes of Kris Gopalakrishnan and Kerala’s chief Minister Oommen Chandy.

All about Incubator action in India : When Incubators and Accelerators spruced up like ecommerce businesses [2012 Recap]

2012 was a defining year for Indian startup ecosystem – apart from the launch of few ambitious startups, the ecosystem witnessed launches of several incubators and accelerators in India.

Tech

Startup Village in Kerala has blazing fast Internet (1 Gbps) and it’s NOT Google Fiber

India is one of the countries where the average Internet speed is the lowest. Broadband penetration in India is at a pitiful 1.2 % and average Internet speed is barely 1 Mbps. Search giant Google launched 1 Gbps Internet connection in the US earlier this year.

Tech

Newsreel [Oct 31] Disney buys Lucasfilm, makers of Starwars, for $4 Billion

Daily dose of tech news from around the world: Disney buys makers of Starwars Lucasfilm for $4 Billion. Acer delays Windows RT tablets. Sony’s TV Business: Like Chrysler? Or Oldsmobile?

Entrepreneurship

Big Deal : Kerala Government’s student entrepreneurship policy is out [The details]

The Government of Kerala has launched its student entrepreneurship scheme for universities, colleges and polytechnics in the state. As promised when we first wrote about the government’s intention to give attendance and grace marks to student entrepreneurs, here is the first look at the new policy.

Incubators and Accelerators in India: THE List.

List of Incubators and Accelerators in India. How much equity do they take? Portfolio focus? THE List.

NewsReel : Sep 22, 2012 [2567 developers at Microsoft’s Windows AppFest]

2567 developers coding non-stop for 18 hours set a world record for the Most Participants in a Software Development Marathon in one Location at KTPO, Bengaluru.

Entrepreneurship

Kerala to boost student entrepreneurship in a BIG way:20% attendance and 4% grace marks for student entrepreneurs

Kerala chief Minister Oommen Chandy on Wednesday said that the state will give 20 % attendance and 4 % grace mark for student entrepreneurs. He was speaking at the inauguration…

Indian Startups

Startup Deal: Get 50% off on your Logo design

We are bringing back the ‘Startup Deal’ service and the first deal we are starting off with comes from Wowmakers, a super-small, super talented Design-studio operating from a cool office inside Startup Village, Kochi, Kerala, India.