Weekly Recap : October 19th – 26th

Recap (selected posts) of last week’s stories. The week’s highlights were

• Launch of Indian Startup Ecosystem – response has been awesome and we have received quite a few emails from VCs/entrepreneurs asking for more features/interaction points.
• Successful launch of Chandrayaan, the unmanned lunar exploration mission spacecraft.

Startup/Entrepreneurship Related

• “..best companies are created in tough times” – Suvir Sujan, Nexus India
• DimDim raises funds from Zimbra co-founder
• “..when going gets tough, we really really need to focus on execution” – Lalit, Mobisy
• Phonon – CTI and IVR based Solutions for Businesses
• Mobee – Receive Emails on your Mobile (as SMS) for free

Must Read

• Grow Knowledge
  Irrespective of who you are (startup/geek/VC/musician/what’er), I recommend you to read this article by Sanjay Anandaram.
• What are the Critical Success Factors of your Business?
  

From the Digital World

• Rediff goes live with open platform (iShare being the first)
• Navigation Roundup: MapMyIndia: iNav, SatNav take UGC route with roadsofindia
• Display Ads Pricing down by 27%
• ClearTrip targets 30% growth..Traffic stats from other OTAs
• 88% of Mumbai Wireless Networks are open for hackers
• 10 mn mobile users added in September
• Launches: RadioRocks, CricketNext goes Mobile (with Mi),

Tech

• IBM Goes SaaS-Y with Lotus Notes Domino
• Sun Co-Founder Calls it a Day, Starts up
• Washing Machine Inspiration from Sequoia Presentation?
• RSS Feed Adoption @ 11%

ShortCircuits

• Antya nearing Deadpool? Founders move on
• WorldSpace files for Bankruptcy