There are books and then there are books that you can’t leave till you are done with it (I just couldn’t put it down).
Mastering the VC Game belongs to the second type. Written by Jeffrey Bussgang (General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners), the book walks you through the VC mind and helps one understand the entire investing process better.
Economy is bouncing back and companies have started recruiting. And it shows up in InfoEdge’s Q4 results. After two quarters of negative growth and one flat quarter-total Income in Q4 of FY09-10 at Rs 717.37 mn, a 11.8% increase over the corresponding quarter in FY08-09. Other income Rs 64.79 mn, is marginally up compared to [...]
Nokia’s ambitious Mobile Money project (in partnership with Yes Bank and Obopay) has received an approval from RBI. Nokia Money pilot began in Pune and enables people to transfer money to another person simply by using the person’s mobile phone number. They’ll also be able to pay utility bills and top up SIM cards. Looking [...]
Startups today have no IT infrastructure of their own. They are lean, agile, and small. They work virtually using applications that are hosted in the Cloud. According to Wikipedia, a typical Cloud Computing provider deliver common business applications online which are accessed from another web service or software like a web browser, while the software and data are stored on servers.
We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors. Event : Technology & Mentorship Forum in Chennai and Mumbai NSTEDB, Dept of Science, Govt of India and Dell India have come together to bring THE TECHNOLOGY AND MENTORSHIP FORUM [TMF]. The TMF offers entrepreneurs a unique opportunity to interact with successful business leaders and [...]
Subroom is a submission management tool. Submission as in research paper submission for conferences, assignment submission in academics etc. This is how Orangut works: 1. Register an event and create sub events to it. 2. Add Subrooms for the events to manage any public participation. 3. Publicize the event URL and invite registrants. They have [...]
Most of the other company review sites have been abandoned as well. Criticat, Talentty. Apart from the fact that most of these sites went thru’ recession blues when jobs were hardly few and far in between, there was ofcourse a basic missing factor – that of monetization/sustainability.
Google India has launched Script Converter, tool that converts a given web page or piece of text from one script to another. Script Converter is a transliteration tool and supports 17 languages with 17X17 conversion support: Bengali, English, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu. Using [...]
Okay. We all know that you ARE working on the next big thing right now and gonna make a dent in the Universe with it because your product has all that kick-ass aura that junta would definitely crave for; but there is just one little question: Can you kill someone? Can you kill a seasoned [...]
Vodafone is all set to launch the much awaited ultra-low cost Vodafone 150 in India that it announced back in Feb. The handset is reported to cost a mere Rs.700. The phone has 1.0” monochrome graphic display, polyphonic ringtones, alarm, calculator, torch and mini USB connector. The battery life is claimed to be 400hours on [...]
