Category Archives: Startups

LxiDD is hiring Web Developers

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I hope, some day I can do a sane article about LxiDD but for now, let’s be content with the fact that this is my latest work. I started LxiDD this January (2013) and we ‘released’ our first version in February. By March, we got our first three customers and we sorta became ramen profitable [...]

What Startups can learn from Iron Man 3

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Yes, as expected Iron Man 3 was an awesome movie. The movie opens as a narrative by Tony Stark to Dr. Bruce Banner, a story that started way before Tony Stark became Iron Man. I won’t be talking about the movie, I’ll let you enjoy that at a theatre near you. So, after the Avengers [...]

Olacabs, a bad User Experience (Update: Bad Customer Service too)

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Olacabs (source : Olacabs) India is on a 48 hour stand-still with the ‘India Bandh’ called by the All Trade Union. They are protesting against privatization, outsourcing, violation of labour laws, price rise and several other burning issues of the country, trade unions of banking, insurance, public sector undertakings, transporters and unorganized sectors. Nope, I’m [...]

Create that ‘OneBucketList’ for your life and act on it

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Not a To-Do list. Not an agenda for your life’s routine. Something, which you usually have in your mind, the list of things you would love to do in your life. Be it – learning to sky-dive, go on that dream vacation, visit that exotic island, spend few undisturbed weeks in a less-trodden place – [...]

Startup Baba

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Startup Baba is simple newsletter where we highlight some of the interesting, crazy and fun stories from the world of startup and entrepreneurship. Every newsletter consists of about five curated links and a short excerpt about the stories. We also try to include links to tools and utilities which will be useful for design and [...]

A quick chat about “In50Hrs” with Vijay Anand

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Many in the Indian Startup scene knows Vijay Anand or have heard of him. Vijay Anand run The Startup Centre and is very involved with Startups and Entrepreneurs in India. I recently had the opportunity to meet him in person when he brought In50Hrs to Bangalore for the first time. In50hrs is The Idea-To-Prototype Event. [...]

In50hrs – The Idea-to-Prototype Event

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In50hrs is an interesting concept, where ideas meet doer to build something in a short time – a weekend. In50hrs is The Idea-To-Prototype Event. Entrepreneurs (or Idea Smiths), Developers and Product Designers come together to work on audacious ideas and build working prototypes (MVP) over a Weekend. In50hrs have few chapters happening across major Indian [...]

Krassimir Fotev scoffs at SEO with his brainchild, Peer Belt

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If you’re like me then you are sick of SEO. These cookie-cutter predictive patterns that create a myopic filter for the content we see online make as much sense as casting a rapper in a film noir, or taking a three-year old to a fine china shop. This must be what Krassimir Fotev thought when [...]

Dayson Pais: Entrepreneur²

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Mumbai-based Dayson Pais is the founder of Webly, of Epicwhale, of The Womo — and now he is the founder (and janitor) of Textme. And all this has been in the past 5 years. Dayson’s passion is incubating services and products for the web, brand identity, print, mobile & digital field — hence the creation [...]

Business Intelligence with Retailigence

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Peter Christianson’s resume, as he tells it, is like a who’s who of NASDAQ success stories – so when he lent his talents to new startup, Retailigence, people paid attention. Retailigence and its founder, Jeremy Geiger, are leveraging Peter’s thorough portfolio of skills: business development, revenue growth, supply chain management, operations research, statistics, management consulting, [...]