Indian Startup Portals

Looks like one of the good start up ideas is to start a portal for the Indian Startups

This post is about a few portals/blogs that I came across which are focused on Indian Startups. I am listing them here (in probably no order of preference) -

1. Pluggd.in
2. Startups.in
3. Theindianstartup.com
4. StartupDuniya

There are couple more I am familiar with like Hot Indian Startups and  Indian Web 2, but they exactly do not fall under the category of portals/blogs similar to the ones mentioned in above list.

Then, there is Proto.in which is not really a portal, but a platform that provides product startups to get visibility with media/investors. The website is more to cover the Proto.in events than anything else.

Now, almost all these blogs/portals’ objective is very similar - do a review or provide a online place / community for startups with special focus on companies that are based out of India (or startups targeting Indian customers). 

Most of them attempt to bring various Entrepreneurs, VCs,  Investors together, provide an online community sharing/discussing content that aids entrepreneurs.  They also provide a “free” platform to promote the start up by getting in listed in their respective directories and then provide reviews of various startups. Almost all of them attempt to get revenues thru online ADs.

A quick comparison on Alexa throws up that the most popular portal is pluggd.in and that it is way ahead of others.

Traffic trend comparison of Indian Startup portals

 

Page View Trend comparison of Indian Startup Portals

From content perspective, I believe pluggd.in has it all. But the look & feel of pluggd.in leaves a lot to be desired, in my view. Its too bland & disorganized for my liking.

TheIndianStartups appears to have been launched recently and is yet to attain critical mass w.r.t content.

I found that StartupDuniya even though is a personal blog, has quite unique content and has lots of potential to scale.

Overall, there definitely seems quite a head room for some one to start one more online portal for Indian Startups.

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8 Responses to “Indian Startup Portals”

1. wait, on August 11th, 2009 at 09:50 Said:

   wait. pluggdin also has news.pluggd.in which is copying all news from internet and has traffic. that adds to alexa

2. Tanmay, on August 11th, 2009 at 12:34 Said:

   Jesus. I did not know that. It is sheer plagiarism by pluggd. All that just to bump their numbers? Idiots they are. The person managing pluggd.in is a shameless plagiarist. How on earth did he think he can just lift off the content from other sources without getting caught? Shame on pluggd.

3. admin, on August 11th, 2009 at 12:42 Said:

   @wait @tanmay, while I agree that the numbers could be high because of news.pluggd.in, I have two points to make -
   1. I doubt very much if news is the only reason if numbers are high. I can see an active community on pluggd.in and the content is interesting. I keep visiting pluggd.in not for the news but for other content related to start ups.
   2. I also doubt if there is plagarism (may be there are valid sources/agreements to display the news) and more than that I dont think news was there only to increase thier numbers. To me its just an add on. I for one will never visit pluggd.in to find out news. I better for go to some newpapers/tv website for that.

   Btw, I am not in anyway related to pluggd.in or other websites mentioned in my post!

4. ashish, on August 24th, 2009 at 20:38 Said:

   Thanks for the f/b on pluggd.in looks - yes, its quite boring and I do agree that a lot needs to be achieved (we are relaunching the new looks in few weeks)
   regarding comments by @wait and others - notice alexa subdomains and you won’t find news.pluggd.in in that list - there is a reason for having that site and traffic is the last one (it doesn’t add to traffic)
   And btw each news item is limited to 40words and is linked to the source - just the way any other aggregator does it.

5. admin, on August 24th, 2009 at 22:53 Said:

   @ ashish, thanks for the clarification. Will look forward for the revamped l&f.

6. viki, on September 20th, 2009 at 17:53 Said:

   have u guys seen apnastartup.com. What do you guys think about it?

7. Kunal, on September 30th, 2009 at 15:48 Said:

   Thanks for mentioning theindianstartup.com! We are a community, blogging platform and promotion engine for entrepreneurs in India. The benefits of membership at our community are listed here: http://theindianstartup.com/features

   One of our main goals is to provide infrastructure for entrepreneurs to advise and help each other out. Considering this, most of our content is contributed from our community and we hope that as we grow, new content will be added at a faster rate.

8. admin, on September 30th, 2009 at 18:40 Said:

   @viki, I was not aware of apnastartup.com. Just visited it. First impression is good.

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