I attended the Startup City Event held at Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore on June 6th. Its a free for all event. Reached the venue by 8:45 AM and stayed there till lunch. Could not stay till the evening due to some constraints. The crowd was sizable and I was actually surprised to see so many people [...]
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A while back, I blogged on pustak.co.in. Today, I came across one more online book store aimed at Indian buyers - thestorez.com. This is started in May 2008. I quickly browsed thru thestorez.com, compared this with pustak.co.in and this blog is about that comparison -
1. User Interface - Look & Feel, Ease of Navigation - [...]
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cplash.com - a website for Citizen Journalism. This is a website started by three college students.
The most impressive thing about this website is the design and ease of navigation. Very well done. One can “cplash” (a fancy word for a post) on any topic. I also liked the “Governance” section of the website which talks about [...]
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After reviewing PAW yesterday, I was thinking if Open Source is really killing entry level product companies or if it is enabling them. I had this dilemma because what would prevent any one from implementing PAW in open source and give it free to every one! True, one may not be implement features such as [...]
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Came across this start up - PAW.
I must congratulate Mr. Rajat Gupta for venturing into software products. The product space is very empty with almost every one else wanting to start one more web2.0 website with no real revenue generation capabilites!
Coming to PAW 1.0 - as the name indicates this is a work bench to [...]
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This is my first post on my own domain - thoughtsinprogress.co.in. I have been desiring to have my own website for quite some time and finally - a small desire satisfied.
This blog is about my experience with my webhosting provider whost.in. I found whost.in after extensive searching on internet for a provider to satisfy my [...]
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One more start up - pustak.co.in. This is an India (Bangalore) based online book store start up.
While I am yet to a buy a book online, the book catalogue is very comprehensive and most importantly functional - most titles I searched for are available.
The website is very organized. Unlike Amazon, it is difficult to [...]
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