Came across this online group shopping place - govasool.com.
The basic idea is simple, yet very innovative. Buyers can form a virtual group to buy one item. Sellers can bid for the order with their prices. Idea is that the more the number of buyers, the lower the prices will be at which sellers will bid, providing a [...]

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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 [...]

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Came across this start up - bighelp.in - provider of virutal private assistants - to take care of errands that take up time. Basically, BigHelp is a service provider who provides a virtual personal assistant who takes orders from you and does the job - freeing up your time.
I am sure this is a great [...]

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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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