Articles in the Startups Category
Startups, Utility focussed »
As we get to interact with many guys who try their hands in starting up their own tech company and end up failing badly and burning plenty of bootstrapped or externally funded capital, the most plausible cause of failure remains Partner Mismatch.
Deadpooling happens either due to the technical incapabilities of the tech guy, inspite of an innovative idea to work upon, or because of a poor decision maker/idea guy, inspite of a superbly talented geek at work.
As it’s always better to learn from other’s mistakes, if you happen to …
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Most of the recent trends on web are strongly pointing towards a Social Web. With latest Social Media frenzy, propelled by Youtube, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter etc, it’s evident that all of us love socializing on web and almost addicted to sharing stuff on web.
And we’re sharing almost everything on web today. From family photos to touring videos to anything else that we feel worth sharing amongst our friends. But it often happens that the photos we share describe some event, incident, basically a story and mere uploading of pictures …
Startups, Utility focussed »
All of us take pride in living into the Internet Age and there are countless reasons why Internet has almost become as critical part of our lives as electricity or water supply.
We can do almost everything online. From filing tax returns to paying mobile phone bills, from booking advance train/flight/movie tickets to doing business communication, internet is an all-purpose solution to getting things done today.
Considering the last five years or so, any netizen would admit to being regular(or addicted) to some social networking site(Facebook?) or the other(regional sites). Nowadays, …
Startups, Utility focussed »
With the advent of internet across the globe along with contractual work outsourcing, employees (both regular and contractual) of medium/large sized businesses are becoming a lot more geographically diversified. No matter where the employees reside, the efficiency and work throughput remains unperturbed, thanks to the fast adoption of Cloud computing and plethora of collaborative web technologies available at zero cost to the users.
But one critical aspect of speculating and enhancing the efficiency of location independent or contractual work strength is to track whether they’re actually working for …
Startups, social network »
Social Networking is an inevitable part of our life today but honestly, it is nothing more than an extension of our Social life onto Web. We prefer connecting to folks who’re real life friends of ours, not strangers.
Our cause of friendship on these social networks is our pre-established real life relations. This is all what Facebook, Myspace, Orkut etc are all about.
Now, it’s time to for you to explore a new social life, purely built around you and everything that’s just about yourself, in a different, refreshing way altogether. Meet
Business oriented, Startups »
As majority of online population is on Facebook, Myspace and other social network today, it’s quite intuitive to figure out reasons why Online Social Networks have become unbelievably important to our personal lives. Most of us have some sort of community on these networking sites, where we communicate amongst each other, share pics, videos, play games, listen to music and do similar stuff.
Now, like social networks, do we have such a rich community oriented platform to benefit our businesses ? Well, you might say LinkedIn but LinkedIn is limited to Business …
Startups, Utility focussed »
Although economy is on a recovery track now, most companies, especially small scale businesses are preferring to continue taking all possible measures for minimizing their recurring business expenses. And one of the most critical factors for any business, vocal communication, is one such area where effective cost savings can be done but is also an area where cost cutting is generally ignored.
As conventional telephony systems are cost-ineffective and newer VOIP solutions are limited to PCs only, there has to be a midway solution which would provide the convenience of conventional …
Startups, e-learning 2.0 »
IT Industry is probably the most dynamic industry compared to any other industry. The basic IT fundamentals keeps on evolving, latest technologies keep on replacing the older ones and ever-increasing competition makes it even tougher for IT companies, from small to large, to keep up with the cashflows, especially in the days of recession.
And the same scenario holds true for IT employment as well. Fast technological advancement always puts across a challenge for experienced IT professionals to keep on updating their skillset and knowledge for sustaining themselves in the industry. …

