Articles in the Startups Category
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URL Shortening tools are already in abundance on the web. Bit.ly is certainly the dominant link shortener at the moment but that isn’t prohibiting more and more tools to come up and proliferate into fast evolving URL shortening business.
But it’s also pretty evident that end users are no more interested in making transition to newer URL shortening tools, until the service is serving a valuable and unique purpose. With majority of URL shorteners facilitating same old link shortening, there are only a small fraction of URL shortening …
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Information Technology boom has significantly helped reorganizing the age old corporate businesses and it’s mainly due to the advent of robust technology platforms and sophisticated software applications that most of the iterative, time-consuming and error-prone tasks are now automated & machine controlled, with no chance of error whatsoever.
And usage of software applications for improving efficiency and saving time & money isn’t just limited to large enterprises and businesses. Individual businessmen, share traders, etc are making use of customized software solutions and utilizing them on a …
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, …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
Featured, 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 …
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 …
