Interviews with digital company ceo and leaders

WATShow caught up with Suvir Sujan of Nexus India Capital and asked him about his recent investment in sedemac a company in the efficient energy segment and we also queried him about what kind of companies he is looking to fund given the newly closed 220 million $ fund.
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We did a WATShow to Raman Roy the founding member of Indian Angel Network (previously band of angels) at the recently concluded Nasscom summit and questioned him about angel funding, business plans, what’s critical for a startup and so on.
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Got a mail this morning from the founder of Picsquare informing us about an acquisition of Picsquare by Infibeam.

Picsquare for those who dont know is an online photo printing and customized gift products like greeting cards, photo frames, t-shirts, photo puzzle, gifts and offers features that allow users to customize the product that [...]

We were at the recent Startup Saturday and one of the speakers was Siddharth Banerjee the Founder and CEO of a very interesting company by the name of Indusgeeks which deals in creating a presence for corporates in Virtual Worlds like SecondLife.com and others. Their previous experience includes working with clients like Cry and Wipro.
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UTV’s Q2 results indicated a a bullish outlook on both gaming and internet businesses.
As per the financial results of UTV over Rs. 250 crores has been invested by UTV in the gaming segment and it has acquired the likes of True Games an MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Games) to service the US and Turkey markets. [...]

With the RBI guidelines coming to the fore the mobile payments market has an official go ahead from the authorities. So we thought it was a great time to speak to some of the mobile payment players and know what they feel are the challenges and opportunities of this market.
We spoke to Sanjay Swamy CEO, [...]

We had promised in our earlier post that we would get in touch with 9.9 Mediaworx which got funded recently for 7 odd million dollars. Well we did catch up with Asheesh Gupta of 9.9 Mediaworx who also leads digital and got more than we asked for. So here is an exclusive interview with Asheesh [...]

Myntra.com an online marketplace for on demand consumer products like t-shirts, mugs, greeting cards, calendars, keychains and diaries has received an A series round of funding from three venture firms in NEA-IndoUS, IDG Ventures and Accel Partners. The funding shall be utilized for geography expansion (they have recently opened a noida office) and product portfolio [...]

Divyansh Sharma our guest WATBlogger in Delhi who is covering the TIE Con Delhi met up with Hitesh Oberoi and interviewed him on the future strategy on Firstnaukri, which was announced as a part of naukri recently, brijj.com and the slowdown and its impact on naukri.com.
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Q1) When do you plan on launching [...]

We reported on Nayanaya.mobi being launched today morning and there being a confusion on the business model and monetization of third party content on Nayanaya sites.  So we got in touch with Mr.Rajesh Jain as promised and questioned him about the details of the Nayanaya launch.
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1) What is the objective/business case behind [...]

We had recently covered iXiGo.com’s strategy of going mobile and essentially eliminating the OTA with their new mobile click to call feature. We caught up with Aloke Bajpai of iXiGo.com to know more about their business model with the mobile version and on current traction at iXiGo.
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1) Why go mobile whats the [...]

So it was just recently that Goose Fish Media Ventures (owned by Sidharth Rao - Founder of Webchutney) had announced the launch of two vertical ad networks in GoSinbad and Divanation. But now it seems they realized that having one network which focuses on verticals would be far easier scale.

So they have merged the two [...]

We had ealier spoken to Tim Draper of DFJ on his thoughts about the slowdown. We felt that we also needed to take a closer to home point of view of Venture Capitalists who have been working with entrepreneurs and business models in India for sometime now.

We caught up with Sateesh Andra of Draper Fisher [...]

We met Tim Draper the Founder & Managing Director of Draper Fisher Juvertson who was in Mumbai recently. We spoke to him on various issues right from the current economic slowdown to how he viewed the Indian market, his advice to entrepreneurs and Why was he in India?.. and more..
Tim on Global Economic Slowdown
Entrepreneurs Perspective
Tim [...]

Yes we are back this time with a WATShow with Sulekha Director of Brand and Global Marketing on Sulekha.com’s focus, local commerce, userbase demographics, on their competition and also on their expansion plans. He also speaks about the recent tie up with Career Builder.
Also note his reference to Asklaila a prospective competitor which he denies [...]