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Social entrepreneurship is fast growing popular and the opportunity in it is far beyond the buzz. Personally, I am of the opinion that growth in India will eventually move out of the big cities and happen int he rural confines of our country. I believe that the value waiting to be unlocked in our hinterlands is enoromous. Of course social entrepreneurship doesn’t just mean you have to work in villages. It is about empowering the underprivileged wherever they might be.

I hope the two buzzwords of our time social media and social entrepreneurship work together and grow to completely alter the value chain and entrepreneurial eco system for the better.

The possibilities that the web provides when it comes to being entrepreneurial is limitless. Now there can be better ways to set your business up, however, using the web as a platform certainly makes it easier to get things started. And we all know so many dudes who did such stuff while in college and went on to make truckloads of truckloads of money. This may just help in you in getting your act right while you still can.

KickStart.in, a non-profit initiative, has been working at promoting entrepreneurship and helping out the young guns to manage their ventures for quite some time now. The trend of startups is growing in the country today and more people are interested to make it out on their own.
 
“Special Startup Sunday” is a great initiative from KickStart.in [...]

Venture Hacks, a blog on entrepreneurship has launched what it calls the Recommended feature. Well as the name goes, the service helps the new entrepreneurs seek recommendations from people that ether know them or have used their service. Founded by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi, Venture Hacks plans to make the process of reference checking smoother by presenting a Twitter-like system where you can make a profile and others can follow you. There can be recommendations from people who know you.

I’ve been wanting to write about the sheer dearth of talent in the WAT (web, advertising & Technology) space since quite sometime now. But I guess with clear signs of a US slowdown and IT companies laying off people in India it couldn’t have been a better time to write about this.
 
Ive been a keen [...]

At the recently concluded Proto.in Summit, Chintan Mehta from Yahoo! shed some light on the above mentioned topic.
 
 
Mistakes that Innovators make:
 
1) They miss the product vision and user value. So there may be feature overload while the core value may be lost. So there may be products with multiple uses without any core value. One needs clarity of where [...]

At the OMCAR Job Fair in New Delhi, Manish Vij, the Co founder of Quasar Media and Anurag Gupta from DGM Media spoke about the above mentioned subject.
 
 
Here is WATBlog’s perspective of all that was important.
 
 
An Entrpreneur: A person who takes risks to develop a commercial venture using the factor of natural resources, factors of production, human input, and capital.
 
 
An entrepreneur [...]

Do you remember a movie from 70’s titled Seeta aur Geeta? No, I am not going to narrate the story here. India based women’s portal Sitagita.com that reminds the same catchy title has launched India’s first online women’s home based business directory.
 

It’s a good news for women entrepreneurs as they can find valuable resources [...]

Have a look at the statistic below – try and find where India figures on this list that ranks countries on the basis of Average Broadband Speed.

Surprised? A supposed hub of International technology development does not even figure on this list. Until August 2005, India did not even have a route server. It thus  took [...]