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Startup Lunch, the recruiting event which is loosely based on the concept of speed dating, is finally coming to Hyderabad. The scheduled date for the event is 23rd August.

Proto.in the startup event that’s in its fourth edition now which is due sometime in july in Delhi has launched another innovative exercise which is trying to address the problem of startups i.e. hiring! Startup Lunch is a programme which is aiming to get prospective startup employees and startups together. They also have put up [...]

I first came across iXiGo at the first proto.in event (which im a part of) way back in January 2007. I remember meeting Aloke and Dharmendra the founders of iXiGo and mentioning to them that I liked their presentation but I felt they need to look more like a search engine and less like an [...]

Myntra.com was on of the companies that was presenting at Proto.in when we were in Chennai. Myntra is basically a company that allows consumers to create their own merchandise. Myntra.com is also a marketplace for designers where creative people can simply upload their designs and earn a royalty every time their design sells. In addition to that [...]

Proto.in which concluded last weekend has some interesting internet startups strut their stuff on the podium. Some of them were unheard of but on presentation seemed like some very good opportunities catering to unattended markets. Here is lowdown on those startups and what we liked in them.
 
TheViewspaper - This is one startup that was bubbling [...]

Why Facebook was so interesting in 2007?
 
Well apart from the stake that Microsoft bought, Facebook had a free platform that allowed developers to create applications and basically distribute it through Facebook “virally”. This leveraged a lot of share of mind for consumers – socially.
 
Surojit Niyogi from Appizer  lent some insights at Proto.in
 
Facebook I think is growing so quickly because of [...]

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 [...]

The assumption is that India CAN be a technology leader.
 
Historically, India in the last 10 years has been an innovator.
 
 
Take the iPhone as an example. At the launch of the iPhone, Steve Jobs showed the audience that the iPhone flips the picture from portrait to landscape mode automatically. This was shown in India in 1999. [...]

Google has lent a helping hand to Proto.in, a premier entrepreneurial start-up forum, by becoming the lead sponsor for the same. Proto is in its second year and has been a brilliant platform for over 40 companies to acquire clients, receive exposure, retain and hire talent, and in growing in market presence that quite [...]

We had an events update for december wherein multiple events surrounding the web and startups were happening across India. The year 2008 has upped the events quotient even further as this month 3 events would be taking place which i think you should make on your calendar and make a point to attend (Or you [...]

A new travel engine just launched yesterday, So whats so different about Ixigo. Well as they bluntly mention on their website they do not sell anything, but they hope to make buying, travel related services online more comprehensive and let’s just say trouble free. I spoke to Aloke Bajpai Founder & CEO, here’s the encounter [...]

Come January, be ready to be part of PROTO - an event that "hopes to bridge the gaps behind the entrepreneurs, VCs and the Technologists, in helping them to connect, share their passions, resonate with the ideas and get feedbacks on the next big thing to come". In our attempt to understand more about the [...]