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We are at the TIE-ISB Connect happening at ISB, Hyderabad and yesterday was day 1 of the conference where in workshops were conduction on raising funding and marketing strategy for startups.
One of the sessions was on fund raising by startups and DD ganguly of dimdim.com was the speaker.
DD Ganguly of Dimdim.com on How to raise [...]

The WATBlog Panel was initiated by a keynote by Bruno Goveas, Head Marketing & Product Management (India), Akamai the sponsors of the WATBlog Panel. He initiated the panel outlining in his keynote that Media explosion over Internet was the future of the next decade.
The panel started immediately with panelists Ashish Gupta - Helion Ventures, Sateesh [...]

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.

Sometime back, I received an invitation from Diditz.com, another of such sites. The site is in its alpha stage right now. Here is what I thought of it…

Blink’s product is based on the simple premise that, shopping decisions are made on the shop floor and not at home in front of the TV. Therefore, even advertising and product pitches should be made at the same time. Their shopping cart offers a lot of intuitive features to make shopping easy for shoppers while giving ample opportunities to promote sales offers for advertisers.

NEN (National Entrereneurship Network) and TATA have launched hotteststartups.in a platform where one can nominate and vote for the hottest startups of India. WATBlog is happy to be a associate partner of this initiative and would recommend all the startups to list themselves and also participate in voting for the other startups.

Besides for TATA and [...]

WATShow interviewed Dr Rajesh Shrivathsa of Ojas Ventures when we went shooting the Startups at Proto 4. We had recently covered Ojas Ventures’ acquisition of mobile tech startup Mango Technology. And as promised then, we now have an interview with Dr. Rajesh.

Picsquare.com one of the many photo sharing, printing and gifting sites that we covered in this slideshare presentation has finally secured funding. Picsquare has raised an undisclosed sum from Bhola Digital labs which is a  decade and a half old company into high quality printing solutions and is spread across Karnataka. There have been a [...]

Lifeblob.com the startup that presented at proto.in recently has closed 1 million $’s in funding from seed stage angel fund Seedfund which is led by the founder of Pinstorm Mahesh Murthy.

Building a high performance team is definitely not an easy job. Finding right people and convincing them to join your startup is an art which only a few people are gifted with. However, if you start avoiding some basic mistakes, more often than not, you will end up with a high performance team.
After observing many [...]

With the buzzing Startup sceene in India, equity seems to be a hot property and it’s no surprise like TimesGroup have something called as Times Private Treaties through which it seems to be striking advertising for equity deals with startups and sme’s across the world. Now, this trend of equity for offering services be it media outreach [...]

Intel is now eying the growing market of Web 2.0 companies over the World Wide Web with new start ups coming up every single day. Most of the web-start ups are resource hungry websites that process vast amount of data and have large number of users. These companies need a strong and powerful infrastructure to back the activity that goes on through the sites. Intel is apparently trying to cash in on this factor and is aiming to power the systems that run these sites.

We have Rishabh on board today covering the first set of startups showcased at Proto 4. The session included six of them, primarily in the Web and Technology arena. Without further adieu, let’s let Rishabh rolling.

“Thought that I was late, turned out so was everyone else. Was quite a task to find the gate. Dogra Hall is a labyrinth!” Anyway, pretty soon we began the session, and the following startups made their pitch.

OrderMonger.com, a startup started by four software engineers who have previously worked at Microsoft, has been selling online food, flowers and groceries online. OrderMongers.com enables ordering of food, flowers and rent cars online. OrderMongers.com has been operating in Hyderabad and is now looking to expand to other cities

Sameer Guglani whose dvd rental startup Madhouse got funded for 1.05 crore and who later sold madhouse to Seventymm and joined them as VP-Corporate Strategy has now decided to quit Seventymm alongwith his Madhouse partner Nandini and start off a new venture. The new venture is a US based YCombinator style venture firm called Morpheus [...]