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WATShow With Satya Prabhakar - CEO - Sulekha.com On Startup Funding, Team & More

WATShow With Satya Prabhakar – CEO – Sulekha.com On Startup Funding, Team & More

We caught up with Mr. Satya Prabhakar, Founder & CEO- Sulekha.com and spoke to him about team building and the challenges in convincing investors from US for startups in India.This and more in the exclusive WATShow below:

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Burrp Was Sold For 4.25 Cr - Expensive Or Cheap?

Burrp Was Sold For 4.25 Cr – Expensive Or Cheap?

We had questioned at the time of the sale of Burrp to Infomedia18 on whether this deal was a strategic sale or a distress one! Well now the cat or the amount in this case is out of the bag.
Burrp was sold for 4.25 crores as per the SEBI filing by Infomedia18. This amounts to [...]

News Roundup: SulekhaB2B Garners Half A Million Members; SaffronArt Launches iPhone App

News Roundup: SulekhaB2B Garners Half A Million Members; SaffronArt Launches iPhone App

SulekhaB2B.com, the Indian trade portal for global arena has crossed half a million registered user base. This comes at a time when small and medium businesses has seen decline in product demand across sectors in recent past.

SulekhaB2B is nothing new feature-wise and mainly resembles Alibaba. It has been able to gain ground due [...]

DIALB2B - TradeIndia's New On-phone Service

DIALB2B – TradeIndia’s New On-phone Service

TradeIndia is back in news with the launch of DAILB2B service. This service has been started to help buyers & sellers to directly reach the potential business partner. With the help of DAILB2B service you now need not logon to their site to send inquiries or note down buyers/ sellers information. CCE person will perform [...]

TradeIndia Offers New Chinese Section For Indian SMEs

TradeIndia Offers New Chinese Section For Indian SMEs

After the entrance of Alibaba in India. Indian B2B companies are coming up with set-ups to attract new customers and to retain existing customers. In this race, TradeIndia.com has introduced a separate section for China Suppliers to bridge the gap between Indian and Chinese suppliers.

With the huge growth of Internet in India & China, these [...]

Sulekha Falls Prey To Declining Ad Revenues - To Make Classified Paid

Sulekha Falls Prey To Declining Ad Revenues – To Make Classified Paid

Sulekha a commerce search engine and classified site would soon become paid service, till now they are offering free classified but they shall continue to offer free classifieds as well (Check comments) for c2c segment and charging for only jobs and real estate segments in b2c segment.
The move would be fully implemented in 6 months [...]

Naukri, Jeevansaathi, Sulekha, Financial Express & Makemytrip Go Mobile Via Spicetele's Mobisoc Mitr

Naukri, Jeevansaathi, Sulekha, Financial Express & Makemytrip Go Mobile Via Spicetele’s Mobisoc Mitr

Spice Televentures has announced the launch of a new venture in mobile software called Mobisoc Technology Pvt. Ltd. Mobisoc’s vision is to enable rich internet experience on all mobile phones. Part of the MK Modi Group and led by chairman Dilip Modi mobisoc has already announced a number of tie ups with leading web players [...]

Sridhar B Of Sulekha.com talks about Local Commerce, Career Builder Tie up, Competition & Expansion Plans

Sridhar B Of Sulekha.com talks about Local Commerce, Career Builder Tie up, Competition & Expansion Plans

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 [...]

Sulekha.com Extends Local Search Services To 20 Tier II & III Cities - Revamps Site

Sulekha.com Extends Local Search Services To 20 Tier II & III Cities – Revamps Site

Sulekha.com the yellow pages and classifieds portal (funded By NVP) which also boasts of a sizeable NRI community has announced its plans to roll out local search services to 20 Tier II & III cities. With this oll out Sulekha.com will establish its city-specific search services in 28 cities in India. The cities that Sulekha [...]

CareerBuilderIndia To Power Jobs On Sulekha.com

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Well they say if you can’t beat them then join them! CareerbuilderIndia seems to be taking that approach in India where it is possibly the latest big player entrant in the cluttered job site market where every one from startups to big media houses have their own job sites. So given the situation the path that CareerBuilderIndia seems to be taking is the one where tieups with large portals and online properties which have good traction seems to be the strategy. So they have gone ahead and tied up with sulekha.com to power the jobs section at Sulekha.

A Look at Yulop’s City Events – An Online Events Platform. A few insights into how it can be coupled with LBS

Yulop, a Banglore focussed vertically structured search engine has just launched CityEvents an online events platform for its pilot city.
 

 
 
Yulop plans to provide “in-depth event information on present and future events” for people in Bangalore, said Sridhar G, CEO, Yulop.
 

 
 
While part of this is not too impressive, because it’s simple geo tagging, there [...]

Sulekha Launches Book Series. 2 Books to Be Published Every Month

Sulekha.com has just executed and launched a series called the ‘Sulekha Book Series’. This apparently has been in talks for a while.
 
 
 
Quite simply, what it does is rewards the best bloggers in Sulekha by publishing a book featuring their best work. Each book has a theme, sketches and goes to sale on Indiaplaza.in (and Sulekha.com). Moving forward, 2 Books [...]

Sulekha Targets Next Year For IPO

Sulekha.com which was funded last year for 10 million dollars by Norwest Venture Partners has now aiming to go IPO by next year. We had earlier covered similar plans of travel portals and also other classifieds players who are also looking at going IPO.
 
Sulekha is expecting to do revenues of $30 million (about Rs 120 [...]

More ads on Mobile – Sulekha Classifieds Go Mobile!

Just the other day I blogged about sms advertising and display ads by webaroo and msn and questioned whether users would develop a blind spot to such ads in the future. Its seems the trend is to go mobile be it sms advertising, display advertising or the newest one which is classifieds advertising.
 
Sulekha.com which has [...]

Online and Mobile Local Search spreading its wings – Onyomo, Burrp, Sulekha and Mkhoj in the race..

Local search has been a category which has seen tremendous traction and growth in terms of startups venturing into this space in the last one year. So its no surprise that even google launched its own local search service recently.
Lets see who all are doing what on the mobile and online local search space.
Onyomo [...]