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Internet trends in India 2010
OCC Delhi Meet Jan09
I never tried drugs but I doubt they if they could be as intoxicating as talking with a bunch of passionate wannepreneurs ( wannabee entrepreneurs) and hackers on a lazy Saturday evening.
Ok, may be that was a little hyperbolic analogy , but I think it very well sumup experience I had in OCC meet last Saturday, where I joined 7 other wannepreneurs to talk on topics ranging from busines model in startups to startup ecosystem in India.
First thing that draw my attention was the confidence and enthusiasm displayed by first year undergraduate students (Akhshay and Apoorv). I was impressed with their strong understanding of web and passionate interest in startups ( doing own stuff , own way) . There is a revolutionary change in the attitude of young graduates. At my time the only objective of graduating candidate was to work as hard as possible to get straight A’ ( a honors degree to be precise) and then hunt for highest paying ‘MNC’ job. At that time nobody even talk about doing startups. And here is these guys talking RoR and startups in the very first year of ther graduation.
Another thing that I find rather unique and interesting was their agnostic attitude toward ‘business’ part of startup. They were representing first crop of true indian hacker who love coding amd creating cool programs and who are least bothered about job or money. This herald a sea change in Indian startup ecosystem in next couple of years.
We were join by an veteran entrepeur from Nepal , Ujwal Thapa, who is managing his web business in Nepal from past 7 years. He is looking for partners to expand is bussines in Delhi. Talking like a sage he kept conversation grounded and shared some really inspiration stuff on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship.
There were three guys who left there secured job this month (yeah you wanted to know if this is the right time to start a venture. Now you know, it is 🙂 ) to start their venture. Ajay and two of his friends are all set to start a new venture in real estate domain. Atul is looking forward to do a startup in education domain.
Quotable quotes:
“Entrepreneur are crazy people. We do not do stuff just for money. We do startups becoz it is the only thing we understand and love doing. Nobody understand this including our family and friends.”
Ujwal Thapa
“Life is short and we live once so lets do things we love. ”
Ujwal Thapa
“In internet business we first build product and then build business around this. This is how facebook got created ”
Apoorv Khatreja
“Business main thoda baoot compromise to chalta hai.”
Atul kumar Bucha
“Indian startup community is growing at very fast rate specially in banglore. If you have right idea and right team you can get angel and VC money”
Ajay Yadav.
“You can start a business with passion and idea. Money may not come into mind as motivator. But when you have 100 people working for you and who depend on you and your startup ‘s survival, ‘business’ part of startup kicks in”
Manish Malik
“Why you are so much into money and business. lets create stuff we like. Business will come later”
Akshay Gupta
Venue : CCD (in front of sindhia house) ,Connaught place Delhi
Date & Time : 31 Jan 4.30 – 7.30 PM
Agenda : Indian startup community, Web (business +models)
Participants
Manish Malik Product Manager @Mobisoc www.mobisoc.com
Ujawal Thapa 7+ year vetern runnning web business from Nepal. Looking for alliance in Delhi to bring some of the web business in India.
Ajay Yadav NSIT 2007, Trilogy, FlightRaja. Left job this month to start own web startup in real estate business domain.
Akshay Gupta First year CS student @ MSIT and wannabe hacker.
Apoorv Khatreja First year IT student @DCE. Web developer and wannabe hacker.
Atul Kumar Bucha software Engineer @ Aricent Looking forward to start own venture in education domain.
Satpal Parmar (yeah that me).
CIIE launched iAccelerator
CIIE (an initiative of IIM A to foster entrepreneurship and innovation) have launched iAccelerator a program to incubate web start-ups.Yes. They heartly accept it as a clone of Y-combinator.
Main attractions of program:
a)Target audience are young IT professionals, students or web-developers young IT professionals, students or web-developers .
b)its a 3 month program. Two months for prototyping and 1 month of marketing.
c)8k stipend for participants.
d) CIIE will provide computers with connectivity (if you don’t carry a laptop of your own), an office space, mentoring, networking and accommodation at IIMA.
d)In case you are interested apply before 20th April.
Requirements:
A brilliant “out of box web/mobile related idea” and the ability to build a prototype around that idea in 2 months with a team of max 3-4 people.
New Synovate AsiaBUS study on Asia Pacific Web 2.0 markets
Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions commissioned Synovate to conduct a survey via its AsiaBUS Service. It aimed to gauge the size of the blogging/social networking market as well as to examine usage habits in Asia Pacific.
The study covered the following 10 markets: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand*. A total of 11,306 people aged 15-64 were interviewed during December 2006, projected to a universe of 187 million.
Results are not very surprising. Korea with his world best broadband network , China & Taiwan with their highet PC penetration (due to low hardware cost) are leading web 2.0 markets.One area where they are legging behind is blogging.This can be explained in term of language barrier.I doubt if totalitarian government and lack of freedom of expression in China have any discouraging effect on bloggers from China.
India is far behind in social networking and IM services but did surprisingly well in bloging front. Low pc penetration coupled with poor broadband infrastructure make India a comparatively smaller web 2.0 market.
Can we say democracy rocks 🙂
Happy Independence day India !!!!!!!!
Source: advertising.microsoft.com
Interviews with Founders
One of the best way to get perspective on a product,service or field is to have a face to face talk with the founders or expert behind the that particlure product and service.Interviews provide great opportunity to have founders prespective on product and his area of endeavour.
Today I find this great collection of interveiws of founders of of most talked about web services providers.I am sure we will found lots of insight in areas product development,team building,marketing and product design from these interveiws.
Alex Giron, founder CSSBeauty interviewed by SEOmoz
Alexander Kirk, founder of Blummy interviewed by SEOmoz
Amy Bohutinsky, of Zillow interviewed by SEOmoz
Benjamin Bejbaum, founder of Dailymontion interviewed by SEOmoz
Bill O’Donnell, founder of Kayak interviewed by Emily Chang
Chris Hughes, founder of Facebook interviewed by SEOmoz
Christoph Janz, of Pageflakes interviewed by Emily Chang
Christopher Janz, founder of Pageflakes interviewed by SEOmoz
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist interviewed by InfoWorld
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist interviewed by Netsquared
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist interviewed by SEOmoz
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist interviewed by SFgate
Dave Pell, founder of Rollyo interviewed by SEOmoz
Dave Pell, founder of Rollyo interviewed by Technosight
David Sifry, founder of Technorati interviewed by Guy Kawasaki
David Sifry, founder of Technorati interviewed by SEOmoz
Eric Costello, Client Development Lead for Flickr interviewed by Adptivepath
Eric Rodenbeck, Mike Migurski and Tomas Apodaca, founders of Mappr interviewed by Emily Chang
Garret Heaton, founder of HipCal interviewed by SEOmoz
Garrett Camp, Co-founder of StumbleUpon interviewed by Centernetworks
Garrett Camp, Co-founder of StumbleUpon interviewed by ReadWriteWeb
Geoffrey Arone, co-founder of Flock interviewed by ZDnet
Jacob DeHart, founder of Threadless interviewed by Folksonomy
Jason Fried, founder 37signals interviewed by Web20show
Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Creative Director of Threadless interviewed by Juxaviews
Jen Mazzon, founder of Writely interviewed by SEOmoz
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia interviewed by SearchEngineLand
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia interviewed by Goodexperience
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia interviewed by Wikinews
Joshua Schachter, founder of Del.icio.us interviewed by Rands In Repose
Joshua Schachter, founder of Del.icio.us interviewed by ZDnet
Justin LaFrance, founder of StumbleUpon interviewed by SEOmoz
Kevin Burton, founder of Tailrank interviewed by Emily Chang
Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson, founders of Digg interviewed by Talkcrunch
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg interviewed by Philoneist
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg interviewed by Playlistmag
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg interviewed by ZDnet – part 1
Kevin Rose, founder of Digg interviewed by ZDnet – part 2
Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn interviewed by Sleepyblogger
Konstantin Guericke, co-founder of LinkedIn interviewed by SEOmoz
Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines interviewed by Bloxpert
Mark Fletcher, founder of Bloglines interviewed by Searchviews
Martin Stiksel, founder of Last.fm interviewed by SEOmoz
Mike Davidson, founder of NewsVine interviewed by SEOmoz
Mike Reining, Co-founder of BlinkList interviewed by Emily Chang
Mike Tatum, founder of Wayfaring interviewed by SEOmoz
Nick Wilson, Co-founder Performancing interviewed by Centernetworks
Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable interviewed by Netsquared
Robert Kalin, founder of Etsy interviewed by SEOmoz
Ron Hornbaker, founder of Propsmart interviewed by SEOmoz
Sam Shillace, founder of Writely interviewed by Emily Chang
Seth Godin, founder of Squidoo interviewed by Emily Chang
Seth Sternberg, founder of Meebo interviewed by SEOmoz
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, founders of Reddit interviewed by Talkcrunch
Tariq Krim and Florent Fremont, founders of Netvibes interviewed by Emily Chang
Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media interviewed by ReadWriteWeb – Part 1
Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media interviewed by ReadWriteWeb – Part 2
Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media interviewed by ReadWriteWeb – Part 3
Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, founders of Myspace interviews by Spiegel
Various Web 2.0 founders interviewed by Michael Arringtoncourtesy: Julian Paling
Web Trends Map
Information Architects has released their 2nd Web Trends Map Awesome collection of all the visible web brands especially Web 2.0, marked according to their category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective.