Category: mobile

  • prasoonk

    Coffee with Ram Shriram

    Ram Shriram (Shaerpalo Ventures profile) was in Bangalore for a day. He packed in 2 events at [24]/7’s new campus on Outer Ring Road. At the first event title In Conversation with Ram Shriram – Managing Partner, Sherpalo Ventures organised by iSpirt, he answered queries from scores of entrepreneurs. He wants more higher education institutions […]

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    Offline Product Search Engine into Junglee

    Amazon had forayed into India as online product comparison avatar, Junglee. Online shops had listed the product prices over there. Now, it has started showing offline shops for mobile and TV products in the following cities: Bangalore, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon. It just lists store addresses and phone number, but doesn’t show […]

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    TastyKhana receives strategic investment from DeliveryHero

    [Updated on 13 June] So, Tastykhana has announced on their blog about receiving 5m reportedly valued at 15-18m. TastyKhana (website) is a food home delivery company having a presence in 6 cities across India. According to reliable sources, it has received strategic investment from either Global Founders Capital or directly from DeliveryHero, a European company […]

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    Startup Failures

    Startups and Failures are almost synonymous. They are like 2 sides of the same coin. Some statistics exist, which show that a really high percentage of startups don’t make it beyond first year. If were to go by percentage of startups, which receive funding, that would be a lowly number as well. I recall hearing […]

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    NVP & PeepalSys bring together a panel of start-ups on building silicon valley culture in India

    Nexus Venture Partners (NVP) is an early and growth stage VC fund looking at Indian start-ups going after global market esp. US as well as US companies looking to enter India. PeepalSys follows Y-Combinator model into talent recruitment space. So, when both of these put together an extremely relevant topic of bringing Silicon Valley culture […]

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    Local Restaurant Food Festival Discovery on Website and Mobile: Case of Lemongrass Mumbai

    I had been to Lemon Grass, Malad West yesterday and enjoyed 30% off on ala carte menu on some (Rs. 2000/- ) minimum food purchase. We just went there because of preference of the host, but for a neutral and adventurous person like me, it’d have been nice, if there I could fish out such […]

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    Vegetarian Bengali Food festival backlash on Twitter

    So, I saw an ad last week of Speciality’s Oh! Calcutta, Mumbai running on a vegetarian food festival. I had been to Oh! Calcutta in Shashtri Nagar, Andheri West a couple of years ago and had only tasted fish and rice. Nearby Hangla’s stall on Lokhandwala offered chicken biryani mixed with egg in a special […]

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    Facebook Director Jocelyn Goldfein in Techfest on newsfeed

    Techfest 2013 running on 3-5 Jan at IIT Mumbai has an excellent lecture series. Since I work at Justdial Malad West, I had to travel 16 kms to catch this lecture. I don’t regret a bit, as I got insights into the product management best practices behind world’s most engaged user base, if not in […]

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    Grocery eCommerce heats up in Mumbai with big daddy BigBasket launching

    Existing players Groceries, FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) are moving online in this second wave of internet. During first wave of internet era (1995-2001), there was a WebVan, which closed down within 2 years, not without burning $ 1-2B of investors’ money. Post 2002, eGrocery made recovery in other parts of world and there were […]

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    Mobile and Social enterprise

    Taking your Enterprise Mobile is no longer an option, but a necessity Mobile adoption is increasing in industries – healthcare, construction, govt. Field workers can download a part of workflow offline. When reconnected, it’d synchronize with the backend application. CIO 77% plan to use personal devices to access company data and applications. Deploy more than […]