INDIA STARTUP SCENE
Review: Commonfloor.com
By : shabda
Who: Commonfloor.com
What: Private apartment communities, management tools and real estate listing.
Who: Sameer Jain, Lalit Mangal, Vikas Malpani
When: Since 2008
Funded by: Morpheus and more.
Revenues From: Advertisement, Lead generation, Property rental and sale listing. (*)
In Media: Toi, HT, Yourstory and more
My Take: Local social networking is a hard place to be in, the dynamics of social networks are aginst smaller and insular networks. I meet my RWA agent once a month to pay my CAM, so the value proposition of the tools is not immedietly obvious to me. But real-estate is a good place to ...
more info..Why I interview people?
By : shabda
I am a software engineer. I hate repeating myself. I hate doing work which others have done.
I hate repeating mistakes which others have already made and learnt from.
I want to learn from amazing people who "have been there, done that". I want to see far and so I need to stand on the shoulders of giants.
In next three months I want to talk to most of the startups mentioned in this Quora thread.
Interview with Pallav Nadhani of FusionCharts
By : shabda
Today we talk to Pallav Nadhani, founder of FusionCharts, a company building interactive flash charts and data visualization tools. He is also founder of Seeders, an angel investment firm.
Shabda: Would you tell us a bit about yourself. How did you get started? How has the journey so far been?
Pallav: I am a techie turned CEO. I started FusionCharts at the age of 17 in 2002. Before that, for 2 years, I worked as web developer in my dad's web design/development firm. That's where I developed a love for web technologies. Before that I was writing ...
more info..Lpad's second batch of remote internships starts
By : shabda
?L-pad, a remote mentoring/incubation program for early stage startups is launching their second batch. You can apply here. It is an interesting model where they take 4% equity in the company for providing mentoring and connections, but no funding.
Mohit, the founder of L-pad answered some questions for us.
Interview with Paras Chopra of Visual Website Optimizer
By : shabda
Today we talk to Paras Chopra of Wingify, who make A/B Testing Software, about his company, A/B testing and entrepreneurship. visualwebsiteoptimizer.com has been covered by Techcrunch and more and is used by some of the biggest (and smallest) companies including Microsoft and Rackspace.
Shabda: Would you tell us a bit about yourself? How did you get about interested in startups? How hard or fruitful has the journey been?
Paras: I had been interested in computers since my 9th grade when my dad brought home a PC. I remember playing with VB 6.0 and it was fun ...
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Review: Redbus.in
By : shabda
Who: redbus.in
What: Bus Booking
Who: Phanindra Sama
When: Since 2006
Funded by: Self, Profitable now.
Revenue: Commissions from each bookings
Big Idea: “Each bus operator is so small that he can’t build his own IT system, so I thought it would be a good ide
a to build a system for them,”
In Media: Dare, Forbes, Yourstory, and more
My take: Redbus needs no review. They started with an unproven idea and through their relentless execution of that idea have made them first choice for bus booking. I use them every time I want to book a ...
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