The Next Web

JULY 13, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest column by Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for internet startups at his blog Platform Thinking. Amazon is entering India. In effect, Amazon knew all along that there was a significant ‘First-mover Disadvantage’ to launching in India.

India 126

India Marketing Non-Compete Vertical 126

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Increasingly it became difficult to tell any system integration company apart and there was a whole new breed of competitors in the market helping companies build Internet businesses. Andersen had lost its long-time CEO, George Shaheen, was hemorrhaging staff and wasn’t exactly known as being an Internet pioneer.

Turkey 302

Turkey Differentiation IP Technical Review 302

Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Simplistic Definitions: Report Claim: 10% of people wearing clothes connected to the internet. Report Claim: Over 50% of internet traffic to homes to be for appliances & devices. Report Claim: Over 50% of internet traffic to homes to be for appliances & devices. Reality: We are already wearing technology.

Technology 48

Technology South America Indonesia Africa 48

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But if youre in the US for example, then your development cost will be anything from 5-10 times higher than offshoring to India or Eastern Europe. Our offshore development team is in India and the result has been excellent because we followed a disciplined process in both selection and ongoing development. Nice article.

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

After creating many successful start-ups- from internet fashion companies to home market businesses- I spent several years researching a category that intrigued me from a health-standpoint. I had taken photographs with film cameras as a child in India, but I never had any particularly good equipment. Image Credit: Gail Levy.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

Brandanew

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Mobile internet is seeing a huge growth. Myntra in India) are in fact moving to a mobile only model where they purely exist as apps and not as traditional websites. You can often not hide behind PR notices if you create something that’s atrocious! Digital marketing trends in 2016 will continue to have a mobile focus.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing SEO B2B 100

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

At Blurb, we’ve built an Internet platform for people to produce their own bookstore-quality books. In March of 2009 EliteEditing.com launched, and I would run back and forth to an Internet café five blocks from my office to manage work coming through and to take business calls. That’s it. That’s what we do.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Australia Technical Review Community 48

K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

You would think this is easy in the days of the Internet, but you’ll be surprised that just typing a query into Google doesn’t always yield the results you’re looking for. advertising) on Facebook, Twitter, Google, and be preceded by a press and PR campaign to try and get coverage in the relevant press outlets and blogs.

Software Review 48

Software Review Forecast Portfolio Distribution 48

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

After all, high-quality open source software is free, the cloud makes computer power far less expensive, and anyone with an Internet connection can learn Ruby and CSS. And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. million in venture financing. Thanks for the great post!

Startup 79

Startup Social Media RSS Social Network 79

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Here’s the rub: in consumer internet (and often enterprise), if your founding team doesn’t have the chops to get a prototype of your product out and in the hands of a blogger to test and write about, you might as well save yourself a lot of pain – you’re not going anywhere. I don’t know any developers. I need money for the servers.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. Too much PR, too early. the hardware ecosystem in India) and internal reasons (e.g. Title: The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. It’s usually hard to figure out who to meet and there’s a range of events within the events, entertainment cocktails, Pr events in restaurants nearby, but there’s no easy way to find out about them. Is it big enough? It was hard.

Aggregator 84

Aggregator Caching PHP 84

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. You sell a product that requires an internet connection and a web browser for access, which means your prospects are online! internet. (6). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. anecdotes. (13).

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Excellent account of how the Internet grew the porn industry & now threatens to cripple it – [link]. India is a remarkable country. Interesting … An AI system that can hear what you’re typing – [link]. Google’s Elemental API Periodic Table – [link]. Laptop History in Photos – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. If your desire was to make yourself look like an ignorant internet troll … I believe you have succeeded.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Now your crappy resume and low-grade references become a strength: youre obviously not wasting money on marketing. They must be thinking "if its costing people their jobs, it must really work.

San Francisco 89

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Ruby Lean 89

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Dont blame the programmer if your internet platform or softwares not selling itself. And writing a step-by-step walk-through might be important if you outsource your work to India or China where they are used to work by direction and nothing more, or if dealing with a 15 year old kid, programming from his parents basement.

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. The Internet, Visualized In Patent Sketches crowdspring.co/1LdMG3B. Meet The Most Powerful Force In The Star Wars Universe: The Man Who Makes The Toys crowdspring.co/1LdLnSk. How Baseball Is Competing With Apple and Google for Analytics Talent crowdspring.co/1gRDaH0. 1gRti01.

Small Business 48

Small Business Design St. Louis Social Media 48

crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2012

How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet (and how integration kills innovation) – [link]. India Set to Overtake US as Facebook’s Largest Market – [link]. Think Twice Before Starting a Company – [link]. Events for women programmers in Chicago – [link]. Billion – [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94