I hope this isnt true for Indian entrepreneurs! Internet Entrepreneurs Are Like Professional Athletes, They Peak Around 25
I have made a lot of mistakes in life. One in particular that I remember was during the early days of StudyNation. The product had not had a good start (we had launched as StudyTimes.com). Our SEO strategy hadn’t worked as well as we thought. We had to shut down the site and relaunch as [...]
Anyone who tracks the Internet space (which doesnt meant FB, btw) would have read Danny Sullivan’s article on how Bing is Cheating and Copying search results from Google. This is brilliant! Not so much for the fact that Bing does this, but for the fact that this is possibly the first time that Google has [...]
Paid clicks increased by 18% over corresponding quarter, but CPC increased only 4%. Which could be interpreted several ways! Eric Schmidt steps down as CEO and Larry takes over! Sergey, the nerd, still remains beind the scenes. All of which could be interpreted several ways! Focus for the next 10 years will be mobile! No 2 ways [...]
The Internet has turned out to be an awesomely cost-effective (and no, that doesnt mean cheap. It means just that – Cost effective) medium of promoting oneself. Compared to other channels available, the Internet is far more measurable, controllable and reportable! I am not a big fan of print because it also serves as a [...]
So KK came up with this business plan (I feel bad for him, because he consults me on these multiple plans he has and I end up dismissing most of them! He must feel I am so full of myself!)
Lets buy bags from cheap production centers such as China and sell them in India
And how will we market them?
We will build a website!
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The problem is that most people out there (and KK is surely far advanced than most already) feel that creating a website is equivalent to sales and recognition. Its like in BSchool, whenever the prof asked, “Ok, so how will the product sell?” the answer was invariably almost always “we will advertise”
Doesnt work! Well, mostly!
I LOVE THE INTERNET! Writer Monica Gaudio discovers that one of her articles has been reprinted in a magazine named Cooks Source, without due credits and ofcourse without permission. She writes in to the Editor of the Magazine asking for an apology and (brilliant) a USD 130 donation to the Columbia School of Journalism. Judith [...]
Google launched its Music Search feature in India today. Such an elegant blend of collaboration, technology and customer delight! And at the same time, again disruptive in nature. Direct traffic loss for the music streaming sites, google acquires higher power through search and their argument – hey, we are only increasing discoverability! Double-edged! But neat!
Some lessons learnt from my experience of dealing with a hacked account! What to do to retrieve your GMail / Email account and what to do thereafter to protect your account. Early this morning, my GMail account was hacked into. I checked my mails as usual around 8am and then had to head straight for a meeting. [...]
Not to say that I wasnt happy with the iPad, but even Rakhi Sawant would realize that its not technically the most optimal product! In this size (and coming from Apple), one could have expected – a full-size keyboard, USB ports, Flash support, in-built drive, mouse support, webcam etc etc Am so glad the iPad [...]
I am tempted to say this is good news for SecondShaadi, but honestly, if the divorce was caused due to FB, there was a case for it right from the start…! FB would only be an excuse…not the cause…! Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims
move beyond image panorama….video panorama is here..!! Yellowbird has created a technology that captures video in a 360 degree format. Its awesome..because this is the closest one can get to being there and yet not being there… Watch the video to experience what they have made. The future excites me like anything…!
And this is the battle of the new age, Ladies and Gentlemen! Google vs. Newspaper (and not yet Rupert dude!) So it all started with Rupert suggesting that he will (or can, or whatever) block Newscorp Sites from being part of Google. Basically, stop Google from indexing them and thus not showing them in search [...]
Not that we didn’t know it…but its fascinating…and equally scary…to see how much of data has google stored through that one single username password of yours..! Gmail, Orkut, Reader, Search, Youtube, Alerts, GTalk…we dont realize how much of time we spend on Google products everyday and how all of those actions are being stored Google [...]
Am not surprised at this statistic…! Released by Comscore this Wednesday, the “Natural Born Clickers” research has some rather interesting revelations about the Internet and especially the clicks happening all across! While the statistics are only regarding image ads (and not search ads, which will surely throw up numbers different, maybe drastically different), it still [...]
Unfortunately, it isn’t straightforward if you wish to upgrade to Windows 7, and are currently running on Windows XP (which almost the entire world is!). The biggest difference (from a Windows Vista user currently) being that all your programs will have to be re-installed! Yup…all…! Thats your Office, iTunes, Picasa, GTalk, Skype…everything…!! Thats quite a [...]
IF this is true…this has got to be the sexiest thing ever! PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo. We present a system that composes a realistic picture from a simple freehand sketch annotated with text labels. The composed picture is generated by seamlessly stitching several photographs in agreement with the sketch and [...]
Flashback 2003! A concept named Gmail had launched and I was a strong Hotmail follower back then. But then, remember that those were days when there was no facebook, orkut, twitter and Mark Zuckerberg was still under-age (almost)! So moving email addresses was no big deal. It just meant an auto forward and it wasnt [...]
its human tendency to consider things that are free, as fishy! Consider yourself..in normal life. While almost all of us would jump in joy if someone offered their services free…would we also not have that edgy feeling “why would they do it for free…whats the fine print”. Cynicism is fundamental to the human nature Yet…its [...]
or maybe…there is someone who wants them to…get married! Matrimonial sites comprised the highest share of online advertising between June-August 2009! Followed by Travel and Education SecondShaadi has a big(!) role to play in this :)
