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Perfios: A software application to manage personal finance

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Perfios, a Bangalore based startup, is introducing an innovative software application to manage personal finance in a Safe and Trusted environment and help users analyze and understand their finance in a simple, easy and secure way. Perfios was created by individuals who are backed by extensive years of experience in the software domain and are further backed by financial domain experts from various financial institutions.

The members of the Perfios think-tank have had long, successful stints at organizations leveraging the best-of-the-breed technologies to build intuitive, secure software applications for the Banking and Financial Services (BFS) sector. The founding team members have served as C-level executives in several multinational organizations and have been instrumental in setting up and managing global delivery teams. The members have also successfully transformed several start-up software companies into large, profit-making enterprises.

Who can benefit from Perfios?
Perfios is for anyone who wishes to solve the problem of managing wealth distributed among various asset classes and among various institutions. If you have bank accounts, credit cards, Mutual Funds, Equity etc with multiple institutions, how often have you felt that – ‘what if all of this could be accessed at one place?’ Perfios addresses exactly this aspect (and more!) and provides access across asset classes on one platform and in the process takes care of your other worries too!
Please do give it a whirl (www.perfios.com) and share your feedback.

Mnemonic Dictionary – Word Power Made Easy

Sunday, January 3rd, 2010

Mnemonic Dictionary (MD) helps in learning and remembering word and it’s meaning easily by providing memory aids (called mnemonics) for each word. Mnemonics connect to-be-remembered meaning of words with a systematic and organized set of images or words that are already firmly established in long-term memory and can therefore serve as reminder cues.

The website puts the vivid mental images and whacky imagination to use. For instance, the word “nefarious” which means “extremely wicked” may be very difficult to learn and use. The mnemonic they have used is that this word sounds like ne(nephew)+farious(furious),so your nephew is very furious or cruel or violent.

The Mnemonic Dictionary team is based in Hyderabad (India).

MD Team: Amit Aggarwal, Pritam Kumari, Prameela Jeppu, Arun Dubey, Himanshu Arora

Visit mnemonicdictionary.com to explore the service.

Startup Saturday at Bangalore ­- October Edition

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Theme – Online Retail

Startup Saturday is an initiative by Headstart to provide entrepreneurs in each city with a monthly community driven forum that is structured in agenda but open in discussions. A Startup Saturday provides a forum for entrepreneurs to discuss, present, network and learn from peers, prospective customers, adopters, partners and investors.

The fundamental idea is to have all parts of the innovation ecosystem interact with each other with high frequency and through rich conversation. We strongly believe that this would lead to faster evolution of the entire ecosystem.

Time and Venue:­
Saturday – 10th October, 2009 10:00 hrs – 13:00 hrs
Venue: NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore

Agenda:
Demo 1:  FlipKart.com
Demo 2:  Picsquare.com
Lightning Pitches:
Panel Discussion “Opportunities & Challenges in Online Retail”
o  Vitheeswaran from Indiaplaza.in
o  Vijay from WisdomTap
o Vijay from Infibeam.com
Snacks and Networking.

Visit http://network.headstart.in/projects/startup-saturday-bangalore/project-home or http://headstart.in/ for further details.

Stocks Khelo with Khelostocks.com

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Khelostocks is a portal built around educating and empowering retail investors in India. The product helps budding investors to experience the dynamics of real time stocks trading on a zero cost and zero risk basis. Novice investors can learn the basic of trading and test their trading fundamentals and techniques. Not only this, khelostocks is also an investor community portal that helps investors to network and collaborate to learn from their peers who are at different stages of their learning curve.

The concept might pickup good traction considering the fact that there are people who are actually left with no money to trade :)

How does it works?

Every client, on signing up, is provided with virtual one million rupees. Real NSE market data of more than 600 stocks listed on NSE is streamed into the Khelostocks. A user can place buy or sell order on both intraday and delivery basis in the Khelostocks trading systems using the virtual cash provided to him. Order can be placed at both limit and market rates. Now as the price desired by the client is reached in the spot market his outstanding order is materialized and client becomes an owner or seller of the scrip as the case may be. As long as the order remains outstanding in the Khelostocks order book, corresponding buying power is blocked for the client. On buy trade, money is deducted from his cash assets and an initial margin is charged. In case of a sell trade money is credited to his cash assets. Client’s net profit, loss and net assets are updated to his Account summary. Hence the client is playing with real time stock values
and trading techniques but with virtual money.

For more info visit: www.khelostocks.com

CricFeeds: Live White Label Syndication Service

Friday, June 12th, 2009

As the name suggests, Cricfeeds is a startup in Cricket domain. With T20 world cup going on, the cricket fever is on all time high.
According to their website: Cricfeeds enables News, Entertainment and Sports portals to launch Cricket channel in a transparent white label fashion.

The site has got good traction with Alexa Rank as 26,271. But it looks that they have worked a little on their public pages including the ignored contactus page.

http://www.cricfeeds.com/cricfeeds_customer-service.html

http://www.cricfeeds.com/cricfeeds_privacypolicy.html

http://cricfeeds.com/terms_of_service.html

All these pages have the same title tag saying “Cricfeeds.com — Terms of service”

Well it’s good that they have got the basics right with a reasonably good product.

Bing, the decision engine

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Microsoft claims Bing to be a decision engine doing much more than search engine. Check out the public release by 3rd June (www.bing.com)
Bing

Official Press Release :
Bing Official Press Release