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The Entrepreneurship Summit 2010 by Ecell, IIT Bombay

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

E-Summit is the annual event of Ecell at IIT Bombay.

E-Summit 2010 focuses on the three E’s:
* Explore
* Evolve
* Enterprise

E-Summit will bring in some of the most enriching and enlightening panel discussions, workshops and interactive sessions with successful and distinguished entrepreneurs and corporates. For startups and entrepreneurs there will be parallel events like mentoring sessions and startup showcasing. The summit will also host the finals for EUREKA! 2009- Asia’s largest Business Plan competition.

Web: http://www.esummit.ecell.in
Date: 7th Feb, 2010
Venue: IIT Bombay

Organized by:
The Entrepreneurship Cell
SAC, IIT Bombay
Mumbai-400076
Phone No: (022) 25764044
Fax No: (022) 25768490
E-Mail: ecell@iitb.ac.in

Tags: ecell, esummit 2010, iit bombay, Startup
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13 Tips for creating a successful web business

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Thanks Vineesh for this insightful post.

Tips for creating a successful new online product

What to build
1. Build for someone specific: The worst possible market for a product is “small businesses on the web”.
2. Don’t be afraid of targeting a narrow niche: The smaller the niche, the lower the bar to success.
3. Solve a real problem that costs money: The easiest way to get someone to loosen their purse strings is to convince them that using your product will pay for itself.

How to build it
4. Test the market with a working prototype as soon as possible: Listen to your users — and, to do this, give them a chance to tell you.
5. Develop iteratively: Aim for the result of each iteration to be useful in and of itself, but keep each iteration as tiny as possible.
6. Get things right, and be decisive in correcting the wrongs: Don’t delay necessary change just because you’re already committed into a different direction.
7. Don’t spend the time correcting until you know what you’re aiming for: If you realise that you need to change the direction of the product significantly, figure out your new goals for before implementing the change.
8. Don’t let your programmers design the user interface: Make sure you have a gifted UI designer on your team.

Who to build it with
9. Make sure every member of the development team is passionate about the product: Build your product in-house, and make sure the team is fully bought into the concept and committed to make it a success.
10. Be sickeningly elitist about your development team and sickeningly inclusive about your users: It’s never the user’s fault, it’s always your product’s fault for not being clear and intuitive enough.
11. The best hiring strategy is to hire no one: You need to recruit a development team to work with you, not for you.
12. Include at least one target user on the development team: Survival is worth giving up equity to get a target user on your development team.
13. Ensure everyone on your development team understands the problem they’re solving: Embed your development team into the end-users’ environment — at least for a time.

Read complete post here.

Tags: online, Startup, vineesh, web business
Posted in Blog, Startup Ecosystem, Startup Toolkit | 2 Comments »

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.

Tags: Bangalore, Perfios, Startup
Posted in Hot Startup, New Product Release, News, Startup Review | 1 Comment »

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

Tags: Khelostocks, Startup, Stocks, Trading
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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.

Tags: Cricfeeds, Cricket, Startup
Posted in Hot Startup, New Product Release, News | No Comments »

Xtreme Startups team announces Startup Morning in Bangalore

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

“Start-up Morning/Evening” events are organized with the support and help from a lot of friends in the startup community. Previous editions of the event have been held Mumbai, Bangalore, Chandigarh and Pune. In all events we were more than houseful on the capacity, participation was intense and interesting discussions took place. Read coverage here.

Recently, these events are organized under the Xtreme Startups banner. Xtreme Startups is a Non-Profit initiative to support /promote entrepreneurship. This edition of Xtreme Startups is supported by NSCREL, Chitkara University , Morpheus Venture Partners (MVP) and Startupnews.in.

The first Xtreme Startup event was organized in Chandigarh a couple of weeks back, details

Date: 24 May, 2009 (Sunday)

Time: 10:00 am – 01:00 pm

Venue: North Pergola, NSCREL, IIMB, Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore 560076

Contact: Indus: indus[at]morpheusventure[dot]com, Vikas: info[at]startupnews[dot]in

Speakers: Three start-up founders will share their experiences of starting a venture, sustaining it and taking it to the next level.

Phanindra Sama, Founder & CEO www.redbus.in

Prateek & Nithya Dayal, Founders www.muziboo.com

Himanshu Khurana, Co-founder & CMO www.lifemojo.com

Audience: Start-up founders / entrepreneurs

Format

Event will be attended by 30-40 start-up founders / entrepreneurs
The event brings together Startup Founders to share experiences and interact with other start-ups in an informal manner
The other guests, like you, will typically be experienced entrepreneur / investor / a person from the start-up ecosystem
Participation is “invite only”, concentrated group of Startup Founders and others in the startup ecosystem
There is no fee for attending the event
Refreshments will be provided at the event

What will you gain from the event?

Opportunity to interact with others in the startup ecosystem
Share and learn from each others experiences in running businesses
Potential to meet a business partner, investor, employee, etc.
Opportunity to build a strong startup community

Please confirm your participation by commenting on this blog post. If you want to bring a guest or a fellow entrepreneur along, do let us know. You can also write to us at startupveda[at]gmail[dot]com

See you on Sunday!

Tags: Lifemojo, Muziboo, MVP, Redbus, Startup, Sunday Morning, Xtreme Startup
Posted in Hot Startup, Mentor, Startup Ecosystem, Startup Event | 5 Comments »