Comments on: Indian startups making a mark

By: hiten

hiten — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:06:45 +0000

Basab,

I am a regular reader of your blog. I quite enjoy all the thought provoking articles that you post.

A couple of days after I read your article about indian startups, I came across this interesting company from India which is actually competing with global dot coms ! (Serendipity I guess

It is Northgate Technologies, a Hyderabad company. It has two main products viz. Axill (something like Google Adsense) and Globe7 (something like YouTube + Skype combined).

Thanks,
Hiten

By: Aarti

Aarti — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:33:59 +0000

Came upon this blog a week or so ago, and was delighted. Basab, in response to your post about feedback on the blog (by which time I was not onto it yet), here goes:

1) If you have any views that you’d like to share on marginalised India catching up with mainstream (reservations or anything else) would be interested to read about them

2) Your deconstruction of a non business issue/ phenomenon that catches your interest makes really good reading, keep it coming (worth of a job, spelling bee etc)

3) Enjoyed reading the KANK post, admittedly mostly because I was curious about what someone like you thinks of it:-) But, if you’ve read Indian fiction (or any other actually) recently and liked it and have something to say about it, would like to know.

By: Tanmoy

Tanmoy — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:05:01 +0000

A bit of digression from the topic…

Cosmopod (www.cosmopod.com) is another interesting “Virtual Office” to check out. It provides a connection to a Linux Desktop. Its pretty interesting, but the only problem could be that you have to download a lightweight client to connect to it.

By: Sridhar Vembu

Sridhar Vembu — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 23:03:37 +0000

Basab,
Thanks for the kind words about Zoho. We will put up a history presentation about AdventNet/Zoho. We didn’t think anyone cared

Thanks,
Sridhar

By: Amit Ranjan

Amit Ranjan — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:11:12 +0000

Basab,

Thanks for dropping by Webyantra.

The term Indian startup or Indian product, (specially if it is web based)is quite hazy. I was confronted with this question when I started the blog. I chose to have a simple working definition and stay clear of the underlying nuances (http://www.webyantra.net/about/).

Will look forward to your treatment of the subject.

rgds

Amit Ranjan

By: Viral

Viral — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:57:31 +0000

Zoho had recently appeared in an article of Tech Entrepreneur in Business World.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:55:31 +0000

I want to attempt the question – “What is an Indian startup?”. It is easy to address this if we consider the country of registration alone. But in today’s world, with technology tools that cross timezones in realtime, geography alone cannot be the basis of classification. So, what could be the criterion that will clasiify a startup as ‘Indian’? Unfortunately, I cannot single any parameter that can answer this. I guess companies have no nationalities. Work is important. Label is not. So why waste the time? I give up.

But it is easier for me to think – “What is a startup?” Any new small company in a garage is not a startup. Any funded by a VC is not a startup. It may be a “copy of”, or “split of”, or “compulsion of”. Only when you have a new variety of a seed, you “start up”. My impression of “indian startups” is that they behave like rabbits. they are in a hurry to catch up with “someone, somewhere”.

By: Sadiq

Sadiq — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:04:36 +0000

Thanks for your review and feedback on Zoho. We have taken note of all your comments, and we will to add the required infomation that help our users to know about Zoho better and use it effectively.

Thanks,
Sadiq
http://blogs.zoho.com/