http://ileher.com Catching the Internet wave in India Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:29:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Morpheus Venture Partners aims to provide mentorship and advice to early stage startups. We recently got a chance to speak with the founders Sameer Guglani and Nandini Hirianniah. Here is the transcript: How are you different from a typical seed/angel investor? MVP is a currently only a Business Advisory Firm. We have ... http://ileher.com/2008/11/03/qna-with-morpheus-venture-partners/ Here is a great opportunity to tell your story of the challenges you faced and how you tackled them while doing business in an underserved market. I am sure there are a lot of entrepreneurs in India who might have a story or two that they can tell. Call for entries ... http://ileher.com/2008/09/23/do-you-have-a-story-to-tell/ With US economy taking a big hit with subprime mortgage and credit crunch, concerns of oil and election not helping either, everyone in India is talking about what does US recession mean for them. A very timely piece from our guest contributor Ranjith Pavithran. Ranjith is founder of the web ... http://ileher.com/2008/09/14/how-indian-companies-can-build-their-brand-during-recession-20/ We spoke to Yusuf Motiwala from TringMe.com recently. The conversation covered various aspects including the technology involved, the revenue model, funding and staffing. iLeher: How did TringMe come about? Yusuf: We were looking to build a Voice 2.0 platform. This was the TringSwitch that we were planning to push to enterprises so ... http://ileher.com/2008/03/30/tringmecom-convergence-calling/ Yes I know, things have been slow at iLeher for some time. As Vivek pointed out earlier, the team members have been busy individually in their own stuff. Anyways,`I wanted to assure our audience that we are not fading away. The Internet activity in Indian space is as buzzing as ... http://ileher.com/2008/02/11/revisiting-some-old-favorite-topics-ecommerce-and-web20/ I wrote about VAKOW earlier and how much I liked their interface; but I could never use it to forward these awesome jokes to my friends in India. This new year I wanted to wish family/friends in India through SMS. I wanted to do the same thing around Diwali. Every ... http://ileher.com/2008/01/08/vakow-is-not-international-good-it-is-social/ I have been approving some interesting comments on our earlier posts. But I have seen that they do not usually stir interesting conversation. If the comment is a direct question to the company/people mention in the post or some earlier comment, they usually don't get replies. We do show the ... http://ileher.com/2008/01/06/interesting-comments-older-posts/ Its time to take a look at my 10 predictions for 2007 before I can welcome 2008. Here is what I think how things shaped against my predictions. I will put (*) in front of the prediction number where a single (*) means not worth talking about in 2007 to ... http://ileher.com/2007/12/31/analyzing-my-2007-predictions/ On "web-to-store" shopping behavior Research by Kapston.com, an Internet business consulting firm in association with GadgetsGuru.com and HolidayHangouts.com on products listed online and websites in India indicates that people spend 10 - 20% more on products they don’t research online. Indian consumers are embracing Internet increasingly to research products, before making a ... http://ileher.com/2007/11/14/guest-post-by-ranjith-pavithran-founder-of-web-consulting-firm-kapston/ I cannot stress the title enough. I wrote about SMS forwarding back in January. Here is an excerpt from the post "sms backup and storage". "- Service should be dirt cheap, almost free. This needs innovation at multiple levels.  - Service should be transparent to the end user. Something like automatic backup at ... http://ileher.com/2007/11/02/vakow-is-all-about-execution/