Angel Investing In India Is Broken; Phone Makers Have Something to Learn from Xolo

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Only 5% of Indian SMEs have a Web Presence: Report Web-enabled small and medium enterprises boasted revenues 51% higher, had 49% more profit, and customer bases 7% broader than their offline-only counterpart says a new report compiled by Nathan Associates, which has been jointly released by FICCI and Google. . Read More Angel Investing In India Is Broken, It Needs To Be Fixed Fast Alok Mittal of Canaan Partners raised a red flag about India’s Angel investing scene yesterday: It needs to be fixed fast. . Read More Television Network NDTV’s E-commerce Portal For Apparels & Accessories Launched Media company NDTV has launched an e-commerce portal for ethnic wear targeted at the Indian diaspora. . Read More Getting Branding Right: Phone Makers Have Something to Learn from Xolo “What phone is that?”"Xolo”"Ah – the Intel phones. Which one? How’s it?”That, and the ads and some of the results Google displays when you look for “Intel mobile” or “Intel phone”, tell an interesting tale.Just check for the number of times “Xolo” shows u . Read More Soundice Lets You Listen to All Your Favorite Tunes Ad Free Soundice is a music player application accessible via the web browser, that users can use for free, without any limits and in-ads. It has readymade radio chart playlists and also gives you a way to create your own. Perfect for queuing up music for a long day. . Read More What IITs and Others Can Learn from BITS Pilani’s Successful Startup Machine “Unlike IITs, BITS is not always about education, but also about all round development and better exposure. The people also come with strong analytical background, to add to this development, there is strong peer pressure and competition.” . Read More Tamil Nadu Government To Procure 5.65 Lakh More Laptops For Students Recently the Uttar Pradesh(U.P) Government was criticised for dumping undistributed laptops in godown, and letting them rot by exposing them to dust and rain water. Only 79,000 of the total procured laptops had been distributed and the remaining are rotting away in the godowns. . Read More Private Institutions to Get Access to High Performance Computing With National Knowledge Network The government is planning to allow private institutions to plug into the National Knowledge Network, to make access to high perfomance computing and shared resources cheaper. . Read More Wikipedia Zero is Now In India; Access Wikipedia for Free From Aircel Wikimedia Foundation has launched its initiative for enabling free mobile data access for Wikipedia, called Wikipedia Zero in India. The non profit organization has signed a 3 year agreement with Indian telecom operator Aircel for this initiative . . Read More DNA of India’s Tech Entrepreneurs: Grey Hairs, Blue Chip Degree Holders and Returnee Founders What are Indian entrepreneurs like? Do they have shiny degrees to show off? Are there a lot of grey hairs? Are they risk averse? Early stage venture firm Canaan Partners has brought out some data which gives us interesting insights into these questions. Here are the findings based on a survey by Venture Intelligence of… . Read More No Response from Government Keeps Prizes Away from Google Mapathon Winners Google has sent out an email to Google India Mapathon participants stating that is unable to announce the winners of the contest that was due on July 23rd because of security concerns expressed by the Survey of India (SOI). It has also displayed the letter on the Mapathon site. . Read More Got Networking Blues at Events? Get Procialize Procialize, a product of Indian School of Business’s (ISB) one credit ‘Planning an Entrepreneurial Venture’ course, is a cloud based event networking platform .The platform, incubated at ISB, will help attendees network and interact before, during and after an event, through its portal. . Read More Tata Group Likely to Acquire Indiaplaza The Tata Group is in talks to acquire Indiaplaza, one of the oldest running e-commerce ventures in the country. . Read More TaxiForSure Wants To Be The MakeMyTrip of Taxi Business: Here’s What They Are Up To With a total of $4 mn to back them, the Taxiforhave set out on an ambitious plan in a crowded space. . Read More Bangalore based Lytkraft helps global startups to manage their supply chain Lytkraft, a Bangalore based startup is focusing on a different niche all together. Instead of home-grown brands, it targets startups that are based abroad but have suppliers base in India. . Read More Team NextBigWhat/p> Unsubscribe here