Though Social media has been around for almost a decade now, 2011 is when it seems to have come of age. It is no longer the place where cool kids meet over to discuss about lovely cats. Social media is significant enough to cause revolutions and topple governments. Let us look at some of the [...]

We have been talking about startups for so long, but a lot of you have asked a questions – how to do you define a startup. Do all young companies come under the startup tag? Or does it include on the tech companies? There has been considerable debate on this in the startup world. Wikipedia [...]

Most of us geeks had a dream – how awesome would it be if we can get a sandwich by typing on our linux terminal. This is immortalized by the XKCD comic piece above. Now, researchers from Technical University at Munich are bringing this to reality. Without any human intervention the robots were able to [...]

3 random observations about the Silicon valley. Cynics would argue based on these observations that The biggest assumption is that startups need to be complete enterprises – with ability to stay on their own, with revenues, sales departments, and so forth. I believe that assumption need to change. Startups need not be always thought of [...]

Last week, research firm ZenithOptmedia has made available a few statistics. Here is the brief summary. In 2014, The total spending in advertisements will be $541b of which Internet alone will account for $113 billion. That is a jump of $40 billion (i.e. the extra revenue = Google + Yahoo + Facebook put together) from [...]

I have been doing some search on the Venture capital stats from National Venture Capital Association and here are the findings. Contrary to some reports, the stats show that the Silicon Valley venture system is still healthy – investing majority of the money in early stage companies, showing risk appetite. The number of deals is just [...]

Startups tend to move in packs – we follow a trend based on the success stories. We get inspired sometimes and sometimes we imitate. Trends are like ocean currents, if we swim with them it can help us get to our destinations faster. Plenty of successful companies including Apple, GM, Microsoft, Google were formed following [...]

Business model defines what a business does and how it makes money doing that. In this post, we will see various popular business models used by modern businesses. Traditional business models Create a physical good, a service or a virtual good – movie, music This is the most fundamental business model. Create a product or [...]

Business model defines what a company does and how it makes money doing that. While there is a lot of talk on business models in startup & venture circles, there is very little study on the various models that a startup could adopt to make money. Though there are 100s of ways to make money [...]