Proto.in is a startup event bringing together startups across India and help them showcase their wares before media, investors and other entrepreneurs. The 8th edition of Proto was conducted at the Great Lakes college of Management outside Mahabalipuram in Tamilnadu – though it was billed as a Chennai event (70 km away). It was in [...]

Most startups die and join the deadpool before they could see the daylights. Most startup entrepreneurs end up failing at some point of time in our lives and even the successful ones have come closer to death before bouncing back. A startup that survives long enough is the one that has a high chance of [...]

Here is a guest post by Angel Investor – Mukund Mohan. Say you are a stay-at-home-dad who wants to sell your own neat apparel designs online, or a creative mom who can make some excellent handicrafts at home. Now you are interested in setting up a storefront on the web so you can “get in [...]

Businesses which intend to get ahead of the competition have to innovate. Apart from adopting a couple of required techniques, methods, technologies and business practices they have to go beyond their status quo and innovate. Nevertheless, innovation simply cannot occur by accident. It requires consistent effort from the business leadership to set the tone and [...]

AuthorGen is a Chandigarh based startup that provides authoring solutions for e-learning. It has 2 major products – authorsstream that enables you to store and share presentations easily on the web, and conduct webinars, and authorpoint – to author interactive teaching content. AuthorStream has a feature to convert powerpoints to video or flash and download [...]

Innovation is important in every domain to be a pioneer in implementing new methodologies to gain from and in turn to take lead over competition by virtue of the results achieved through innovation. Social media is often seen as the foundation for promotion and internet marketing. It serves as a source of inbound links for [...]

Bubblecard is a customer loyalty card accepted by over 150 stores in Pune. It is a one person startup from somebody who is fresh out of college. It is a loyalty card with discounts ranging from 5-25% and costs about Rs. 50. The startup is very early in its life, but the concept is interesting [...]

A lot of us have ambitions to start our own restaurant. For some foodies it could be a nice hobby and for others it could be a profitable business if done well. The two most important things in a good restaurant business are a) right location b) right chef. These two makes or breaks any [...]

Sbuzz week 5 was about selling. We talked about the Zig Zaglar’s quote: Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. 8 Key  lessons on selling from the participants Here is the detailed transcript transcript-08-24 Image courtesy: Cartoonbank