Archive for the ‘Start Ups’ Category
Startup Review: divorce360.com
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: December 3, 2008
Approximately 1.3 million couples divorce each year. Divorce360.com was created to help people contemplating, going through or recovering from divorce. Their goal is [...]
Startup Review: Wigix.com
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: December 3, 2008
Wigix is the new way to buy and sell on-line. It’s a socially-driven marketplace, where you can communicate with like-minded collectors and traders. Get a live pricing history for each item and negotiate prices intelligently. Social communication encourages informed buying. This is the actual business description from Wigix.com. Well, that sounds like eBay, right?
Ever since [...]
Startup question of the week: which is the most important role in a startup?
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: December 2, 2008
Is it the CEO, CTO, COO, CIO, CMO, CSO?
This is a loaded question. One must understand the responsibilities of each of these roles first. Do you know the difference between a CIO & CTO, Sales & marketing?
Your comments (or see the following poll) are welcome on this topic, I will publish my thoughts in a [...]
Congratulations to the iKobo team!!
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: December 2, 2008
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Just found out that iKobo will be opening their doors again on December 4th. About a month back, they announced their plan to shutdown their services. Apparently something has happened, rather changed, in the last couple of weeks. This is a good news for the Atlanta region. Every failed company componds the failure rates for [...]
Start-up quickie - why montior110.com failed?
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 29, 2008
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Roger Ehrenberg wrote an excellent article on why monitor110.com failed even though they were able to raise boatload of money. I will reserve my thoughts for later, but following are the 7 deadliest sins according to Roger, which I wholeheartedly agree:
The lack of a single, “the buck stops here” leader until too late in the [...]
Easy way to make money with google adsense
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 16, 2008
I couldn’t help laughing at the following advertisement:
Basically the highlighted text, in Tamil language, request the users to click on the google advertisements shown all over the screen. This pretty much violates google’s adsense ToS. I wonder how much money this site made so far with this innovative approach!!!
Funny note to Google: Wakeup and hire [...]
Very first blog entry about myGPSid.com
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 15, 2008
Alright!!! enough is enough - I am getting inundated with questions about my future plans. Most of you know by now that I had quit Music Intelligence Solutions; going to be two months soon. So the question is what’s next? Well, we are just getting started on a new innovative product and hopefully we’ll get [...]
Email etiquette for startup companies
Posted by: Venky Chinnathambi on: July 15, 2008
There was an interesting article on ABC News about email usage, Best Way to Annoy Your Co-Workers? Using E-mails.
Even though I agree with most of it, a clear distinction between big monolithic companies vs Startup/agile companies are warranted. For example in big companies, it is all about CYA. But in a startup environment, it is [...]
