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Creating PeopleWeb

Posted by Ramesh on November 3rd, 2009

Twitter introduced Lists — called TwitterLists – and they are already being used for different applications.
These lists are proving that you give a simple tool to people and they use lots of creativity and come up with all kind of interesting applications.
One of the most novel application that I read about is the list for [...]

FaceWeb

Posted by Ramesh on March 15th, 2009

Facebook continues to create more applications and enrich it platform to really create a new Web — I call it FaceWeb — to capitalize on the social network that it has created and the cyber personas of all of us that it has amassed. Very clever. Event iPhone is rapidly becoming an active [...]

Venture Funding for University Research

Posted by Ramesh on February 27th, 2009

Many Venture Capitalist companies have been formed to work with universities to license research results or products from university research laboratories. I had a chance to interact with multiple of those. Most of them had difficulties because many universities really don’t understand entrepreneurship. Their intellectual property offices think more like lawyers than [...]

A Great Opportunity: Mobile Phones in Rural India

Posted by Ramesh on February 9th, 2009

WSJ has a very informative article about how rural india is changing with mobile phones. It is difficult for us living in California to imagine the following:
In the village of Karanehalli, a cluster of simple homes around an intersection of two dirt roads about 40 miles from India’s high-tech capital of Bangalore, Farmer K.T. [...]

Getting funding for startups getting tougher

Posted by Ramesh on February 4th, 2009

In these days of financial difficulties all around, no wonder that one hears stories all around that getting funding for starting a technical startup is getting more difficult. First we heard os VC cuts. Now NYT reports on Angel Investors pulling back sharply.