| Hollowing out a PC to cut computing costs | 23-NOV-09 |
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| When Alok Singh thought of starting Novatium Solutions in 2005, he had a simple plan in his mind — to make computing simple and affordable without compromising on the user experience. With prior experience in companies like Satyam and Tata Motors, Singh zeroed in on the idea of launching a PC with no computing hardware like the CPU and, instead, managed by a central server. |
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| Sparkling the virtual world | 09-NOV-09 |
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| He might have inherited his family’s jewellery business but Mithun Sacheti did not stop at being just another jeweller on the high street. This young scion of Jaipur Gems instead chose to sell solitaire diamond jewellery in the virtual world. |
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| Tr(e)ading with caution | 02-NOV-09 |
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| Three friends went to college together, became software engineers, went to Silicon Valley, got cushy jobs and, after a few years, decided to become entrepreneurs. Sounds like a run-of-the-mill story? But this is where Tushar Makhija’s story takes a serious turn. It’s common to hear of entrepreneurs struggling to get that one big idea to start a business, but for Makhija and his two other friends, it was simply about taking inspiration from several popular online portals and creating a unique one of their own. |
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| A healthy way to success | 19-OCT-09 |
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| Keeping up with the Internet age, Anand Anupam, an alumnus from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, put his faith and money, in online healthcare management with the launch of www.Healthizen.com. |
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| Taking a robot-ride | 05-OCT-09 |
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| What if Fahad Azad could not fly fighter jets for the Indian Air Force? He’s smart enough to make and use robots that have the potential to match the speed and precision of those flying machines in their own space. |
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| Webmaster's masterstroke | 21-SEP-09 |
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| Unlike many other B-school products, who start their own ventures, make it a success and then sell it off for a tidy profit, Vivek Pahwa, a graduate from Hyderabad’s Indian School of Business, harboured an entrepreneurial dream and lived it. |
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| Ad-ding business | 14-SEP-09 |
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| Being a marketing graduate from Wharton School of Business and having worked with Saatchi & Saatchi and then with Microsoft’s online advertising division in New York, setting up an online classified advertisement booking service was a natural choice for 25-year-old Sharad Lunia. |
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| Giving mobiles added value | 17-AUG-09 |
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| For 33-year-old Amit Lakhmani, the chief executive officer of Kolkata-based wireless and internet value-added service (VAS) provider Max Mobility, embarking on a business outside of the then booming manufacturing and services sector was a natural choice. |
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| Giving the photo call | 10-AUG-09 |
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| One fine morning in 2006, Dhiraj Kacker received a phone call that changed his life as an employee with a successful start-up in the Silicon Valley. At the other end was his buddy Peeyush Rai coaxing him to come back to India to start their own business. And, Kacker didn’t think twice. |
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| SMSing his way to glory | 03-AUG-09 |
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| For 29-year-old VV Raju, now the chief executive officer of Hyderabad-based free messaging portal www.way2sms. |
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| Taking print beyond paper | 20-JUL-09 |
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| When Mukesh Bansal came back to India three years ago, he was bursting with business ideas he could start with. Eventually, it was the lack of a one-stop shop in the personalisation space that caught his fancy, and money. This is how www.myntra.com came into being. |
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| The mobile entertainer | 13-JUL-09 |
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| Nitish Mittersain, founder of Nazara Technologies, is among the few entrepreneurs who have remained unflappable in the current economic crisis. |
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| Click, book and read | 22-JUN-09 |
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| Hiten Turakhia spent his college days in book-shops devouring books. He did not let his passion wither even as he got himself a post graduate degree in Foreign Trade. Instead he translated it into an online book rental venture and his friends Hiten Dedhia, Dhairyasheel Pawar and Shibanaryan Rath, who were equally mad about books, joined him in launching www.librarywala.com. |
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| Personalised for you | 15-JUN-09 |
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| Having worked for over four years with various e-commerce start-ups in the US, Arpana Priyadarshini and her husband Jai Kumar decided to venture out on their own. Priyadarshini, smitten by the idea to turn entrepreneur, was convinced that India’s growing internet user base would be a good place to test waters. Thus was born www.PringOO.com, in 2007 which the duo claim is not just another web 2.0 company. |
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