Today is so complicated, and we humans have become so accustomed to using alternative, easier ways to do things, that sometimes, the most obvious ideas elude us. So what do you do when you see a perfectly good idea that you could have thought of, and didn’t? What if that idea sold to make millions, [...]

Facebook’s sudden buy of Instagram for a whopping $1 billion has everyone wondering ‘what next?’ and then again, it underscores the culture of innovation in the US. Silicon Valley in itself is a place that startups can build to sell, and build some more. And this way, everybody gets what he or she wants, right? [...]

This Monday, at 10.30 pm IST, the world changed. The globe shifted on its axis. Planet Earth spun a bit faster. The moon blinked. The seven seas parted. Tech entrepreneurs , saw the light!! Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion! Cough, cough. Are you saying you’ve never heard of either of these companies? Okay, you’ve [...]

Facebook’s willingness to pay $1 billion to buy the 12-person start-up Instagram has Silicon Valley venture capitalists happily re-doing their math on the potential value of hot young companies. The fact that Facebook was the buyer is itself seen as a big plus for the valuation of startups that may be adding subscribers rapidly but [...]

Silicon Valley, New York City and London are still the preferred locations for entrepreneurs to start up companies, but Bangalore is also now among the top 10 such preferred entrepreneurial locations worldwide. While Bangalore managed to land at ninth place in the list of best cities for startups, India’s financial capital Mumbai was slotted at [...]

Dear FM, I looked you up on Facebook but found a cold ‘page’. I checked on Twitter, but came across some fake ids. I searched on Linkedin but you don’t seem to be there. I gathered that I can’t hang out with you on these internet-mobile places I hang out in, because you probably don’t [...]

 It is a classic start-up story- two childhood buddies who graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology and turn their backs on corporate careers to launch a venture of their own. However, unlike many start-ups that struggle to take-off in the initial days of their journey, TravelTriangle, an online travel services company launched by Sankalp [...]

Each year at this time, I look forward and predict trends in social media for the coming year. But first, I look back at my predictions from last year. How’d I do? Not bad. Social media continues to move forward toward business integration, a trend that I identified last year. In a joint study from [...]

 A few months ago, ‘The Soup Bowl’ could sense that it was time to take the plunge. The business had caught on, but there wasn’t anyone waiting in the wings to bankroll the country’s first soup chain. Funds came from an unlikely quarter. A well-heeled investor, better known as HNI in the world of wealth [...]

Hari Menon believes in second chances. In 1999, Menon and three others launched Fabmart, India’s first online departmental store. Those were the days of dotcom boom. Headlines were easy to get, as was funding. If only the same thing could be said of business, he recalls. Fabmart underwent a raft of changes – from a [...]