Here’s wishing all of you a very happy and prosperous new year.  I’ve been writing rather infrequently in 2009 and thats likely to continue into the first couple of months in 2010.

I’m going to be in Ahmedabad around 15-20 th Jan. If anyone wants to meetup, drop me an email.

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• January 4, 2010, Rama Vadakattu commented: Happy new year Pranav
• January 5, 2010, Cyril Gupta commented: Hello Pranav, Good wishes for the year 2010! :) I've recently updated Blogvani.com again. Now we're going to introduce support for the major Indian languages one by one. I am going to launch an English blogging site like Blogvani.com soon! I've also recently launched http://codebix.com, a blog aggregator for programmers. Do send me your feedback when you get time. Cheers! Cyril
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VoiceTap is a Noida based startup that hopes to connect knowledge seekers with knowledge experts.  As the fast-food content on the Internet grows, its becoming more and more difficult to search for relevant, precise, authoritative answers to your questions on Google. VoiceTap hopes to make it easier for those seeking answers to questions to connect with domain experts. They have two main channels for connecting users and experts – via mobile phone (dial a short code) and via Internet (google talk or using VOIP software).

Consider the following scenario which illustrates a use case for VoiceTap:

Let’s consider the situation of a student wants to give his GMAT and go for higher studies to an ivy league B-School in the US. His typical decision making process would be: Family, friends, extended friends of family, the internet and experts (who know all about what has to be done). While the first four are relatively easy to access – it’s usually very hard to get the final and probably the most crucial of the decision making blocks. That’s where we step in. The knowledge seeker uses Getafixx to reach out to authoritative experts related to his area of interest. Getafixx evaluates his requirements – and connects him to firstly to an expert who can help with the GMAT preparations (or guide him related to that). While preparing – he faces problems related to Maths. Again, Getafixx steps in – and allows him to interact with an expert who can solve that query.

Currently, they focus on five domains that they think are most important in the Indian context – education, career, money and health.  Anyone can ask a question and anyone can become an expert. They have a rating system in place to rate the experts, which will help surface the top experts on a given subject.

They were shortlisted in the top 100 Asia startups by Red Herring.

I think their idea has definite potential and on quite a few levels coincides with the concept behind Aardvark – although of course, Aardvark focuses only on your extended social graph.

I would suggest them to focus on a single niche as of now – education & career. Considering that they have several IIT graduates on the team, they can really carve out a loyal user base in this area. And the demand for education / career related counseling in the Indian market is always high. Once they evangelize this sector, they can start opening up other domains as well.

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• December 15, 2009, Ajit commented: What exactly is their business model? Or do they have one? How much one has to pay to get expert guidance? If its free, experts will be of much lower quality, because a expert who doesnt understand cost of his own expertise is going to be a no expert at all!
• December 17, 2009, VLSI Training Institute commented: I fully agree with Ajit's comments if it is free advice then its available all over the internet and that also for FREE !! But if one gets experts to give advice then it cannot be free or they could have a model to generate revenue through adverts for expert compensations. Remember experts are not available for free!! May be retired experts or professors who just want to be in touch of society can be available but how much they are current with their knowledge can be different question.
• December 17, 2009, Rohan commented: There is some another startup that had the same or similar business model. I can't recollect at this moment, but I think I read about it on this blog, or some other startup-themed blog.
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• December 17, 2009, Rajat commented: Hi Arpit, I just saw your website today.Just a suggestion why don't you put pictures of some of the experts on the front page of your website, its good to attract visitors. Regards Rajat
• December 18, 2009, Arpit Rai commented: Hi Rajat, thanks for the suggestion. Will look into it.
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• January 14, 2010, Mark A commented: It looks very similar to Aardvark, why copy? I think they have to pay experts to answer questions, I am not sure if any expert will work for free.
• January 26, 2010, Jonas commented: I think it all depends on the question one has. If it is a very general one, I'll probably prefer the internet. However, for every question that demands in-depth knowledge of a special topic (legal advices and so on..) I would use a premium service and pay for it. @ Arpit, maybe a "how it works" button would add a certain value for new visitors. One more question: whats your pricing strategy? What do you offer experts for their service? Regards, Jonas
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• November 19, 2010, Sandip Dutta commented: Guys hope you all know about the open source world where you got codes and application and softwares for free. So there are some people who love to share their knowledge. I am a individual experts in Voicetap and one day some body ask me a question related to mysql and I helped him out that also help me to brush up my knowledge plus i have also spoken with a doctor in voicetap platform who suggestion help me a lot. So I believe the service is gr8.
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MumbaiTrader is a new startup, offering social investing tips to Indians. The site brings together a network of pre-screened and verified advisors, who will offer their services to investors. Each advisor is ranked and investors can opt to follow an adivsor based on their rating and track record. This Covestor like model has been implemented by other Indian startups like MoneyVidya and MarketHero (which seems to have deadpooled now).

There are some aspects of the site that arent quite clear to me. Can any user join as an advisor ? What screening, if any, is done to join as advisor ? If any user can join as an advisor, then I suggest they change their marketing message – since it seems to give the wrong idea that advisors are pre-screened select set of users.

Additionally, access to every feature on the site requires you to login. Which is a huge limitation. You want the users to be able to access as much of your site as possible to get a feel of the site and its features. By forcing to login / signup before exploring the site features will severely limit the number of users signing up the service.

• TweetKnot enables you to form groups on Twitter
• Social investing startup MoneyVidya kicks ass
• Perfios hopes to become the Mint.com for Indian market

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• December 17, 2009, ArthSutra commented: Again a good social startup but need to understand that good advisors will enroll only if they see any monitory benefit of their time. As all know every stock broker around the cornet has its in-house advisor but all know how good they are!! Best of luck to them and hopefully they come up with business model which benefit both society and experts.
• December 27, 2009, Rajesh Malik commented: It is sad the research on the part of the SD team. They are mentioning about moneyvidya and markethero, while the social investing space has moved way ahead when it comes to Fourstocks and Stockezy.com As a personal user of stockezy, you can find all the required elements of a complete social investing community right here at stockezy. It is high time, SD team do more research b4 throwing up their reviews.
• January 11, 2010, Santosh commented: I think the term should be "Investment Social". What do you think?
• May 24, 2010, Maddison Richards commented: Investing is my way of earning money both online and offiline, right now i am into venture capital.,;;
• June 30, 2010, Shrabasti commented: Wishing them very best in social investing!
• July 1, 2010, Rainu commented: Interesting site.... I know a lot of people who use the online websites to trade in stocks. So these sort of financial websites can do very well if executed well.
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Vikas Bajaj has a story on NYT about India’s slow pace of innovation.  Nothing new and nothing most of you all didnt know already. Even the ubiquitous Sujai Karampuri gets a mention as is normally the case on stories based on this theme (no offense to Sujai – I love his blog and admire how outspoken he is).

This topic – call it ‘lack of innovation in India’ or ‘why no product companies in India’ or ‘where are Indian startups’ – has been touched upon umpteen times by media, bloggers (yes – I’m guilty too) and startup conferences and panels.

So, there’s absolutely no contest that there’s no or very little innovation happening in the Indian tech scene. I think we should move beyond the obvious and try to focus more on how to resolve the issue.

For starters, I’d like to point to a recent post by Fred Wilson who captured the essence of building a startup ecosystem quite well. By far, its one of the best and most lucid pieces I’ve seen on startup ecosystems. I’d say we’re still early in the first decade and have a long way to go yet.

Meanwhile, I also wanted to talk briefly about the oft quoted ‘not enough angels’ issue. The way I see it — the lack of angel funding is a classic chicken & egg problem in the Indian market. Lets say that hypothetically speaking, I have some extra money lying around that I’d want to invest somewhere. Lets say a startup pitches me for angel funding. Now, without any significant M&A activity or IPO’s, what is the probability of getting good returns on my investment ? Indian Internet, in its current form, is not a very viable market. So, what are the odds that I see more concrete returns in other sectors – be it stocks / real estate etc. and opt to invest in those sectors as opposed to tech startups ?

But some you may argue – arent angels supposed to be true risk takers ? Isnt angel investing more like – invest and forget (assuming you lost the investment). And I agree – thats the reason I say its a classic chicken and egg problem. Without some returns on investment, the sector might not attract a lot of angels and without the angels, there might not be a lot of startups.

Would love to hear your thoughts about it.

• Google joins Band of Angels
• You say lack of angel funding, I say lack of startups
• Ashish Gupta from HelionVC on “lack of funding in India”

Comments

• December 10, 2009, Jojo Joson commented: What we need is not talks, symposiums, seminars etc. What we need is action.
• December 11, 2009, VLSI Training Institute commented: One thing need to understand that India is having huge middle class base but it is not consumer base. So no product innovation can be profitable till active consumer base increase. In India till now people are dead scared of using credit card online. Even offline use is also very limited to high-tech cities. Till actual consumption does not grow the product or innovation development cycle will not complete.
• December 14, 2009, Rajat commented: I personally feel its mostly human nature to follow a trend (as it seems safer), if one VC invests in a company that turns out to be the next google from India, then plenty will follow soon. There are ways to get around this problem. There is a thriving indian community in western countries whether in USA,canada or UK.Why not we people create a pool and put in some money and start investing in startups in India or launch our own startups.Might seem like a stupid idea to some.Shall we create a website for this and take up this idea. Also startups in India can take help from their contacts in US or other countries and ask them to pitch for them in front of VC's there. I think we should think in terms of global markets when we are launching products. I really donot understand when we launch service companies we think globally but when we launch products we think in terms of local market only (which might not be mature at this time for the internet) Also innovation comes from thinking long term.I think its in our culture to think short term, that shows in our vision for creating fly overs that only help to sooth traffic for a while, or joining bigger companies for money. Sticking to a service + product model might work i.e. to say doing 'service' work to survive and doing 'product' innovation to thrive.Once product initiatives pick up , then service work should be stopped.
• December 21, 2009, kumbham dilip commented: hey ! i think we are quite innovative , but problem is in action and action isnt there because we dont get much support from our nearest friends ,teachers and relatives leave VC , having VC funds doesnt bring much innovations , innvoations happens from universities , participating in quality discussions. the more and more we discuss the more products u c from india !
• December 21, 2009, Rajat commented: Innovation is there i agree, but in bits and chunks. And i also agree that many people even though talented enough still donot get support for e.g see this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPN3gLVDsOY This guy can easily be one of the best rock climbers in the world but very few people even know about him even in India, and nobody cares.If he would have been born in some western country by this time he would have been very popular. The chalta hai attitue is killing us and the nature to not help each other to succeed is also a problem.
• December 27, 2009, Nimesh commented: I absolutely agree with the idea about lack of innovation in India. I read a similar article but in a different direction in venturewoods.org, where the author has discussed about why we need product based technology startups in India. You can have a read here http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2009/12/17/why-india-needs-more-tech-software-companies/
• January 14, 2010, Sushant @ Techooze commented: Innovation in India is way more than any other country(My Thinking) but there is lack of awareness. The young entrepreneurs are suppressed by conditions here in India. When I started blogging people around me laughed at the idea of income from ads by other people clicking at them and instead of exploring any other field many of us are forced to move along the crowd. For them a 9 to 5 job is good rather than earning more money and working from home.
• January 19, 2010, Joe commented: In an indian context a few things matter most - Family views, Securing ones future, avoiding authorities when possible and buy gold, govt bonds or FD, property if possible...This thinking comes from their parents who have slogged their backs off and saved money all through their lives...It is very difficult to shake this monkey off! I did it and only bcos i am doing ok it doesnt matter otherwise i would have been termed a loser!! Indians need to know they can...like in Matrix...choose between the Red or Blue Pill...we need a Morpheus brigade !!
• March 7, 2010, Vidya commented: Hello Pranav, your blog post highlights a key issue, namely the lack of seed funding crucial to nurture a start up. I would also contend that along with the initial seed investment, having other serial entrepreneurs as advisors is also critical to getting things off the ground correctly. It would be worthwhile to mention that the US recently introduced a bill called the StartUpVisa Act in the Senate http://bit.ly/chjgor. If passed, it might have the consequence of attracting more Indian entrepreneurial talent to the US.
• April 21, 2010, Jagan commented: Hi, A very thought provoking post indeed. When we see many 'uprisings' in entrepreneurship - websites, magazines, funds, conferences etc. one might think India is brimming with a dozen of 'next big things'. Working as a development manager in a business incubator which is a part of one of the best universities in India. I often come across many ideas from students and faculties. from my interactions with student community (in general), i felt the type of education imparted in our colleges contributes a lot to the 'less innovative thinking' among us. You see, I spotted this post through a software developed two Stanford graduates. Most of us uses an operating system developed by a crazy group of college dropouts. We network online through the software developed by a Harvard undergraduate. We learned many things in undergraduate studies. but we were so neck deep in academics that we missed the big market of opportunities. There cannot be true innovation in India unless untill we encourage our engineers/graduates to correlate what they study with what they see. You will then identify the what is missing or what can be added. Such an ecosystem must evolve around our Universities/Colleges.
• December 6, 2010, Raj Kiran Singh commented: You cannot expect everything thing to turn up over night. There is no lack of innovation in India, we innovate at scale which is feasible for us. If somebody expects that we should come up with new Microsoft, Google or Apple, well then they would have to wait some time. Enterpreneur ship is its very early stages in India. Current generation (kids of late 70s and early 80s) is very enthusiatic, I have many friends including my self who try to break the old mould and do something new, but please keep in my that we have be fed for 10 years, to study hard, get a job and get married.
• December 7, 2010, K M Rao commented: Who says there is no innovation in India. Did you not hear of one A raja, Lalit Modi, Gali brothers, Y S R Reddy !!!. They have taken innovation to such a high level no one in the rest of the world could emulate them.
• June 21, 2011, Rohit Kohli commented: Hello, India consist of middle class people, we in india are more concerned on our future rather concentrating on our present, this doesn't allow us to take risk, there is no lack of innovation, I have an idea to connect people so that they can express themselves and share their problems and by the virtue of discussion can arrive a common solution, these requires a tool that i am trying to develop for the time being i developed a website www.evoljournal.com where people can express themselves, now I came across problems which involves funding, this is a situation in india therefore an idea takes a long road to achieve its aim in India
• July 27, 2011, Adrianna Roberts commented: a bookmark to this blog was provided by Christian Dillstrom, the mobile and social media marketing veteran - so you must be doing an excellent job.
• August 1, 2011, Prasanna commented: You guys are the typical bunch who want to "appear very intellectual" but have very little or no substance. Stop yakking and start doing something - if you don't have any ideas, at least keep quiet and stop bullshitting all over the place.
• November 9, 2011, Vaibhav commented: I am not here to argue on what is missing in India and what is there. I am not sure of all the people who made a comment here, how many are really interested in doing something big. I dream of creating something innovative yet useful and during my search to find like minded people on the internet I ended up reading this blog. If anyone here shares the same feeling and is willing to devote some time of their day in realizing that dream then please feel free to connect with me through my email- v_singh@live.com.
• January 10, 2012, Deepak commented: little innovation happening in the Indian tech scene this is real scene......
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• February 19, 2012, Saurav commented: A country where meritocracy is dead on birth - the inglorious caste system - where even who gets to start a good startup is reserved for the great Brahmins......how can you expect India to be a new silicon valley?. I again tell you apart from the lack of infrastructure which can be overcome there is no dearth of other resources in India....... a. There is ample talent and manpower availability. b. There is less cost compared to US to start the startup. But still India has failed to be an innovative destination. The reasons are : 1. The Sick culture of India - belief in being a slave rather than a founder. I have worked in service companies so called tech hubs like Infosys , wipro. Managers have personally told me to stop thinking a lot otherwise US clients will stop outsourcing work here. 2.Politics - politics , Politics. A brahmin gets to be the CTO, CEO, Director and manager. Noone else. ........why?. cause he wasnt born a Brahmin. !. The end result is there for all to see. Look where China has progressed in all these years.
• April 10, 2012, Hyatt Recruitments commented: Hello, Hyatt Hotels is a global hospitality company with widely recognized, industry leading brands and a tradition of innovation developed over our more than fifty-year history. Our mission is to provide authentic hospitality by making a difference in the lives of the people we touch every day. Employment Opportunities: Due to high demand for our services and our determination to maintain our top star class in our services, Hyatt Hotels is on a recruitment project which has thrown an open door opportunity to applicants all over the world. Hyatt Hotels through our immigration lawyers and agents will assist in the procurement of visas for Non-US citizen. These employment opportunities cover almost every aspect of hoteling. We therefore categorise them in the following areas as listed below: Officials and Managers Professionals Technicians Sales Workers Administrative Support Workers Operatives Laborers and Helpers Service Workers. If you therefore consider yourself qualified to work in any of the above mentioned areas, Please do send us your Resume/Cv to: hyatt.jobs@job4u.com . Thank you. For Recruitment Dept. Hyatt Hospitalities, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts.
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Since August, Rediff has lost four key executives -

– Long time product head – Zaki Ansari – who quit in August to join UTV New Media

– India Abroad editorial director Prem Panicker quit to join Yahoo India

– CFO Joy Basu left in August

– Most recently, Salil Chandrashekar, director of product development (was also spearheading Rediff’s minimalist approach)

A couple of executive moves here and there could be easily dismissed as normal. However, when 4 key executives quit in a short span of time, its definitely not a good sign.

Either there’s some internal turmoil @ Rediff or something else. None the less, such an exodus is a huge blow to Rediff, who I honestly think has already faltered with its minimalist strategy.

• Rediff Blog Showcase screenshots
• Barrons crashes Rediff party
• The Rediff redesign – a step backward ?

Comments

• December 24, 2009, Johny commented: "faltered with minimalist strategy" How is that? Its far easier and interesting to browse the much cleaner rediff.
• December 24, 2009, Rajat commented: Yes but there is no 'MEAT' in it....look at yahoo.com...cleaner interface but with more content, rather meaty content (that is important)
• January 2, 2010, VLSI Training Institute commented: Rediff is far best unbiased news content site which I have seen but its marketing and flaws in customer complaints follow-ups is hitting it hard. It is also getting very severe competition from India Times which is backed by Times group and really good marketing folks. Still Rediff has good reader and online shopper base so it’s good time they wake up and look at their strategies.
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• April 10, 2012, Hyatt Recruitments commented: Hello, Hyatt Hotels is a global hospitality company with widely recognized, industry leading brands and a tradition of innovation developed over our more than fifty-year history. Our mission is to provide authentic hospitality by making a difference in the lives of the people we touch every day. Employment Opportunities: Due to high demand for our services and our determination to maintain our top star class in our services, Hyatt Hotels is on a recruitment project which has thrown an open door opportunity to applicants all over the world. Hyatt Hotels through our immigration lawyers and agents will assist in the procurement of visas for Non-US citizen. These employment opportunities cover almost every aspect of hoteling. We therefore categorise them in the following areas as listed below: Officials and Managers Professionals Technicians Sales Workers Administrative Support Workers Operatives Laborers and Helpers Service Workers. If you therefore consider yourself qualified to work in any of the above mentioned areas, Please do send us your Resume/Cv to: hyatt.jobs@job4u.com . Thank you. For Recruitment Dept. Hyatt Hospitalities, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts.
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I recently uncovered an incident where Burrp seems to have deleted a user review. Nishith,  founder of Pune based True Sparrow Systems (team behind SocialMedian – acquired by Xing), wrote a review for a Pune based burger joint, which he tweets was deleted by Burrp.

While I havent seen this as frequently occurring scenario, I am wondering if there are other similar instances that simply go unreported.

Burrp’s Terms of Service do state that they have the right to delete any content, including user posted reviews:

You understand and agree that Burrp may review and delete any Content, entertainment listings, business listings (including business name, address, phone, fax, distance, reviews, rating, reviews) that in the sole judgment of Burrp violates these Terms of Service or which might be offensive, illegal, or that might violate the rights of, harm, or threaten the safety of other users or members of the Burrp Site and/or other website users.

Its unclear why Burrp deleted Nishith’s comment and whether it violated Burrp’s ToS or it was deleted simply for building relationships with the biz – aka, financial gain.

If you have encountered a similar experience, do leave a comment and let me know.

• Local Reviews startup Burrp is acquired by Infomedia 18

Comments

• December 10, 2009, Aarti Jerani commented: Our goal is to maintain the quality of reviews on the site and encourage users to share their real experiences. The review in question was deleted because it was not a review about a personal experience at the cafe but instead a comment on the arrogant response from the business owner to another user. Keeping the review would have in fact favorably affected the overall review count of the business and pushed them up on the search results page. An explanation to this effect was sent to Nishith as well. burrp! would never delete a user review for financial gain or relationships with business owners. The restaurant in question is not a client; even if it was it would not give them access to deleting user reviews. In fact, we are extremely particular about comments from users and take strict action against business owners who are putting up fake reviews for personal gain. We will continue to do whatever it takes to maintain clean content on the site. Even if it means removing reviews that are not relevant.
• December 10, 2009, pranav commented: thanks for the clarification aarti - I did give Burrp the benefit of doubt since I havent seen many such occurrences: While I havent seen this as frequently occurring scenario,
• December 11, 2009, Gaurav commented: @Aarti - I think if Burrp (or any other company) deletes user content, they should replace the review with a note saying why it was deleted, something very similar to what you mentioned here. It will help users, who take time to write content, to understand how they can make better use of the tools and not violate ToS.
• December 11, 2009, pranav commented: Gaurav - I think thats a great idea. Providing a brief explanation would leave the reviewer less perplexed on why their review / comment was deleted.
• December 12, 2009, Anand Jain commented: Gaurav, that indeed is a good idea and on the face of it something that's very easy for us to pull off. Thanks for the tip.
• December 14, 2009, Aarti Jerani commented: Gaurav/Pranav - Thanks a ton for the suggestion. We are implementing this change soon and will keep startupdunia informed about the development.
• December 16, 2009, sathish commented: burrp deletes bad reviews of restaurants..... in short they are being paid by the restaurants to have only good ones on the site...... corruption even on websites..... new way to earn money in india.
• December 24, 2009, Anand Jain commented: @Sathish, can you back up your claim with any proof? Please don't spread rumours. btw, the feature that Gaurav suggested is now live on the site.
• December 24, 2009, Rajat commented: I have a question, just a personal thought, does Amazon / youtube / walmart / Yelp delete the comments.... I personally feel that content containing derogatory statements or bad remarks should be moderated by the people who read them rather then the people who host the site.Let the people decide what content is good or bad.
• December 24, 2009, Rajat commented: Also check this 'what these people did when they deleted content' http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1534-hulu-ceo-we-screwed-up-royally
• December 30, 2009, ggupta commented: I have had burrp comments deleted for no reason.... write a bad experience about a restaurant one day and it will disappear the next day. ubhi & burrp sucks....
• January 14, 2010, Mark A commented: I do agree that some kind of moderation is necessary, who determines how much? I think moderation should be left to users, if it is a content website, they could flag the comments which are inappropriate.
• March 8, 2010, Lalani commented: YES, its true. Burrp deleted 2 best reviews which we got from our customers and SOMEONE have put a fake bad review for our restaurant @ bandra. They have forced us to do advertising with them, we said we are not interested currently. and few days later our good reviews were deleted and fake reviews had come...
• May 10, 2010, raj commented: if anybody closely watches burrp,you can easily find out the one who pays them get a good review and one who doesn't get negative reviews, specially in case of restaurants and yeah atleast 50 percent of reviews are fake.....bitchslapped is for restaurants who have have thrashed them, it sucks big time....
• May 15, 2010, Biks commented: Burrp even removed my comments. My understanding is that they favor some restaurants. My comment was removed because I commented on the food and service quality of Egg Factory. They replied saying it violated some rules. God knows what rule I broke because they did not explicitly mention that. Apparently every body writes goody goody things about Egg Factory but my review would have spoilt their image. Hence Egg Factory must be paying some tip to Burrp ( their monetization mechanism is weak ) to rip off any bad review. I guess as long as you dont use swear words or write unrelated reviews, every review should be allowed. Wake up Burrp...its WEB 2.0!!!!
• July 8, 2010, Kuldeep commented: all this is a money game...do you think burrp is here for public service...certainly not...they want to make money....business practices...you know
• September 2, 2010, Dinesh Chanchalani commented: Anand and Aarti - do you guys want to respond to the issues raised here? I think you should since your reputation is at stake.
• December 1, 2010, Amit commented: I think all websites which show reviews moderate them.
• June 13, 2011, Jarna commented: yeah Right aarti.. thats utter rubbish. i think i am getting the big picture on how burrp's business model is. i am an investment banker covering the internet space and i had my doubts on how burrp makes money. Its simple! allow restaurants to post fake reviews in exchange of an 'advertising fee'. and if somebody brings this to their notice, they simply delete their posts. i have witnessed this. i posted a write up on how the owner of Lemongrass, Malad is creating fake accounts and posting 5/4 star reviews on his page. the following review written by me was deleted: Burpers, Isn't it way too obvious that most of the reviews below are FAKE and written by the owners? If its' obvious to a user like me, its definitely known to burrp as well.. unfortunately they are doing NOTHING about these fake reviews. I have been following the sudden rise in 5 / 4 star reviews and the praises used for this place.. and the profiles of the reviewers is NEW and lemon grass being the first review. My Message to the owner : I know you want to promote your place, but please DO NOT USE this platform as this is ONLY for genuine feedback and thus is beneficial to aam janta. Btw, i have been to your restaurant MANY times.. infact i am quite a regular and have had the 'Live' stir fry many times.. many users have mentioned 'watch your food being cooked in front of you'- now thats a lie. my stir fry's have never been cooked live in front of me (out of the 5 times i've had it). No doubt, the food tastes good but you i don't accept posting of fake reviews. I' m beginning to lose faith in the authenticity of reviews on this website. i have also seen Lemon Grass' ad on burrp's homepage which is a paid ad. Just putting 2 and 2 together, something looks fishy. If burrp doesn't take action against this, i"ll delete my profile (and i am a regular burrper) and make this fraud public. And i mean it.
• July 9, 2011, Indian Entrepreneur commented: Every website has to comply with IT Act 2000. Also when you submit your review to the website, you agree to their terms and conditions. Any website owner will delete offensive and defamatory statements made against any individual/organization.
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• January 24, 2012, Pradeep Thomas commented: Burrp is ripping us off , now is it ? and they are Scre**ng around with restaurants unless they advertise? I cannot understand HOW is it that we as country get Scre*ed everyday by politicians and large companies/corporations and take it lying down .. but find pleasure in ripping apart websites that fundamentally provide a cool service which is free for me. Aarti & Anand, I wish there was a way to tackle slander online- But looks like there isn't.A lot of smoke ..cant find the real fire. No - I dont work for Burrp or infomedia18 or Network18 group and I am NOT an Investment Banker who has put his client's money into Burrp, just a regular Joe user of Burrp from Mumbai.I and my family use Burrp all the time - and I glad that they(Burrp) are around.They made my life easier.Keep up the good work. When you submit your review to a website, you agree to their terms and conditions - so the conclusion is simple if you dont like Burrp - please dont use it , I like it and I use it often.
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Overall Learnings

1. There is no problem, i.e., (1) there are not enough good problems that startups are working on (2) there seems to be no shortage of funds, platforms and ecosystem partners willing to help startups, there are not enough good startups for them to support. The ecosystem is hungry for successes.
2. It was a good *startup* conference and not as a *product* conference – talks about bootstrapping, mentors, jobs for dummies, writing a B-plan, etc. were out of place.
   • We saw delegates from Sun Microsystems, Intuit and many other big companies. These guys would not benefit from such sessions when they were expecting a product-oriented conference.
   • Conferences are really really hard to make.
3. Product Management skills are the need of the hour, NOT talks about talks about opportunities in X sector, and so on. When there is no culture of knowing how to execute, rest of the topics are moot points. We will explain this with an example below.
4. What can be done better next time? More emphasis on product management, practical sessions such as case study on using Google Adwords to do market research, it was briefly mentioned in Naaem Zafar’s presentation, but why weren’t topics like these explored more? And also, people like @gauravnomics should be invited next time for marketing sessions. And so on.

Bottom-line: If you are considering to start a full-time startup, then please, please, build your product management skills than your powerpoint skills.

Now, on to the notes from some of the interesting sessions that we have attended.

Learnings from the Sessions

1. Guy Kawasaki said “Don’t worry, be crappy. Get it good enough, then take the shot and start selling. Don’t ship crap but ship ‘revolutionary new crap’. It’s not about the first version, it is about getting it out there and fixing according to what customers say. Beta programs are BS because no one will give proper feedback. As a rule, all betas go well. People will give real feedback only when they put their money on the line.”

The rest of what he talked about was irrelevant to the context of the conference – about products from India – see Sameer’s question: Why Kawasaki at a Product Conclave? for more.

2. Workshop on marketing and branding strategies for product organizations. The session was moderated by Peter Yorke and the panel had the CEO of Brandcomm, Sridhar Ramanujam, MD of Inventus Cap, Samir Kumar, CEO of Stelae Technologies Aruna Schwarz & Professor. Venkateswaran from SDM Mysore.

• Product is the language in the company. Brand is the language in the mind of the customer. Creating a value proposition is all important to make a product successful.
• When a brand is being created, the path is very similar to what Gandhi had professed so many years ago. First other companies ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you & finally they respect you. Any product/brand will go through all these phases.
• Starbucks is all about consumer experience. That is where all the concentration should be.
• Products are mostly identical. It is of utmost importance to provide and deliver value.
• Product is just a minimum criteria and the value proposition has to be driven by the right marketing mechanisms.
• Technology is one of the unique industries that create a need instead of satisfying a need. You have to be more in touch with market and consumer behavior to drive success through marketing as product development is only a basic condition that is satisfied.
• The most interesting story had been by Stelae. Her company was started by 2 non tech, purely business people even though they were providing a tech solution to publishing companies in France. They did have a customer when they started on it. But, they didn’t hire a CTO until 2 years into the process. This should be an eyeopener to many people in the tech community. Titles are not important. If the roles are satisfied, ignore the titles and move on & create products and do customer development.
• CEO is the overall image of the company. For 5-8 years, there will be no other brand image for the company. CEO will have to meet customers. The way CEO answers the phone might also become crucial to whether you make or break in the industry. Be professional in all your interactions.
• The key message is that “Brand is You”
• The VCs dont want to hear about any cool tech products, or any other kind of cool lingo. They want to see that there is a balance towards customer development. The problem is similar if there are only sales folks and no tech folks. Take care of balance.
• DO NOT create a marketing plan based on any textbook definitions. There have been biz plans with totally irrelevant target spending like on magazines etc.. when the product really requires traction online. The spending has to be very very targeted. Keep in mind that the really important thing is ROI and not doing something for the sake of satisfying criterion. Avoid misdirected spending.
• It has to be all about customer development & customer centricity.
• Have you asked yourself how the price premium is being justified for the product? What is the most unique proposition?

See Minimum Viable Product by Eric Ries and Customer Development process by Steve Blank for a succinct description of the same.

3. Krishna & Arjuna sessions – the value of a mentor/mentee relationship, and how startups should look for advisors

• Krishnas are valuable when they are “been there done that” people
• Arjunas can’t know everything, mentors can guide and tell you what you never expected
• 2-3 advisors in a mix of areas is a good choice
• Look for balance of ideas and execution, balance of advice and rolodex of contacts
• Examine your own SWOT analysis and find people who can shore you up
• Advisors look for humility ⇒ learnability, trust relationship, and their own relevance to the mentee
• Watch out for time constraints of advisors
• Communicate right things at the right time – they need to know enough precise context to advise you so that the 3-4 hours you spend with them is productive
  • A person who has been advising 3-4 companies say that they come to him only when they are in trouble and not give ongoing updates which shows their immaturity
• Can have a 2-3 year contractual obligation / timeline for advisors
• Avoid expectation mismatch, have structuring of relationship
• Distinguish between CEO coach / mentors vs. Advisors vs. Consultants – what are you really looking for?
  • Mentors / CEO Coaches are for long-term
• Compensation is the last thing in mind for a real mentor, but it is a gesture of goodwill. Equity-based vesting over the years is the best and simplest option.
• Only when we walk a few steps together, you really know the person
  • Do due diligence
  • Be patient (think long-term)
  • How do you structure an exit?

4. The panel session on telecom products led by Rajesh Jain was one of the best in the conference. The topic was broad, meaning not much depth but Rajesh Jain really did it well. He asked really pointed questions, guiding other panelists, keeping it sharp & on schedule. It was so interesting that midway I forgot to update my notes on the talk & got totally engrossed in the talk. The following points are all from my mind, so apologies in advance if something is misquoted.

• The panel had one member from each stack of the telecom product space. Vishy from Bell Labs was representing the most basic infrastructure. Sangeet from Comviva was in the space of applications and layer above the basic infrastructure. Manoj Dawane of Mauj Telecom was representing the VAS and consumer space from the telco perspective. Rajesh Jain represented the consumer from a overall perspective at the level of apps independent of the network.
• In the next couple of months/years, there will be an explosion of virtual operators in India. Virgin mobile is one of the virtual operators in India. As far as we know, they use the network of Tatas to provide their services. This will hopefully lead to better margins & free apps on mobiles.
• Hopefully the perennial “1 year away” 3G will be introduced in a couple of months.
• Overall, the telecom space in India is one of the most competitive space. In most countries, the margin is around 20% whereas in Indian market, it is less than 8-10%, putting pressure on the whole ecosystem to show ROI and profits.
• The main reason for the low margins is that the operators want to reach users at all segments and also control the revenue sharing. There have been some issues in measuring traffic for revenue sharing. The operator is all powerful.
• First up, the bell labs member spoke about the innovations at the most basic level.
• 1. Village Net – They are coming up with better antennae technology and hardware to increase range of wifi routers to 20km with no reduction in bandwidth, it is really difficult.
• 2. Mango application – mobile audio video on the go. GPRS is currently not cost-effective and people don’t know what to do with GPRS. The network cant support multiple media downloads etc. with the current infrastructure. You should be able to go into coffee day, browse or download for a couple of minutes, pay in micropayments and get out of coffeeday. This kind of technology is being realised by bell labs
• 3. Micropayments… This was more like a teaser.
• Second, the comviva member…
• Basically, this is the space which supports doing ringtone downloads, infra for VAS support, payment systems of telcos, everything other than basic infrastructure and non consumer end of VAS. This is a huge space in terms of products but very few companies. For example, comviva is in 40 different product spaces. I dont even know the extent of opportunity in this space. This is a good space to think about new services. Map services etc… have to be realised at this level. Another example is the top up technology supported by this layer of infrastructure.
• Indian ecosystem is really really innovative due to the competition and the market. This has led companies to innovate in India and then move on to other emerging markets. It is preferred that you enter the Indian market even though the margins are less and only afterwords diversify. The reason is that the the product will be suited to the consumer market as the company knows the consumer in and out.
• The future will be mobile financial services, mobile internet and mobile cloud.
• Because of the constraints in terms of processing and multiple platforms on each phone, there is a huge need for cloud computing for processing information, helping create a mobile cloud & pipes. This seems to be really appealing space to think of innovative products. Are the telecom departments in engg colleges listening?!
• Thirdly, the mauj member…
• Manoj has had a very interesting life in telecom. He was in telecom when incoming calls were priced at 16 rupees!! ie 1994. He has seen the innovations in the mobile space starting from prepaid cards. He was one of the people who approached Hindustan Unilever distributors to take care of prepaid markets. They went to Italy & some other country to learn how it works and had to implement. Can you imagine the journey form there to easy recharge of today?
• Manoj has been in places like UP which is 6 times the UK in population but a huge challenge to innovate and drive revenue. How can a prepaid card of around 10 be sold and above that, ask them to have ringtones and message beeps? They had to develop a infrastructure to make it based on daily revenue. That is vas, instead of being one time huge money, they made it per day. This was good for telco as well as the customer.
• Rajesh Jain mainly spoke about his ideas to appstore. How that will probably be the time when we can assume that regular users will have access to all kinds of applications.

Some more really good observations form this session:

• Learnings – The learnings in product development can be divided into 3 distinct sections. 1. Customer acquisition is really important. 2. Cashflows have to be handled carefully and effectively. 3. Execution – organization and management. It is all in the promise of delivery and execution.
• English – This was one of the questions. A startup is doing voice based VAS which is teaching english on the phone. I think it is a really good thing that the company is doing. They have been facing operator pressure but I am sure that with the help the telecom ecosystem, we might finally see some kind of education being imparted on the mobile phone. The day might not be far when the mobile phone will overtake the radio as the means to disseminate information in a more personalised manner. One day, there might be info about health, childcare, classes, agriculture and anything else that you can think of… the name of the person who asked this question was Mitul Limbani.
• Persona – “am I the customer” is WRONG! “I am building for the customer” is RIGHT! especially for enterprise customers. Basically, you have create a persona of a customer to keep the company and product in the right direction.

5. Writing a B-plan — Naeem
This was a good session by Naeem, mostly self-explanatory from his slides and from this description. The reason the session was so good was because Naeem was candid and to-the-point, busting so many common myths.

6. Building global consumer businesses out of India.
This was another really good session. We could hear all the stories of the people who created Indian brands for the global market. The companies chosen were also really good. Infosoft CTO Pallav had the most inspiring story. Ganesh of Tutorvista told us about his journey from BPO till tutorvista. Amit Ranjan shared his stories of the creation of slideshare. Narendra of Intel Asia spoke about how managing Asia pacific software products for India was challenging and interesting over the last 10 years. I will briefly tell each of their stories.

• Pallav – He started off without even knowing that PO means purchase online/order?! He is on the path to creating 6 new products after more than 6-8 products in the market. His dad takes care of all the finance part of it. He had to rely heavily on word of mouth, opensourcing code, writing code for free or for some mindspace in the user. It is the perfect rags to riches story of the coding world.
• Ganesh started off working with the BPO. Most investors when he approached them told him that the concept was too complicated and will be really difficult to maintain quality across especially if you expect a teacher who is not tech savvy to wake up at 3am and then teach an american kid when ganesh himself doesnt really know what american education is all about. The opportunity was that for really heavy personal tutoring, the rates were like $30-40 per hour against $100 per month of tutorvista. There are around 1000 teachers and 500 hours of teaching everyday today. (dont remember number exactly). The marketing in local media in silicon valley to Indian gujjus etc.. was unsuccessful. They found out that online ads were the best thing to attract and retain customers. They have adwords on more than 4000? words. It is a really interesting to see the challenges overcome by Ganesh. It seems such a simple idea but so difficult to execute! Every other person who knows skype would have thought of this idea but there are real challenges in executing it and keeping quality.
• Amit of slideshare was also very interesting. Amit was working for pepsi. His sister was a psychology prof in berkeley. Amit was bored of creating presentations everyday and decided to do something on his own. (oh! the irony! They modelled a lot of their site on the ideas of youtube, like embedded links etc.. One of the sequoia presentations has had more than a million views! The team is distribute 2:5 (us:india). They have around 23 people in all. It is really interesting to see an indian company based out of here be a global brand.
• Narendra – shared the challenges and the post mortem of what has happened in the last 10 years in APAC, especially India from a product perspective. Intel was/is interested in software domain as they see software to drive the sales of hardware. Narendra has been following APAC for a long time. The ecosystem is slowly opening up in India and slowly more product companies are coming up like subex etc…? There were a lot of jargons in his speech. It was good but since I dont remember any anecdotes, you will have to read his part elsewhere.

To end it up, let’s take the case of an actual product that we saw in the stalls section of the conclave. The product was called YoPedia (see walkthrough). Great concept of changing the focus of the user from “which software do I use?” to “what task do I want to do?” It delivers the long-forgotten promise of WinFS, especially allowing to store and categorize links, URLs, files, in a seamless way. It has many additional features, such as picking a few of them and emailing them, making new Word documents just 1-2 clicks away, and so on.

The downside? It *still* is not easy to use. This is exactly where product management would come into the picture. For example, anybody who is looking to simplifying the concept of a filesystem would assume that one single way of categorization would have been enough. But YoPedia actually had 6-7 ways of categorizing – category, topic, tags, color, workspace, etc. This means that it replaced the headache of folders with the headache of multiple ways of categorization! Excellent idea, great potential, but suffers from only tech people working on it. Not easy for a beginner, even though that is the USP. The product is still in alpha phase, and will be released as beta in the coming months, and we hope that it will eventually become the simple, easy-to-use, and must-have product that it can be.

It felt gratifying to see one product in the conclave that was interesting, which is both sad and ironic. Here’s hoping to really seeing more products from India!

This event report was brought to you by Swaroop C H and Srikanth Thunga, who thank StartupDunia for the opportunity to attend the event.

P.S. See http://blog.nasscom.in/emerge/category/nasscom-product-conclave-2009/ for more coverage of the event.

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VCCircle reports that Infy co-founder, NR Narayana Murthy, has sold $37 million worth of Infy shares to setup a VC fund. Proceeds from the sale will be used as seed capital for the fund.

That is great news. He has amazing street cred and is definitely viewed as an entrepreneurial icon who grew Infy to a multinational company.

Comments

• October 23, 2009, Rajat commented: This is good news. More people might follow his steps , Azim Premji and others.
• October 24, 2009, vikas shah commented: Dear All Entrepreneurs, All VC's are alike .They will come when profits are around. An eg. NR Narayan Murthy was on front page of ET for showing interest in startups in India. There is a company providing "internet security solutions" to Banks in India .But this company is not able to break in its clients ,even though it has better product on anti-phising and anti-spamming.It is on multi-factor tool authentication. Only reason is that the biggies like Infoys and Wipro are deeper clutches and dont allow innovation. Allowing external innovation ,for them , means loosing a client. Message is clear I hope Happy new year to all the strugglers
• October 27, 2009, Chirag commented: Was not aware of this. It sounds good. :) NR Narayana Murthy will surely do wonders again !
• October 27, 2009, Rajat commented: Do we really respect body shoppers like Infosys, Wipro TCS ?? These companies have no product. they are just renting indian minds ..... no innovation so what if they have billions..... they do not have a single product
• October 27, 2009, Rajat M commented: Business is business rajat (even my first name is rajat :)), i don't think it really matters whether it is a prod company or a services company....As long as something positive is happening it should be a good idea right ... Do people ask this questions from VC's in america whether they started as a prod company or services company
• October 28, 2009, raj commented: NR Narayana Murthy will surely do wonders again !
• November 5, 2009, ekerala commented: I wonder who will get the first funding from him :) . Whoever it is, along with the funding they are going to get huge media mileage.
• December 10, 2009, VLSI Training Institute commented: True Infy and all started as body shopper but slowly they will move for product model specially for banking sector etc likewise Wipro is moving towards IP and hardware product manufacturing. Momentum has to be build to develop anything product or service.
• January 1, 2010, varun commented: hi, it seems u r trying hard to be a innovation success specially in some thing as a product. i think there is something positive about your comment. would be glad to know what u r upto and should love to share my innovative product's projects. varun 9268421704
• January 4, 2010, Rajat commented: Hey Sure Varun, I would call you up. Also here is my email id rajat.me@gmail.com
• January 26, 2010, Annadhatha MK Rao, Engineer, Reformist & Social Servant, Age: 63 commented: Though NVSN Murthy is a scientist in metallurgy, he became a real God for Indian Corporates since he is caring so much for their welfare in the long run. His mission proves that he is a great visionary. His advices to Indian Corporates are really motherly and priceless. Our Corporates must take him as an advisor. He really deserves the title of “Father of Advices”. His words and thoughts have the power to melt hearts, open the minds and fuse the souls – for a common cause. At least, our world needs one more visionary like scientist NVSN Murthy for APPLYING THOUGHTS for others. Annadhatha MK Rao, Age: 63, Reformist, Engineer and Social Servant, email: annadhatha@sify.com
• February 12, 2010, Annadhatha M K Rao, Age: 63, Engineer, Reformist, Economist & Social Worker commented: When Indian IT companies are APPLYING THOUGHTS for others, scientist NVSN Murthy is APPLYING THOUGHTS for the Indian IT companies. This is least noticed by our IT Corporates. It is unfortunate.
• March 30, 2010, Annadhatha MK Rao, Age: 63, Engineer, Reformist & Social Servant commented: Individuals and institutions not working for their native land are killing their nation in many ways. Products and services not reaching your nation and people are destroying your nation.
• April 11, 2010, prashant commented: Hi Guys Your are really true even I am struggling so much even after bringing such a nice product to the market.I have come up with a product which actually protects a user online identity by providing virtual social identification number.Please check my website www.vsoid.com for more information .Please provide your feedback.Thanks
• April 11, 2010, prashant commented: Hi Guys Your are really true even I am struggling so much even after bringing such a nice product to the market.I have come up with a product which actually protects a user online identity by providing virtual social identification number.Please check my website www.vsoid.com for more information .Please provide your feedback.I am looking for a venture capital who can take this venture to the next level
• April 20, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist & a quitting visitor on earth commented: For garnering votes, power, wealth, goods and services – politicians waged a war on economists and removed economics from social science and merged it with power politics, therefore, economists no more deal with production, distribution and consumption of goods, services and wealth since they surrendered to politicians for their survival, as a final result, Economics turned Agonymix.
• August 20, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented:  Humanity, a simple bridge for a bonding bridge. • Adopt “ LoveAll-HateNone “ philosophy originated from Humanity, therefore Humanity is the essence of all religions, faiths and philosophies of our acquisitive world. Most importantly, for all those who believe in God, Humanity is the visible form of God. • Do not do for others what you do not want others to do for you. • We acquire everything only to carry nothing.  God and Religion: • A true religious mind knows no religion since GOD knows no religion. • No one is bad since everyone belongs to God. • Laws not built on humanity do not last longer.  The need of the hour: • Sow humanity and reap peace. Sow peace and reap progress. Sow progress and reap prosperity. Sow prosperity and reap endless happiness. Therefore - Humanity is my caste, Humanity is my community, Humanity is my religion, Humanity is my creed, Humanity is my race, Humanity is my tribe, Humanity is my region, Humanity is my nationality, Humanity is my language, Humanity is my mother-tongue, Humanity is my consideration, Humanity is my philosophy, Humanity is my approach and Humanity is my way of life. Finally, Humanity is my whole world.  NVSN Murthy, Scientist A temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil and attempting to eliminate tears, agony, suffering, wars, destruction and loss of lives, time and money for the people and nations of our mother planet earth. Past address: Unknown Present address: Earth Future address: Unknown
• August 20, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Uncertainty is more certain and more inevitable than the most inevitable change. Thus, Indian entrepreneurs in general and corporate sector in particular, must be more watchful than never before since emerging technologies demanding abrupt changes needs abnormal potential to absorb changes associated.
• August 22, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Reduce IT assesses The number of Income Tax (IT) assesses can be reduced drastically from several crores to few thousands by making the employer responsible for collection of income tax at the source. Thus, IT assessment for individuals can be eliminated. The same practice can also be extended to consultants, retainers and other professionals being hired by organizations. Thus paperwork, paper consumption and forests can be saved. Similarly, buyer must deduct Sales Tax at source for the goods bought by him. This system has numerous benefits and money flows directly from the source to the government without delay and loss. Moreover, we do not need several names, departments and ACTs like: income tax, sales tax, service tax, excise, gift tax, wealth tax, luxury tax, entertainment tax, entry tax, exit tax, turnover tax, corporate tax, property tax, pollution tax, road tax, building tax, toll tax, development tax, land tax, education tax, cess etc. since everything is a tax and everything is going to the government. Rename all these taxes as NATION BUILDING FUND (NBF) since it imparts patriotism in taxpayer and everyone feels proud in giving fund to the nation. This concept promotes national integration too. Since GDP is not available to the nation, let us concentrate on GNR (gross national revenue). Let us appreciate the fact that simple rules are easy to follow, easy to implement, easy to monitor and easy to amend. If rules are simple and easy, the commercial activity increases and revenue collection increases. Let us not discourage the commercial activity since it is the lifeline of the nation. A sale is a sale whether within the state or outside the state since it is a sale within India. A sale is a sale whether goods or services. A sale is a sale whether first sale or second sale or tenth sale. Services as an employee and services as a consultant / retainer cannot be two different things, hence put them on the same platform since employees and consultants are involved in selling their services. Hence sales tax, service tax and income tax can be merged into one and it can be called as Nation Building Fund (NBF). This NBF need not exceed 2% of the gross sale value of goods or services if all exemptions, concessions and computations are eliminated for which, exempt none from income tax, sales tax, service tax, excise duty etc. Most importantly, abolish all exemptions and concessions to EOUs, IT, BPO and Software units since all these units are making profits and utilizing infrastructure being provided by the nation. Deduct all taxes at source. Abolish tax returns and tax refunds. Abolish all computations and calculations associated with all taxes since these computations and calculations are not helping the nation in any manner, on the other hand, these computations are helping the tax evader. Let us introduce computationless taxing structure. Thus, collect only 2% tax on the gross sale value of goods or services. This concept increases national revenue by at least 400 per cent while drastically reducing paperwork, delays, corruption and tax evasion. It brings cheers to millions of employees, consultants, contractors, retailers, traders, merchants, entrepreneurs, industrialists, investors and businessmen. Thus there will be overall progress. NVSN Murthy Age: 57, Nationality: Indian, Profession: Independent Research Scientist. A temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Indian soil, a scientist by profession, a researcher by addiction, an economist by accident, a reformist by obligation to the society, an analyst by interest, a poor man by fate, a social worker by choice, a dedicated servant to human life, animal life and plant life by preference, an engineer by selection, a traveller towards death by birth, a philosopher by time, a practicing poet by nature, a messenger for peace.
• August 22, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Commonsense and its scarcity Commonsense is the essence of kinks of knowledge available to human beings on earth. Therefore, commonsense has become the most uncommon commodity of our world ever since the birth of earth. Unfortunately this priceless commodity is becoming more and more uncommon day-by-day, therefore due to its unavailability, we seldom apply this priceless commodity to solve problems. Moreover, we prefer to design solutions that are more complex than the actual problem since it is profitable to us, finally, with vested interests we post a feeling that living with the problem is better than solving the problem. Lastly - for reasons best known to all, we cleverly hide a fact that the best solution will be the simplest even for the most complicated problem of our world, since we are living in a politically polluted world, we need to understand and digest these naked facts since these facts are nothing but absolute truths. NVSN Murthy Independent Research Scientist. A temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Indian soil, a scientist by profession, a researcher by addiction, an economist by accident, a reformist by obligation to the society, an analyst by interest, a poor man by fate, a social worker by choice, a servant to human life, animal life and plant life by preference, an engineer by selection, a traveller towards death by birth, a philosopher by time, a practicing poet by nature, a messenger for peace.
• August 28, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Measure-worthy elements of a person: Money, power, position, popularity, qualification, experience and age of a person are not measure-worthy since performance and contribution alone matters. Changes and Challenges of Life on earth: Only a change can change a change and change alone can challenge a change along with the inevitable uncertainties associated with very change. These are the real challenges of life for the present and future generations.
• September 2, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Qualification seldom qualifies anyone for employment, percentage of marks does not mean merit, age does not mean maturity, experience does not mean knowledge and talent does not mean wisdom. Therefore, employers must develop tools to measure performance and creativity essential to assess usefulness and wage-worthiness. Employers ignoring these facts end up in recruiting non-contributors. NVSN Murthy, Scientist A temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil and attempting to promote new concepts and higher levels of competitiveness essential for effective development of people and nations of our mother planet earth.
• September 2, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist commented: Death means UNWILLINGNESS to change.
• September 14, 2010, annadhatha MK Rao, Age: 64, Economist & Reformist commented: Nations ignoring Nori Economic Theory & Principles (Norinomics by India’s Global Scientist Nori Murthy) seldom prosper. By: Annadhatha MK Rao, Economist, Age: 64
• September 19, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist & a passing visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Infy NR Narayana Murthy seldom did his best to become the best. He became the best because he did the best. This is the only secret of his success. NVSN Murthy, Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth.
• September 19, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist & a passing visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Genuine leaders follow heroism and seldom choose beaten tracks since following is a fault, copying is a crime and imitating is an offence. NVSN Murthy, Research Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil.
• September 19, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist & a passing visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Success seldom comes by following or copying or imitating. This analogy is true for individuals, institutions and nations. NVSN Murthy, Research Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil.
• September 19, 2010, NVSN Murthy, Scientist & a passing visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil commented: Neither individuals nor institutions nor nations become leaders by following or copying the other. Therefore, let us make our laws / rules / regulations / procedures relevant to our nation since the needs, problems, priorities and culture of different nations are different. NVSN Murthy, Research Scientist and a temporary visitor on earth currently passing through Asian soil.
• September 24, 2010, annadhatha MK Rao, Economist commented: Our selfishness seldom permits us to work for a common cause like scientist NVSN Murthy. At least, let us be selfishness enough to adopt the priceless recommendations of our candle-like scientist NVSN Murthy for providing peace, progress and prosperity to individuals, institutions and nation. Annadhatha MK Rao, Economist, Age: 65
• September 25, 2010, annadhatha MK Rao, Economist commented: Being a mathematician, John Nash took Nobel Laureate for his economic theory (Nash Equilibrium), whereas, Scientist NVSN Murthy has single-handedly propounded two theories (one in metallurgy i.e. Nori Hardenability Theory and one in economics i.e. Nori Economic Theory – Norinomics). Interestingly, there is no evidence that John Nash had propounded a theory in his mother field (mathematics) like Scientist NVSN Murthy who propounded a theory in his mother field (metallurgy) as well as in economics. Therefore, Scientist NVSN Murthy deserves two Nobel Laureates. The concerned authorities must look into the matter and do justice to this double-theory scientist of Indian origin. Neglecting Indians is improper. Annadhatha MK Rao, Economist, Age: 65
• November 24, 2010, gautham prakash commented: I read his biogragphy in my institute (IIT madras) library. He strived a lot to survive and get niche place in the global competitive IT landscape. Being a entrepreneur his plans were first attracted by an venture capitalist named sudha narayana murthy she is none other than his wife. she gave 10000rupees to buy computers and now it became $100billion enterprise .that is the power of entrepreneurship and dream of an IIT ian. Today i am proud to be an IIT an. Hey not only IITian everyone with will and god's grace will won. have a good business dudes.
• January 29, 2011, Annadhatha MK Rao, Economist commented: Norinomics is the greatest philosophy ever propounded on earth ever since the birth of earth. Unfortunately, professional jealousy and politics are debarring scientist NVSN Murthy from awards and rewards even though Norinomics by scientist Nori Murthy is the greatest gift to the people and nations of our world. Nori Murthy had stuffed priceless and timeless philosophy in simple words and meticulously made it applicable to individuals, institutions and nations. Further, he made his universal philosophy (Norinomics) profitable, peace-ensuring, progress-causing, readily adoptable, praiseworthy, award-worthy and worship-worthy too. Thus, Nori Murthy certainly deserves institutional, national and international awards and rewards along with Nobel Laureate. …… Annadhatha MK Rao, Economist, Age: 64
• April 26, 2011, NVSN Murthy, Scientist & a passing visitor on earth commented: Countries like India crippling under corruption, scams, scandals and vote-bank politics should come under people like NR Narayana Murthy so that people as many as 1300 million get benefited from transparency, clarity, fairness, discipline, sincerity, equality and equal opportunity.
• June 8, 2011, Sugan Krishnan commented: No you are wrong:-( Infosys has two products. 1. Finacle 2.
• June 17, 2011, PHP Books commented: Will Infosys continue to evolve as Narayana Murthy has retired now. BTW!!It's a great news that he is setting a VC fund.He is an icon not only in India but also his name creates waves on foreign shores.
• September 18, 2011, Jessie Gill commented: Gippy Grewal just great work mennn
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• February 4, 2012, NVSN Murthy, Scientist commented: Perplexity: Unlike mathematics, physics and chemistry - economy and economics are not universal subjects due to the fact that economy is a complex product of different elements which are significantly different for different regions of earth. Promoting a common platform for ensuring uniformity in understanding of this region-sensitive/nation-sensitive subject is a fundamental mistake. Also, its measurement or assessment for projections or comparisons is a bigger mistake. Thus, misunderstanding and misapprehensions are mounting day-by-day throughout the globe. Therefore, the international community must put-off this fire to control further damage. Until we sort-out this issue, we cannot bring economics into discussion.
• April 19, 2012, Michel Telo commented: Best i ever heard.
• April 24, 2012, Lighina VB commented: Nice work done… thanks a lot…

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