I am. And, so is the world. At least Financial Chronicle editorial thinks so (which apparently mentioned my post: Are You Guilty of Solving World’s Problems?).
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Introducing MyJugaad.in
I am very proud to announce MyJugaad.in, a web app that I have developed.
What is MyJugaad.in?
MyJugaad.in is a slideshow for webpages, which are sourced either from popular websites such as del.icio.us, digg, google news, etc. or from a list provided by you or from a RSS feed(s).
For example, here is a guided tour of all I have done in my life.
How can it be used?
It can be used in a variety of ways:
- For browsing the web lazily when you are too tired to do active browsing.
- As an alternate way to access your RSS feeds.
- To create a showcase of best posts of your blog.
- To make a tour exposing best parts of your website.
- Keeping track of best stories on the Internet.
So, people, have a look at MyJugaad.in and let me know your comments/feedback/criticism/bugs/rants/appreciation. Also, please note that the web app is still being tested, so if you come across any unexpected behavior, let me know ASAP. ...
For Startups: How to Find Problems to Solve?
For a startup, the most important thing is to find a pain-point. This pain-point refers to the real problems which people encounter in their daily life. Many a times, entrepreneurs mistake cool product or service for a serious startup. A startup can only be serious and successful when it solves a real problem.
But, isn’t finding a problem hard? The answer is no. I have compiled a list of resources and tips below to help you find real problems:
- Real-time Conversations.
- Twistori: A twitter mashup which shows in real-time what people hate, wish and love. This can be an interesting way to listen to people and get ideas about their pains.
- Summize: It lets you search twitter conversations in real-time and within a geographically defined area.
- Google Alerts: Setup an alert for the term ‘survey’ or its variations. You may also want to setup alerts for combinations such as ‘india survey’, ‘hr survey’, etc. Surveys usually reveal people’s pains. So, make sure you get updated about them.
- Search Google for terms such as ‘survey results‘ or variations of it.
- Free-reports.com: Loaded with advertisements but worth a try.
- AllAboutMarketResearch: Cluttered website but has some good pointers.
- Yahoo Answers: If properly used, it can reveal a lot of problems people are facing. What more, looking at people’s answers, you can mostly
Any more ideas on how to find problems which startups could solve? How do you do your research on this topic? ...
10 Blogs Indian Entrepreneurs Must Regularly Visit
In this post I give pointers to 10 (now 13) blogs which an Indian entrepreneur or anyone interested in setting up a startup in India must visit:
- Pluggd.in: Among other content, this blog has comprehensive posts on how to setup a business in India, legal issues surrounding this process and other considerations.
- VentureWoods: A community blog by the best of the best in Indian startup and venture capital circle.
- DesiStartups.in: A blog by my friend Prabhu.
- Startups.in: A (relatively) old and big blog.
- StartupDunia: Another good blog focusing on featuring Indian startups and startup related news
- IndianWeb2: As its name says, a blog on Indian Web2.0 startups.
- Proto.in Blog: The official blog of Proto.in.
- AlooTechie: Everything about technology and startups.
- WatBlog: This blog, written by my friend Rajiv, is mainly on news about startups and use of media by startups.
- Trak.in: Tracks Indian business and startup scene.
Have I missed any blogs? Please let me know.
By the way, if you want to avoid the hassle of individually visiting all the above mentioned blogs, have a look at StartupLogic India. It aggregates posts from all these blogs plus startup jobs, events, news, etc.
Update:
1. Vijay pointed to WebYantra (so called TechCrunch of India), Rajesh Jain’s Emergic (not updated as often but is extremely insightful).
2. Mahesh pointed out Wireless India blog which is more about Indian startups than wireless technology. ...
Indian Music Search
A good initiative by Guruji. They claim to have all Indian songs since 1932. Check out the service here.
PS: The songs cannot be downloaded. They can only be played.
Google Cannot Serve more than 1000 results
Today, I was wondering why people don’t go beyond initial 2-3 pages of their search. Maybe, it is the interface of the search engines which promotes such behavior or maybe people really don’t care to go beyond initial pages.
Whatever be the case. I decided to make a tool which will serve LAST page of Google’s search results. The idea was to grab the total number of search results from Google (for example, it is 91,300,000 for the term AJAX), divide the number by 10 and then modify the Google’s search URL accordingly (for example, for 2nd search page the URL is: http://www.google.com/search?q=ajax&start=10). So, my hypothesis was that the URL for last page for AJAX results would be http://www.google.com/search?q=ajax&start=9130000.
Well, try going to that URL. You will be in for a surprise. Google, in small-greyish-dull-looking-font, says “Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 9130000.)“.
Did I commit a crime for asking results starting from 9130000? If Google claims to have found so many results, why doesn’t it shows so many results? What is the use of saying “Results 1 – 10 of about 91,300,000 for ajax. (0.10 seconds)” if I can’t go beyond 1000 results?
Frustrating!
Introducing StartupLogic.com
Have a look at it here. Like it?
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WTF 2.0
Russell Beattie is really a very provocative and in-your-face writer. In his WTF 2.0 post, he writes about how deluded all those so-called entrepreneurs are who keep churning out amazing web apps without a slightest idea of how they are actually going to make money. If you are interested in Web 2.0, make sure you don’t miss his post.
Google it you moron
