A rant about NEN Hottest Startups and RadioVerve - Part 1

I have been following NEN and RadioVerve for quite sometime now. Today RadioVerve was listed as one of the nominees for the NEN hottest startup awards. I have to admit that I was a big fan of radioverve’s music (yea i don’t care enuf to capitalize some characters) since they were called infinity radio. Good […]

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Printo : Redefining Online and Offline Printing. Really?

Printo is a Seedfund and Sequoia funded company and according to their website they are
Printo provides businesses with world-class printing solutions. We are:

India’s first and fastest growing network of print and document shops.
India’s first branded retail chain that provides services of international standard.
A professional, board-managed company co-founded […]

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Google Opensocial: Is it so open afterall?

Internet Revolution has a great post on Google and its top 10 failures. Opensocial is listed at number 4 and I cannot agree more. With all the hoopla around the launch, it took orkut about 7 months to launch opensocial applications and even if we ignore for a minute the fact that developing on orkut […]

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Review of Airtel Mobile Office - Works but Sucks

Airtel Mobile Office basically helps you connect your mobile to laptop and browse the internet. They have two plans, one for Rs 20 a day and other for Rs 99 a week with unlimited browsing in both plans. I have been using it for 3 weeks now and here are the pros and cons
Pros

Browsing speed […]

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Proto.in from the eyes of a presenter

Nithya and I attended proto.in, the startup event on 18th and 19th July. It was a very interesting experience. A lot of things I loved .. a lot of things that I found very wierd :)
However before I begin, I would like to mention that the organizing team works very hard at making this event […]

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See you at Proto in Delhi

Nithya and I will be attending proto.in on 18th and 19th July in Delhi. If you are around, we would love to meet you and talk to you about Muziboo, life, universe and everything
If you are around, call me at 97410-26443 or email me (prateek AT muziboo DOT com) or sms me. Hope to see […]

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Access Airtel GPRS on windows xp using imate windows mobile

I am leaving on a long trip soon and therefore decided to get some form of internet connectivity on the move. The most popular option seems to be a reliance or tata CDMA USB modem. The only downside is that you have to pay for a whole year if you want the card free. In […]

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The story of a redesign - Part 1 - Why?

Last few months have been very interesting as we had been working hard on a new Muziboo that we finally launched yesterday. It was very exciting because this is the first Muziboo design where we have worked with a professional designer and there has been a lot of learning involved. This will be a series […]

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10 things only a startup experience can teach you

I have written about why do a startup and also about life in the garage and both the posts have a recognizable negative tone. However startups are pretty interesting and generally a great learning experience. I therefore thought of writing a post on what doing a startup can teach you that you cannot easily learn […]

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Getting Real and avoiding useless features

Getting Real is one of my favorite books on writing software and I love reading it every now and then. However when it comes to real projects, one is very likely to skip the advice given in that book. Its very easy to overbuild a product especially if you love coding. I have seen this […]

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