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iLeher - All about interenet industry in IndiaiLeher - All about interenet industry in IndiaLeher in Hindi means “wave”. iLeher is a guide to catch that high rising wave of Internet in India. Through analysis of news and events, case studies, comparisons of features, guest commentary and interviews with key players, readers will gain an in Articles
Role of discounts/coupons in online retail
2011-10-22 17:42:00 eCommerce market in India is booming right now. Few top reasons why this has been possible are: Increase in the Internet user base (mobile Internet usage as well as broadband penetration) Evolution of the ecosystem required for supporting online retailing (third parties providing logistics, payment options, affiliate marketing, coupons) Flurry of investment in this space. There is some ... More About: Retail , Coupons , Discounts , Online , Role
Group Buying: Not meant for the Indian market?
2011-05-25 19:04:00 With a plethora of group buying websites flooding the Indian markets, E-commerce is certainly on the rise. According to the Internet and Mobile Association of India the market grew 70% from Rs. 19,688 crores in 2009 to Rs. 31,598 crores in 2010 and is expected to grow another 47% to Rs. 46,520 crores by the ... More About: Buying , Market
Crederity ? Trust matters.
2009-03-02 08:27:00 I recently got a chance to talk to Rakesh Antala. Co-founder and CEO of Crederity. Most recently, he was Partner & COO of Intivia, a healthcare services startup serving organizations across the United States. In 2004 he started looking for a totally innovative idea with a business plan that he wanted to run through a ... More About: Trust , Matters
Whet your appetite with Foodiebay.com
2008-12-14 05:21:00 If you are in Delhi area and you haven?t heard already about Foodiebay.com, it is a great place to find, research and review your food choices before you head out to get some grub. Recently we had an opportunity to talk to Deepinder Goyal. Deepinder is one of the founding members of the startup out ...
Whet your appetite with Foodiebay.com
2008-12-14 05:21:00 If you are in Delhi area and you haven’t heard already about Foodiebay.com, it is a great place to find, research and review your food choices before you head out to get some grub. Recently we had an opportunity to talk to Deepinder Goyal. Deepinder is one of the founding members of the startup out ...
QnA with Morpheus Venture Partners
2008-11-03 09:29:00 Morpheus Venture Partners aims to provide mentorship and advice to early stage startups. We recently got a chance to speak with the founders Sameer Guglani and Nandini Hirianniah. Here is the transcript: How are you different from a typical seed/angel investor? MVP is a currently only a Business Advisory Firm. We have plans of raising a fund ... More About: Venture Capital , Morpheus
QnA with Morpheus Venture Partners
2008-11-03 09:29:00 Morpheus Venture Partners aims to provide mentorship and advice to early stage startups. We recently got a chance to speak with the founders Sameer Guglani and Nandini Hirianniah. Here is the transcript: How are you different from a typical seed/angel investor? MVP is a currently only a Business Advisory Firm. We have plans of raising a fund ... More About: Venture Capital , Morpheus
Do you have a story to tell about your business?
2008-09-23 19:39:00 Here is a great opportunity to tell your story of the challenges you faced and how you tackled them while doing business in an underserved market. I am sure there are a lot of entrepreneurs in India who might have a story or two that they can tell. Call for entries open right now. 500-1000 word ... More About: Business , Story
Do you have a story to tell about your business?
2008-09-23 19:39:00 Here is a great opportunity to tell your story of the challenges you faced and how you tackled them while doing business in an underserved market. I am sure there are a lot of entrepreneurs in India who might have a story or two that they can tell. Call for entries open right now. 500-1000 word ... More About: Business , Story
How Indian companies can build their brand during recession 2.0?
2008-09-14 09:40:00 With US economy taking a big hit with subprime mortgage and credit crunch, concerns of oil and election not helping either, everyone in India is talking about what does US recession mean for them. A very timely piece from our guest contributor Ranjith Pavithran. Ranjith is founder of the web consulting firm Kapston. Read on ... More About: Companies , Indian , Brand , Build , Recession
How Indian companies can build their brand during recession 2.0?
2008-09-14 09:40:00 With US economy taking a big hit with subprime mortgage and credit crunch, concerns of oil and election not helping either, everyone in India is talking about what does US recession mean for them. A very timely piece from our guest contributor Ranjith Pavithran. Ranjith is founder of the web consulting firm Kapston. Read on ... More About: Companies , Indian , Brand , Build , Recession
TringMe.com - convergence calling?
2008-03-30 16:57:00 We spoke to Yusuf Motiwala from TringMe.com recently. The conversation covered various aspects including the technology involved, the revenue model, funding and staffing. iLeher: How did TringMe come about? Yusuf: We were looking to build a Voice 2.0 platform. This was the TringSwitch that we were planning to push to enterprises so that they could support all ... More About: Convergence , Calling
TringMe.com - convergence calling?
2008-03-30 16:57:00 We spoke to Yusuf Motiwala from TringMe.com recently. The conversation covered various aspects including the technology involved, the revenue model, funding and staffing. iLeher: How did TringMe come about? Yusuf: We were looking to build a Voice 2.0 platform. This was the TringSwitch that we were planning to push to enterprises so that they could support all ... More About: Convergence , Calling
Revisiting some old favorite topics - eCommerce and web2.0
2008-02-11 07:16:00 Yes I know, things have been slow at iLeher for some time. As Vivek pointed out earlier, the team members have been busy individually in their own stuff. Anyways,`I wanted to assure our audience that we are not fading away. The Internet activity in Indian space is as buzzing as ever. I was catching up ... More About: Ecommerce , Topics , Favorite
Revisiting some old favorite topics - eCommerce and web2.0
2008-02-11 07:16:00 Yes I know, things have been slow at iLeher for some time. As Vivek pointed out earlier, the team members have been busy individually in their own stuff. Anyways,`I wanted to assure our audience that we are not fading away. The Internet activity in Indian space is as buzzing as ever. I was catching up ... More About: Ecommerce , Topics , Favorite
VAKOW is not international; good it is social !!
2008-01-08 07:54:00 I wrote about VAKOW earlier and how much I liked their interface; but I could never use it to forward these awesome jokes to my friends in India. This new year I wanted to wish family/friends in India through SMS. I wanted to do the same thing around Diwali. Every time I want to do ... More About: Social , International , Good , Not I
VAKOW is not international; good it is social !!
2008-01-08 07:54:00 I wrote about VAKOW earlier and how much I liked their interface; but I could never use it to forward these awesome jokes to my friends in India. This new year I wanted to wish family/friends in India through SMS. I wanted to do the same thing around Diwali. Every time I want to do ... More About: Social , International , Good
Interesting comments @ older posts !!
2008-01-06 08:45:00 I have been approving some interesting comments on our earlier posts. But I have seen that they do not usually stir interesting conversation. If the comment is a direct question to the company/people mention in the post or some earlier comment, they usually don’t get replies. We do show the latest comments in the sidebar ... More About: Interesting , Comments , Posts
Interesting comments @ older posts !!
2008-01-06 08:45:00 I have been approving some interesting comments on our earlier posts. But I have seen that they do not usually stir interesting conversation. If the comment is a direct question to the company/people mention in the post or some earlier comment, they usually don’t get replies. We do show the latest comments in the sidebar ... More About: Interesting , Comments , Posts , Eres
Analyzing my 2007 predictions
2007-12-31 08:55:00 Its time to take a look at my 10 predictions for 2007 before I can welcome 2008. Here is what I think how things shaped against my predictions. I will put (*) in front of the prediction number where a single (*) means not worth talking about in 2007 to (*****) meaning the prediction is ... More About: Predictions , Anal
Analyzing my 2007 predictions
2007-12-31 08:55:00 Its time to take a look at my 10 predictions for 2007 before I can welcome 2008. Here is what I think how things shaped against my predictions. I will put (*) in front of the prediction number where a single (*) means not worth talking about in 2007 to (*****) meaning the prediction is ... More About: Predictions
Guest post by Ranjith Pavithran - founder of web consulting firm Kapston
2007-11-14 09:21:00 On “web-to-store” shopping behavior Research by Kapston.com, an Internet business consulting firm in association with GadgetsGuru.com and HolidayHangouts.com on products listed online and websites in India indicates that people spend 10 - 20% more on products they don?t research online. Indian consumers are embracing Internet increasingly to research products, before making a visit to a local store; ... More About: Consulting , Founder , Post , Guest
Vakow - it is all about execution !!
2007-11-02 04:05:00 I cannot stress the title enough. I wrote about SMS forwarding back in January. Here is an excerpt from the post “sms backup and storage“. “- Service should be dirt cheap, almost free. This needs innovation at multiple levels. - Service should be transparent to the end user. Something like automatic backup at the gateway. Just like an ... More About: Execution
IndiaKaHero: Scaling online talent contests.
2007-10-29 01:31:00 India Ka Hero is trying to ride the popularity of TV reality contests and taking it online. It has four talent contests and it is offering prizes in each contest. Users will vote for each entry and they will select a winner based on these votes. Votes can be casted only by registered users and ... More About: Contests , Online , Talent , Lent
Is there room for another photo site?
2007-09-16 12:44:00 A new photo printing site called ZoomIn was launched last week. Sunny Balijepalli, the fabled co-founder of Half.com (which was sold to eBay for $350 million in 2000) is the CEO and co-founder of the company. I for one am surprised that people still see an opportunity in the crowded online photo printing space. From ... More About: Photo , Site , Room
A social approach for protecting privacy
2007-09-09 19:29:00 Here is an interview submitted by one of our readers Ullas Sankhla. He talked with the founders of BanKaro, a recently launched social mobile spam filtering service. BanKaro is trying to build a community of trusted individuals for sharing phone numbers of unsolicited marketing callers. The service has just launched, so it remains to be ... More About: Social , Privacy , Prot , Riva
Interivew with Sandeep Murthy at Cleartrip.com
2007-08-24 23:00:00 The online travel business is a fast growing market segment due to increased travel in India as well as growing number of travel service providers like airlines and hotels. This market segment is also competitive with multiple players including travel agencies like Yatra, MakeMytrip and travel search portals/aggregators like iXigo, Zoomtra. Apart from these startups, ...
Indiatimes? push into personalized home page
2007-08-14 20:38:00 Do we see Indian portals opening up? And trying to cater not only to masses but also to niches? A personalized home page, according to me, helps us consume the content we are most interested in, at one place. It also enables us to decide the way our stuff gets displayed. Most importantly, ... More About: Home , Page , Home Page , Sona , Push
?We are sitting at the verge of a perfect storm? - Darpan Munjal on ecommer
2007-08-05 08:05:00 Ecommerce has been one of the recurring themes here at iLeher. On this topic we have have covered various stats, strategies, and new ventures. The reason why its so interesting to study this area is its at nascent stages, its upcoming and most importantly its rise will create new avenues for generating revenue for Internet ... More About: Storm , Perfect , Perfect Storm
Interview with Aloke Bajpai of iXigo
More articles from this author:2007-07-22 21:43:00 Aloke Bajpai is a founder of iXigo, an Indian travel search engine that currently serves domestic airline bookings. The online travel business is a fast growing market segment due to increased travel in India as well as growing number of travel service providers like airlines and hotels. This market segment is also competitive with multiple players ... More About: Interview 1, 2, 3, 4 |
