What caught my eye on my Gmail chat window was this message: “Hiring: $1500 Referral Fee.” I had not seen that kind of message in a long time. Why, it reminded me of the mid 1990s when companies could not find the right people and it was not uncommon for companies to offer a referral [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ideas’
By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 18th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Interviews, Technology, Web 2.0
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Start-ups, Technology
Just a couple of months I did a Q&A with Deepak Shenoy of Moneyoga and their online business model for their financial startup. Deepak was quite gung-ho about his startup and was looking to raise money. But, within a few weeks of publishing the interview I got a note from Deepak that they had to [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 12th, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Technology, Web 2.0
Pingdom’s recent post about Social Network Popularity Around The World has created quite a bit of buzz. This mini-study looked at the popularity of some well-known social networks around the world. An important thing to remember is that this study was based on search and not by the number of [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Food, Ideas
You have heard of carbon footprint. Have you by any chance heard of water footprint?
“The water footprint of a nation shows the total volume of water that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of the nation,” according to waterfootprint.org. For instance, it takes 140 liters to produce 1 cup [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Entrepreneur Interviews, Global Voices, Ideas, Start-ups, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
Amra Tareen heads Allvoices, a San Francisco-based citizen media startup. After months of being their beta version, AllVoices released its brand new website a few days ago. Allvoices raised $4.5 million in venture capital funding last year.
Prior to founding Allvoices, Amra was with Sevin Rosen, a venture capital firm and before that she worked [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Ideas, India, Infrastructure, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Technology
India has the fastest growing mobile subscriber base in the world and is now ranked 2nd right after China. In order to grow its mobile consumer base Indian and Chinese telecom operators have recognized there is a need to reach out to the rural areas and provide viable, sustainable and efficient telecom infrastructure before they [...]