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How to improve the personality skills of students in India?

bgmahesh — Sat, 26 May 2012 09:47:20 +0000

Today’s Mint carried an article “Blame it on the system” which was a review of New York Times article “An Open Letter to India’s Graduating Classes“. Both articles are an interesting read and a must for parents+students. While India “produces” a huge number of graduates a very small percentage of these are employable. Many get rejected for academic reasons but majority get rejected for not having the “other essential skills”.

Do students in India look for summer jobs?

bgmahesh — Thu, 24 May 2012 11:49:42 +0000

Students looking for summer jobs in the US (and other western countries) is very common. I got a call recently from a reporter asking me how popular this topic was on our classified site click.in.

Asana – a simple and good project management, task-based tool

bgmahesh — Tue, 22 May 2012 08:16:37 +0000

Mint had carried an article today “From a Facebook founder, a social network for work” [originally from NY Times]. It is always interesting to read about how one can improve your productivity. The article is about the task management tool ‘Asana’ but in view of valuations I guess everyone wants to attach the word ‘social network’ to their product.

The New Bing is pretty cool

bgmahesh — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:31:55 +0000

There is only one alternative to Google (if at all), that is Bing. I have used it extensively but very frustrated about Bing just refusing to crawl our sites at a much faster rate.

Its time to pay more attention to women in India, I mean for the mobile apps

bgmahesh — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:14:17 +0000

Analytics these days has become very crucial for every industry. And when it comes to men vs women everybody notices it with great interest. Nielsen’s recent report “Smartphones in India: Web Browsing is for Men, Texts are For Women” has highlighted the smartphone usage of men and women in India. To summarize,

Sprite TV Ad reminds me of my hostel days in Mysore

bgmahesh — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:52:37 +0000

These days TV commercials are very entertaining. During my hostel days in Mysore I recall watching ads which said “buy a toothpaste and get one matchbox free”, the ad was serious about the offer but it was hilarious for us. That was the level of creativity during those days.

Will online only private fashion labels ecommerce succeed in India?

bgmahesh — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 06:55:09 +0000

Last Friday Mint carried an article “Private fashion labels flood the Net“. Ecommerce players in India have been continuously experimenting (or innovating) to crack the puzzle. For e.g. Myntra was into corporate sales are now in retail, exclusively.in (which was for NRIs only) is now concentrating on their private label Sher Singh (for domestic market only). Deal sites are slowly converting to normal ecommerce sites.

Mobile advertising spend in India: $35.4 million for 2011

bgmahesh — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:35:36 +0000

Mobile ventures are the hottest topic in India today, it might get hotter after the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook for $1b. While the mobile internet usage (WAP & App) has been growing well in India the monetization has been a challenge on the mobile.

How much do you about the ageing & kid population in India?

bgmahesh — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 10:25:51 +0000

Aging Population of India

According to Mint’s article “Demographic explosion in the greying population” India’s elderly population is growing,

Population of people aged 60-80 to increase by 326% between 2000 and 2050 and those over 80 years by 700%

Poll: Only 17% show preference for ecom in English

bgmahesh — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:07:05 +0000

A particular VC has been asking me for a very long time, “Mahesh, what is your take on ecommerce in Indic? Will Indian internet users accept an Indian language ecommerce site?”. I have been giving him my views but I did not have any data to back.