Intent Gratification; Pay attention to your Attention

Seeded on Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:38 AM EDT (ideaxprofit.blogspot.com)

Attention Economy is emerging. With CBT showing interest in ROOTS exchange the slow transition from industrial society to knowledge society is taking shape.

business, internet, chicago-board, roots, commodity, intent, chicago-exchange, gratification, futures-market, media-wall-street-intersection

Project Green Hands: 114 million trees in 10 years

Seeded on Sat Sep 2, 2006 1:35 AM EDT (hindu.com)

Project Green Hands is an initiative by Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev to proactively save the environment by planting 114 Million trees over the next 10 years. This is relevant in the context of increasing economic activity in Tamil Nadu.

health, environment, tamil-nadu, isha, jaggi-vasudev, dhyanalinga, project-green-hands

Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Concept Arbitrage: Preface

Seeded on Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:15 AM EDT (sramanamitra.com)

Concept Arbitrage as a strategy to replicate the Silicon Valley success of ventue capital ecosystem. Tech ventures replicating the success of the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

business, india, venture-capital, funding, idea-execution-profit, startegy, early-stage-venture-funding, silicon-valley-in-india

Erasmic Venture Fund

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:53 AM EDT (erasmic.com)

Erasmic seems to be a promising venture fund with interest in seed stage ventures.

venture-capital, arts, idea, seed-funding, early-stage-funding

VentureWoods » Make India Movement

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:16 AM EDT (venturewoods.org)

A movement like quit india is emerging out here? Let us wait for the whitepaper.

business, equity, social-entrepreunership, craft-with-technology

Joy Of Innovation » Monitizing Your Blog

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:49 AM EDT (labsji.wordpress.com)

Making money out of blogging is a recuring theme on many blogs. And Google Adsense is the king of earning cash for your content. Yet I find that Text Link Ads is bette than Google Adsense.

web2-0, business, money, blogs, long-tail, monitizing-blogs, making-money-with-blogs

Idea, Execution, Profit :: Realestate as an Investment; Doing it in Chennai.

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:44 AM EDT (ideaxprofit.eponym.com)

With dollar becoming weeker realestate is becoming attractive. Realestate in emerging markets is a woenderful option for investment. Chennai is a prime location in emerging markets for realestate investment. Here where to buy in chennai is being explored.

business

Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Seed Funds in India

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:41 AM EDT (sramanamitra.com)

Good insight on seed funding. For practical tips Getting Seed Funding In India is a good pointer.

business, venture-capital, startup, prototype, idea, seed-funding, entrepreunership

Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Sequoia's Process

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:37 AM EDT (sramanamitra.com)

I love the clarity part.

business

Sramana Mitra on Strategy » Blog Archive » Entrepreneurship 101 For India

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:36 AM EDT (sramanamitra.com)

A must read for startups and startup wannabe in India

business

My Tryst With Destiny » Hypothetically speaking

Seeded on Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:27 AM EDT (mukundanm.wordpress.com)

This small hypo question got me started. I'm musing about it. With the nuclear deal in India getting hot, this is topical for the geeky intelectual types: Read one who speaks not to be understood.

science

Idea, Execution, Profit !: AOL Private Data Release Fiasco: Daffy Duck Did It

Seeded on Mon Aug 7, 2006 10:50 AM EDT (ideaxprofit.blogspot.com)

AOL releasing private search data for everyone to download has created anger and fear amids AOL and non AOL users. Here is dummies look at the event.

technology

Raising capital: Six tips on Eating Fear

Seeded on Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:19 AM EDT (cambrianhouse.com)

Interesting read on capital, fear and investing.

business

Seed funding in India; Prove your idea with a prototype

Seeded on Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:33 AM EDT (ideaxprofit.blogspot.com)

Tips on getting seed funding and startup capital. The cost of capital is very very low considering that it is a grant. The time spent in obtaining the grant is worth the effort as it helps to crystalize the innovation.

vc, business, venture-capital, intellectual-property, innovation, entrepreneurship, seed-funding, cost-of-capital, tepp, tifac

Why Startups Condense in America

Seeded on Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:48 AM EDT (paulgraham.com)

Interesting account of why startups happen and thrive in Silicon Valley.

vc, business, immigration, startup

Sitepal Takes $4 Million, Plugs into MySpace

Seeded on Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:16 PM EDT (Mashable!)

Feeding the MySpace beast is really catching on. And this is one good way to feed the Monster.

business, voicesnap

Confused Of Calcutta » Blog Archive » Four Pillars: Venezuela: One way to get people to think Opensource

Seeded on Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:40 AM EDT (confused of calcutta)

Interesting to know how the opensource training is going to evolve.

technology, opensource, national-it-strategy, opensource-as-strategic-advantage

staticbrain.com » Blog Archive » George Bush Days Left In Office

Seeded on Mon May 8, 2006 6:04 AM EDT (staticbrain.com)

Bush hatred + little coding gets you a countdown.

george-bush, anti-war, cuntdown

Bicycling at Malmo the Civitas Way

Seeded on Sun May 7, 2006 11:40 AM EDT (-)

They have a active bike share program, a city wide rent anywhere, leave anywhere rental network. And a cyclist barometer to measure and display the number of bikers passing through the city centre.

bicycling, clean-urban-transport, micro-enterprise

The Hindu News Update Service

Seeded on Mon May 1, 2006 10:54 AM EDT (hinduonnet.com)

What is the use of compensation, this and that. If we cannot save the life of an engineer working out there.

Khaleej Times Online

Seeded on Mon May 1, 2006 10:51 AM EDT (khaleejtimes.com)

How dare they kill our engineer! I am outraged.

RFID Enabled Purse - Gizmodo

Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:55 AM EDT (Gizmodo)

Hey this is something similar to what I am working on. I like it. Same strategy as me. Try to address a small subset. And build market from there.

Blue Screen of Death: an interesting book on startup failures

Seeded on Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:10 AM EDT (bluescreen.alchemya.com)

I am looking forward for this book. Booming economise like India where there is going to be a lot of startup action needs wisdom on startup failures. It will do the economy a lot of good.

venture, startup, failures, humour, friends-and-familys-role-in-startup

Go to bed married, wake up divorced | Reuters.com

Seeded on Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:26 AM EDT (Reuters)

There is something to learn in this indeed. Be careful what you say in your sleep. It is said that maximal spousal attention is given to what is uttered during sleep! On a different plane, dreams are reflections of inner desires.

religion, islamic-law, sensationalization, sleepy-divorce

The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : A framework for the future

Seeded on Mon Apr 10, 2006 10:11 AM EDT (hindu.com)

The prompt response from all sections sometimes evoked surprise in readers — and always appreciation, which was gratifying. So the Readers' Editor really functions, exclaimed one reader.

self-regulation, readers-editor

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