Mar 03
Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?
Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.
Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are [...] Continue Reading…
written by vaneet
\\ tags: airtel, apple, evolution, innovation, kodak, microsoft, nokia, Product, Strategy, titan
Oct 27
Know what you want
Face your fears
Take Action
Be Persistent
Did I just save you some hours from going through those damn books
written by vaneet
\\ tags: action, fears, rules, Self Help
Jul 12
Make no mistake… I love Google. I love the way their products just work and over the years, have come to love their marketing as well… Remember ‘the 1 GB inbox’ Gmail… it carved out a space where apparently none existed… It was a perfect flanking attack which shocked [...] Continue Reading…
written by vaneet
\\ tags: Ad, Chrome, Google, marketing, positioning
Jun 19
The story makes me cry and makes me happy … makes me cry for the little angel thats now resting in peace and makes me happy for there are still people with hearts not made of stone …
Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying [...] Continue Reading…
written by vaneet
\\ tags: colby, pixar
Sep 25
As a relatively new web entrepreneur, one question that i get asked a lot – Why Fachak.com … or how fachak.com … and/or many variations of same question.
Thought would enumerate some guidelines that we had formed while selecting our domain name …
A .com
We were very clear right at the [...] Continue Reading…
written by vaneet
\\ tags: com, domain market, domain name, domain names, fachak, internet, marketing, syllables, web entrepreneur, website
Sep 11
Some more coverage … this time from Indian blogs
http://www.pluggd.in/2008/09/morpheus-ventures-new-batch-of-startups
http://www.watblog.com/2008/09/11/morpheus-ventures-announces-7-new-startups-under-its-y-combinator-model/
http://www.startupdunia.com/2008/09/10/morpheus-venture-partners-second-batch-of-companies/
http://news.digimouth.com/generic-news/morpheus-funds-7-indian-startups.html
http://www.alootechie.com/content/morpheus-venture-partners-selects-7-startups-mentoring
written by vaneet
\\ tags: coverage, fachak, Morpheus, MVP, pluggd.in, startupduniya, watblog
Sep 11
We, at Fachak, have been working with Sameer and Nandini from Morpheus Ventures for quite some time now. Today the association got its first PR coverage
Mashable decided to feature the second batch of MVP portfolio companies … that means Fachak + 6 more
Read the full article here.
http://mashable.com/2008/09/10/india-internet-investments/
written by vaneet
\\ tags: fachak, internet investments, Mashable, Morpheus, MVP
Sep 09
If you are like me, you too would have one main pc where you spend most of your time. I always had a lot of software installed on my pc – for email, for browsing, for my calendar and my daily dope of feed. I had setup each of [...] Continue Reading…
written by vaneet
\\ tags: bookmarks, browser bookmarks, Calendar, del icio us, desktop applications, Desktop Utilities, extension, feeddemon, Firefox, gmail, Google docs, Google Reader, RSS, Software, sunbird, synchornization, Thunderbird
Aug 21
Working at a startup would teach you many things. A founder is supposed to don many hats and simultaneously handle many jobs. Unlike well established companies, where you always have a specialized team at your disposal for each big or small task, a typical startup would never afford [...] Continue Reading…
written by vaneet
\\ tags: C-Salt, design, fachak, marketing, Principles of Design, product strategy, startup, Style, Website Design
Apr 25
Something I wrote two years back. Republishing it.
Cavincare for a lot of Indians is a household name. The originally Southern company that made its mark with Chic is now trying to expand its wings across…
‘Spinz’ the Talcum, Deo & Dab-on brand of Cavinkare is one such product which might [...] Continue Reading…
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\\ tags: brands, cavincare, positioning, spinz