Archive for December, 2007
Tagged Economy – XBRL – Emerging Opportunity
I see a range of emerging opportunity for Software and IT services companies to enhance their existing products, develop new ones or provide services around XBRL – eXtensible business reporting language.
What is XBRL?
Online Marketing Industry: Needs Talent
According to various estimates, Online Marketing including Search Engine Marketing industry is poised to grow at a phenomenal rate in the near future. According to SEMPO, Search Engine Marketing industry alone is projected to grow to over US$ 18b by 2011 from US$ 9.4b in 2006.
Social Commerce continued…2.0
And the reasons Social Commerce is the next big opportunity;
* Over a billion people in networks who belong to the top of the pyramid in workforces, business, government and communities of consumers.
* Networks of people in the next billion
* BOP of 4 billion people who represent a very large market
Who says early stage Entrepreneurs are only looking for funding?
Entrusted with the responsibility of evangelizing the Innovation fund that will shortly be launched by NASSCOM and ICICI, my first stopping points were the TIE events held at Hyderabad and Delhi. While the events themselves were hugely successful going by the number of participants, the enthusiasm and the buzz that surrounded them were testimony to the entrepreneurial spirit that has gripped parts of the nation over the last decade. It was to us at NASSCOM a validation of sorts that we were doing the right thing in setting up a fund that would spur innovation and that the timing was right. One key raw material required for an innovation exists – the idea coupled with the entrepreneurial spirit. We were bringing in the other two – seed capital and the requisite guidance. The combination is what we are convinced will set off those great game-changing innovations from India that so many of us have been waiting for.
Doing Business in Japan
As part of NASSCOM’s Emerging Companies Forum – Marketing, this was the 30th meeting of NCR companies on 14th December 2007 (Friday) on “Doing Business in Japan“
There was a good blend of professionals gathered to listen to Ashoke Ghosh, President, Delivery Services of GrapeCity India.
Ashoke Ghosh, GrapeCity
Attendees at the forum
Breaking the routine introductions – Apply ‘Kiruba Style’
In the emerging companies forum conducted during the month of November 07, Kiruba Shankar , adopted a novel – fun way to do introductions which is generally a mundane task in most meetings. So, I decided to name it after him – Kirubha Style Introductions.
Have a Second Line of Leadership – Surviving to Scaling Up
Unlike most of the contributors in this forum I am trying to express my experience as I am going through it and am in the middle of it. Second line of leadership is something that I believed in since late early stage of the company and we did reasonably well in surrounding ourselves with one–
Social Commerce is the next big opportunuity?
What is Social Commerce and why is it in my opinion the next big opportunity?
My definition;”Social Commerce is bi-direction (Intra & Inter Community) commerce and business based on closed Community relationships, C2B, B2C, C2C” (Read “C” as Community). http://fellows.rdvp.org/node/1965
Why in my opinion is Social Commerce going to be the next big platform for the SMBs and Individuals with networks to scale and be a big global market opportunity. The reasons are simple;
Look for the TACID ones….
In most of the forums I have attended, there has been continuous stress on the need to share and learn from each others experiences. In my observation, almost all the time, people refer to challenges / experiences like:
- How do I get the Visa processed for Australia?
- What are the legal issues in starting up an office in Germany?
NASSCOM’s 100 IT Innovators – 2007 announced
We have announced the finalists for the 100 IT Innovators for 2007. The showcase of Innovative companies profiles some of the large, medium and small organizations that have made innovation an important part of their growth strategies.
