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Roundtable Recap: April 3 – Rendezvous In Bangalore

On April 3rd, I spent an entire day with entrepreneurs in Bangalore, and we did three roundtables with 15 entrepreneur pitches. These roundtables were held at the Citrix Executive Briefing Center, hosted by Ravi Gururaj, Vice President of Products for the Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix and also head of the Citrix Startup Accelerator in

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Building the World’s First Mobile Rewards Network: Brian Wong, 20-Year-Old Founder of Kiip (Part 3)

Sramana: When you were starting the company, how did you get your first customer and validate that your concept was indeed going to be effective? Brian Wong: Our first customer was Vitaminwater. Their ex-CMO was an investor in Kiip.

1M/1M Video: Building India’s Entrepreneurship Pipeline

How does India go from 2000-3000 entrepreneurs to a pipeline of 100,000? Based on presentation at ISBA 2012.

Building the World’s First Mobile Rewards Network: Brian Wong, 20-Year-Old Founder of Kiip (Part 2)

Sramana: Once you recognized that people did not like advertisements in games and had identified the concept of recognizing achievement, what was your next step? Brian Wong: I immediately vowed to not do anything with ads. We don’t do anything with them at all. Our entire model centers on awards. We create a reciprocal connection

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Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge 2012

As you are aware the Microsoft Bizspark Startup Challenge 2012 is now on. Microsoft invites startups or developers who have cool ideas in the space of Cloud and Mobile to submit their ideas to us. A brief of the event is given below for your ready reference. “Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge is an effort

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Building the World’s First Mobile Rewards Network: Brian Wong, 20-Year-Old Founder of Kiip (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Brian Wong is the founder of Kiip.me, a mobile rewards program. Prior to founding Kiip, he worked at Digg in business development. His five months there ended when he was laid off because of cost-cutting measures, an event that motivated him to start his own company.

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From New Zealand to Silicon Valley: Victoria Ransom’s Wildfire Journey (Part 7)

Sramana: If you had a daughter in her early years of school right now, what would you do? Victoria Ransom: I would encourage her to study sciences. Sramana: You could encourage, but she might not respond. The peer environment does not always support that. Victoria Ransom: Very true. It also may not be what her

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