Forbes Column 2010: India’s Rising Tech Stars

Zero In this week features some entrepreneurs building product companies in India. You may have already read about them here on Deal Radar 2009. Read India’s Rising Tech Stars to find out more. I would love to see more examples like these to feature on Deal Radar and on Forbes. Also, there are two companies:

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Deal Radar 2009: Wirkle

By Guest Author Shailesh Otari Wirkle is a mobile consulting firm specializing in the end-to-end development of mobile applications. The company provides application development (both client- and server-side) on a host of platforms such as the iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. Applications range from social networking to enterprise productivity. The company was founded by Varun Khurana,

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Deal Radar 2009: MAIA Intelligence

By Guest Author Shailesh Otari Deal Radar wraps up 2009 in India, with two more companies that have crossed the $1 million revenue mark. The first is business intelligence (BI) software product company called MAIA Intelligence. The company’s primary offering is a data visualization layer that provides BI in the form of actionable information. The company

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The Post-American World

I just finished reading Fareed Zakaria’s The Post American World. It explores the ‘rise of the rest’ – China, India, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, Turkey – and America’s role in this rather more balanced world where it no longer has undisputed hegemony.

November 13 Brainstorming With The Indian Media on Entrepreneurship Development

It was perfectly worthwhile to wake up at 3:30 a.m. and head to Cisco’s telepresence room in Santa Clara this morning at the crack of dawn. What followed was an animated discussion with friends – old and new – in the Indian media. For me, above and beyond everything else, it was great fun brainstorming

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VisionSpring: Successful Scaling Of A MicroFranchise (Part 2)

By Guest Author Praneetha Manthravadi [The first part of the article introduced VisionSpring, what it is, and how it works. Today’s post explains how microentrepreneurs make profits from the “Business in a Bag” system and how readers can be a part of VisionSpring’s mission.] So, what kind of profits do these microentrepreneurs make? It depends

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VisionSpring: Successful Scaling Of A Microfranchise (Part 1)

By Guest Author Praneetha Manthravadi [Praneetha’s article is both a profile of an organization for microentrepreneurship and a call to action. Read on to find out what VisionSpring does and how you can get involved.] VisionSpring, previously known as the Scojo Foundation, was started in 2001 by Dr. Jordan Kassalow. The organization was started from

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Deal Radar 2009: ChalkPad Technologies

We continue our series on Indian companies in the education sector. The company featured today, ChalkPad Technologies, is a provider of education enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions to schools, colleges and universities. It is also a consultancy on how to leverage IT in an educational setting.