Yes, you heard that right! When it comes to numbers, India comes 3rd in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by country. Although that’s just around 5% (and a little more)  of the Indian population the numbers are still huge. Not surprising to me because almost everyone I know (and I don’t live in a [...]

Infographics are becoming popular each day because of their ability to make the readers get interested to read even the most boring statistics. Though the concept of infographics is around us for a long time, the idea was not widely used because of the main reason that creation of the infographics needed the work of [...]

When Xminds participated in Demo Asia 2012, we wanted to show-case the company in the start-up world in a creative manner. Our idea was to create something simple letting the world know our area of expertise which prompted the team to think SOCIAL and what better than FB in that space. Our idea was to [...]

April 9th 2012, a mundane Monday morning we woke up to the hot news of Facebook buying Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Now the million dollar question, What was it about Instagram that made it worth a $1B acquisition by Facebook? All the pioneers in the industry are pondering over this question [...]

One of the common mistakes made by entrepreneurs is assuming they have just come up with a unique idea that is going to save the world from a common problem. They get so passionate about the idea that they often forget to validate this with their target audience. This results in them building something that [...]

In recent years social media has emerged like never before. Initially social media came into the picture just as a platform where people can meet and share their thoughts which is more or less oriented towards themselves. It was (Technically it is) a place for meeting people whom you already know. During the course of [...]

An attempt to identify the list of companies that were successfully run by single owners. Some of the companies that are/were operated alone by the founder and that too profitably, later on they added more people to the team.  There could be more and it would be great if you could add them here. 1.Plenty [...]

Years have shown the results of outsourcing. Outsourcing today has become a necessity for many companies as it has helped them on cost reduction, quality improvement, and detailed structure of the outsourced process. Testing phase is the last phase for any company to launch their heir in the market. The expertise in this field have [...]

With the implementation of LPG; liberalization, privatization and globalization and incensing competition, the service industry has boosted up to an unexpected level. Earlier, the industry used to have people assigned to particular tasks but with the growth of technology, expertise in the particular field became a benefit over time. Success of the business depends upon [...]

When a project matures and you see it as conclusion of a project, it actually is not closing of the project. It is like an inauguration of a new project. An accomplished project gives ideas of new projects where data can be used as a record for the upcoming projects. Fiscally, it helps in scheming [...]