Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

62697100 Facebook Users in India! But Does That Translate into Business?

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 [...]

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Visual.ly makes everyone a designer – The infographic creation tool

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 [...]

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Post Penguin SEO – Don’t hunt for links, instead plant and grow them naturally!

It has been a while since we are dealing with the Google panda and penguin update and the minor refresh after that. The Internet is abuzz with news that this is probably the end of SEO marketing. To all those doomsday predictors… this one’s for you! I agree that Google hates unnatural link building to [...]

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An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from Team Xminds…

After listening to Mark Zuckerberg speak at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt, here’s an open letter that I couldn’t resist from writing.  Before we move to the letter, here’s what Mark spoke: There will not be a Facebook phone…at least not in the distant future. HTML5 was indeed a mistake Its mobile apps are going to be [...]

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“Facebook Like” brought to life

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 [...]

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Startup success: Forget the recipe, focus on the ingredients.

Build it and they will come. Ever wondered the truth of that statement? Read on. You’re sat in a swanky coffeehouse with your mates on Sunday afternoon. Three espressos later and all present reach the conclusion that the idea is going to work. You’ve even worked out the reasons why it will work, just in [...]

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Life as a Startup Entrepreneur

They are more important to you than you are to them I happened to read this wonderful blog by Chris Lynch, the CEO of Thoughtful. He has mainly pointed out the difference between a tech and a sales guy and how one takes rejection. I really enjoyed reading it and thought would share my views [...]

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micro ISV

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 [...]

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