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Hottest Indian Startups In 2012
- aioprisan 14y agothe site's consistently down, good thing there's Google cache
- girishso 14y agoIt's working now. Awesome list btw.
- nikunjk 14y agoFor people who can't access the website: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.nextbigwhat.com/growth-stage-indian-startups-297/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
- hpagey 14y agoGreat list of companies. IT is very heartening to see quality startups coming from India.
- tunetosuraj 14y agoThey are all useless startups. I just find Zomato and Ola as successful ones.
- sinofer 14y agoHave you even checked them out? I find Fusionchart and interviewstreet really good at what they do!
- tunetosuraj 14y agoFusionchart is not a startup. Interview Street on the other hand is really good. Forgot to mention that!
- snyp 14y agoFusioncharts is 10 years old is it still considered a startup?
- vicks711 14y agoAdd Komli and Visual Website Optimizer to the list.
- paraschopra 14y agoYep, it's hard to draw a line in the sand. We're 2.5 years old, profitable and happy. So don't know if we still qualify as a startup! :)
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- dchichkov 14y agoCompanies, with diversity in the culture would always win in the long term. Simply because these companies would be able to hire the best, from larger pool of candidates.
- aufreak3 14y agoQuestion for people in the Indian startup scene - It looks to me like the "acquire users first, figure out how to make money later" mindset does not fly in India in general. Would I be right in saying that such companies are a relative minority? How do Indian VCs respond to this mindset which is acceptable in silicon valley?
- manasgarg 14y agoYes. Such startups are a minority in India. Barring a few exceptions, VC money in India is available only for companies whose money making model is absolutely clear. That's why the startups that don't focus on making money early on, die out pretty soon.
- sudhirj 14y agoA lot of that is also tied in with Indian culture - the youth here cannot afford to have the let's-try-and-it's-okay-if-we-fail attitude. By their early twenties men are usually expected to have steady jobs by which they can provide for a spouse and a family. A lot of people do want to do startups, though - so they tend to gravitate towards ideas that provide a steady source of income, which will let them fulfil these obligations. Early (and arranged) marriages, social pressure to be financially secure... there's a lot of reasons for this kind of attitude.
- vicks711 14y agoDude you can hardly call companies like Komli and Visual Website Optimizer startups.
- sudhirj 14y agoCan't speak for Komli, but VWO is certainly a startup. They grew from a single digit headcount very recently and didn't exist too long before.
- linvin 14y agoThere are many more that normally haven't taken a deep marketing track (and that remains a challenge). For example check out colama - http://www.colama.net http://www.colama.net - using VMs for college education; http://www.emee.co.in/ http://www.emee.co.in/ (note - this is my employer's product) - gamification of enterprise workflows, and http://www.kpoint.com/ http://www.kpoint.com/ - which allows you to record videos and embed them in the website (and often used in many conferences, for internal company presentation).