Comments on: TATA NEN Hottest Startup Awards - Reality voting contest for India based startups

By: suneel

suneel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:58:23 +0000

ok thank u… nice blog

Edvantage India
http://www.edvantageindia.in
hyderabad

By: Vikas Sah

Vikas Sah — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:05:42 +0000

My blog post about misguiding comment by expert author in hottest startups contest got me a call from NEN but it did not resolve the issue. I have updated my blog post http://www.technacular.com/2008/12/27/misguiding-expert-comments-tata-nen-hottest-startups-contest-2008/ with what happened so far and would appreciate your support in dealing with this issue. NEN has to realize that they cannot just ignore their mistakes and have to own them. Praveen has come to help out with his post covering this issue: http://www.bangaloreinc.com/2009/01/12/tata-nen-hottest-startups-more-controversy-public-service-message/ but more support is needed.

By: Vikas Sah

Vikas Sah — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:23:08 +0000

We have suffered on account of bad expert comment on our startup listed on TATA NEN Hottest Startup. I have covered it is a detail post on my blog at : http://www.technacular.com/2008/12/27/misguiding-expert-comments-tata-nen-hottest-startups-contest-2008/

The whole concept is very good and encouraging but the devil is in details and TATA NEN did very little to ensure quality of at least the expert comments.

By: Vijay Kumar

Vijay Kumar — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:50:44 +0000

Its good that they have an open voting process which provides a chance for everyone to help choose the winners

Vijay Kumar
Manager - AdvocateKhoj
http://www.advocatekhoj.com

By: STARTUPCENTRAL

STARTUPCENTRAL — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:01:31 +0000

TATA NEN: Nominations by Force?…

I wrote earlier that contests that rank startups and that too via a public voting system are fundamentally flawed — read post here. A few more such incidents and Tata NEN Hottest Startups will the most rocking startup ranking contest ever in terms of…

By: Gaurav Mittal

Gaurav Mittal — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:01:07 +0000

This award is looking like a realty show; every one can vote for the nominees irrepective whether they know the founder, product/services and it’s value. People (Including us) are mass mailing to every one to vote irrespective we know or don’t know whom we send the mails. Even the people voting for the startups may/may not know the importance of this award for startups. But one thing, I can say that overall it is giving us an opportunity to showcase our product/services to our potential clients. It helps startups to gain confidence of the customers, who hesistate to buy product or services from a startups. My company (ITCONS e-Solutions - http://www.hotteststartups.in/viewandvote.do?method=fetch&businessFn=viewandvote&startupId=186) is also nominated for this Award; the moment we started sending mails to our potential clients, we started getting good response from potential clients whom we had been talking to for a long time and were considering them as closed chapter.

By: nagu

nagu — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:31:38 +0000

this is a good oppurtunity for start ups to showcase themselves..