Archive for October, 2008

Wish the startup/tech community a Very Happy Diwali!

Here's wishing the Indian startup & technology community a very Happy Diwali on behalf of Webyantra. May the coming year be a smashing success for your and and your internet interests. The economic downturn notwithstanding, the festival of lights is a great way to cheer yourself up and get cracking with renewed vigour.

Move over Sequoia… here’s the silver lining to the credit crisis

For all the dull gloom that the Sequoia presentation seems to have unleashed on the technology startup community, there are others who beg to differ from its ominous forebodings. While certainly nowhere in the same league as Sequoia, Altos Ventures, a mid-tier VC firm based out of the Bay Area challenges the postulates of the now ...

BarCampDelhi5… terrific show for Delhi’s tech community

BarCampDelhi5 happened today at the IIT Delhi premises and the event was attended by more than 100 participants (not sure of the exact attendance?). This was the fifth time the unconference was being staged in Delhi and more two years down the line since we held the first one, the enthusiasm is live and kicking. ...

The Financial Crisis in Cartoons

In a atmosphere of financial gloom, laughter the best medicine... Financial Crisis in CartoonsView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: crisis financial)

Sequoia Capital’s Presentation on startups and the economic downturn

Make sure to check out this presentation. Its from Sequoia Capital and they are advising their portfolio companies on how to tackle the downturn caused by the economic crisis. Sequoia Capital on startups and the economic downturnView SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: downturn finance) Is it doomsday for tech startups? .... the preso does ...

SnappyFingers… search engine for Q & A

Snappy Fingers is a Bangalore based vertical search engine for Questions & Answers. It crawls and indexes FAQs across the internet, and provides search results in a easy to view Q&A format. People can use it for finding answers, or for conducting research. If you are wondering what they are crawling- their approach is ...

Seven Stages of Scaling Web Applications

Startups that are grappling with the challenges of scaling their webapp would do well to check out this awesome slide deck about scalability from the CTO of Rackspace, one of the high end web hosting companies. Delivered at the LinuxWorld conference in August earlier this year, the deck lays down a framework for webapp scalability, milestoning ...