Archive for August, 2006

do hot chicks a good seed make?

Posted by deap on August 31st, 2006

I know….this does not sound like a very serious, thought-provoking topic, but a fellow co-founder and I were having a discussion today about successful seeds: basically, social triggers that act as a catalyst to help get an online community started. One of the things he mentioned that might help out (and in fact, has been […]

coverage in businessworld mag

Posted by deap on August 29th, 2006

Hey folks, we were recently featured in the Sept. 4th issue of Businessworld Magazine (the cover story is about India’s new billionaires - no, sadly, we missed that list by about a billion bucks).
The article basically profiles 6 internet startups in India (the others are sixer.tv, yaari.com, humsabka.com humsubka.com, onyomo.com, and wahindia.com), and gathers our […]

feelin’ tired reviews burrp!

Posted by deap on August 23rd, 2006

Iqbal Gandham of Feelin’ Tired reviews burrp! here. Many of the features that Iqbal has mentioned are actually very soon to come, sans map integration. Our discussion of maps can be found here.  The 21 million dollar question is always “well, how do you make money?” Banner ads from the big internet players that obviously […]

burrp coverage on celestri.org

Posted by anand on August 18th, 2006

We got some kind words on celestri.org. As Manish Jain of celestri rightly points out, it is all about unbiased reviews from the people, for the people.