Written by navin on May 31st, 2010 in In Depth, Interview 3 Comments
Tags: entrepreneurs, POCC, startups, web, web-2.0, Websites
ShopSocial.ly is a Pune-based startup that launched a couple of weeks back and immediately got coverage from both TechCrunch and GigaOm – which is a major achievement for any startup.
To give PuneTech readers some insights into what it takes to build and launch a startup like this out of Pune, we talked to a bunch [...]
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Written by amit on May 21st, 2010 in In Depth, Pune City No Comments
Tags: Pune City, science, technolog
Pune is well-known in India and internationally for being a hub of education and research. It has a wide range of academic & research institutions spanning various domains in science, technology, medicine, agriculture, arts, humanities, law, finance, etc. This blog article is an attempt to list out these various institutions.
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Written by navin on April 6th, 2010 in In Depth, Interview 3 Comments
Tags: backup, enterprise, funding, startup, storage
We now have in our midst a startup success story that will hopefully inspire a 100 new software product startups in Pune.
PuneTech and the Pune Open Coffee Club both started about 2 years ago, and the steadily increasing memberships and vitality of these communities points to a very strong startup community in Pune. However, throughout [...]
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Written by navin on March 22nd, 2010 in In Depth, Miscellaneous 7 Comments
Tags: copyrights, Intellectual property, patents
Last year, we had run a quiz on copyrights and patents, consisting of a number of day-to-day examples where copyright or patent issues were involved. These were examples of the kind that an average PuneTech reader might run into. Interestingly, a very large fraction of those who took the quiz, got lots of answers wrong. [...]
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Written by navin on March 18th, 2010 in In Depth, punetech 11 Comments
Tags: editorial, policies, punetech
Yesterday, on the occasion of Persistent Systems‘ IPO, we ran an unabashedly positive post about Persistent and Anand Deshpande’s contributions to the Pune technology community. This resulted in some eyebrows raised about the appropriateness of the article. There were two concerns:
The timing of the article, while an IPO is in progress, could be inappropriate
Writing such [...]
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Written by navin on December 15th, 2009 in Event Report, In Depth, Technology 1 Comment
Tags: conferences, dynamic programming languages, event reports, Events, java, programming
Dhananjay Nene writes an indepth technical report (along with links to presentations) on the IndicThreads conference on Java technologies held in Pune in December 2009.
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Written by navin on October 5th, 2009 in In Depth, Technology, punechips 3 Comments
Tags: asic, EDA, Events, punechips, semiconductor, soc, verification
(This is a guest post for PuneTech by Arati Halbe, who has close to 9 years experience in ASIC front end design and verification. Post silicon validation and FPGA prototyping is her recent area of interest and expertise. Arati has worked with Wipro Technologies and Conexant Systems. Arati did her B.E. from University of Pune [...]
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Written by navin on October 1st, 2009 in In Depth, Technology 16 Comments
Tags: cloud computing, data-center, Technology, virtualization
Today’s post is a guest post by Suhas Kelkar. Suhas leads the Innovation & Incubation Lab at BMC Software India. Prior to BMC he was the Vice President of Product Management at Digite, an enterprise software company in the field of Project Portfolio Management. See his linked-in profile for details.
In the recent Hype Cycle for [...]
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Written by navin on September 22nd, 2009 in In Depth, Miscellaneous 1 Comment
Tags: entrepreneurs, government, incubators, startups, venturecenter
Venture Center, Pune, has put out this guide to all the various government bodies/funds/schemes that technology startups my apply for to get funded. Must read for all tech startups in India.
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Written by navin on September 19th, 2009 in In Depth, Interview No Comments
Interview with Arun Prabhudesai, the blogger behind trak.in, and the CEO of hover.in.
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