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Should businesses in India innovate, imitate of adapt technology?
Kaushik Gala points out that tech entrepreneurs need to think beyond hi-tech. Innovative business models based on adoption of existing technology and sheer imitation offer much larger opportunities.
How to build a high quality engineering team – Excerpt from Shirish Deodhar’s new book
(Recently, Shirish Deodhar, a well-known figure in the Pune technology and startup community, published a book, From Entreprenurs to Leaders, which makes the point that while the last 10 years saw the rise of several billion dollar software services companies in India, the next 10 years will see the rise of billion dollar software product [...]
Do a do-it-yourself Masters degree in CS with Parag Shah
Parag Shah talks about how you can get for free the same education that a student of a Masters degree in the US could get. He is planning on going through it himself, and hopes you will join him.
Mentor India internship for tech students: entrance exam on 4th July
For the last few years, Pune startup KQ Infotech has been running Mentor India, an year-long, free, internship program for technology students, aimed at giving students a very strong base in systems programming, web development, or web design and animation. The next batch of Mentor India is starting in July, and the entrance exam is [...]
Pune – A Global Leader In Green/Alternative Energy R&D – List Of Key Players
(This article was posted by Amit Paranjape on his blog, and is reproduced here with permission.) Call it by whatever name: Green Energy /Sustainable Solutions /Cleantech /Alternative Energy /etc. The quest for environment friendly, cheap and renewable energy is probably the most important technology problems of the 21st century. Various options are being under development for [...]
Answers to PuneTech’s “Do you understand copyrights and patents?” quiz
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. [...]
Top Ways in which Persistent and Anand Deshpande have benefitted the Pune Tech community
Persistent Systems, one of Pune’s most well known companies, is finally going public. This is an occasion which many Punekars have been waiting for, and it makes the ‘success’ of Persistent official. However, Persistent Systems, and its CEO Anand Deshpande, mean much more to the tech community. In the last 10 years, they have been [...]
C-DAC-ACTS Pune offers free IT courses for underprivileged minority students
To increase the opportunities available to poor minority students the Ministry of Minority Affairs of the Government of India has started a new initiative to offer job oriented training programmes through various institutes throughout India. Pune’s C-DAC, one of the premiere Government institutes for R&D in the information technology sector, will provide this training via [...]
Volunteer for TEDxPune, help to put up the best Technology, Entertainment and Design show in Pune
Update: At this meeting (which is now over), it was decided to form various sub-committees that will work on different aspects of TEDxPune. If you’re interested,
How many innovative small businesses are there in India?
(This essay was written by Kaushik Gala, is taken from his website, where you can find more such essays by him, and is reproduced here with permission. Kaushik is a Business Development Manager at Pune-based startup incubator Venture Center. Please send any comments to galatime@gmail.com) I want to estimate the number of innovative enterprises in [...]