BinaryDay – A little better day

It has been more than three months now since I blogged about my plan of leaving the job for a startup life. In this time I have been working upon a no nonsense search engine for finding and comparing the prices of books across 10 online book stores in India. I am really happy to [...]

Binaryday had been started to act as a place holder for my website about used mobiles. That project did not really take off as expected even though the site has gone on to become the #1 site for second hand mobiles in India. There are not that many people buying or selling used mobiles in [...]

You may be surprised to see me writing about Free CNA training. However I have been working on the topic for quite some time now and I have been really impressed with the concept of free cna training in the USA and I thought it will be nice to share the concept on this blog [...]

I had recently written about most viewed video on youtube. Related research shows that there is a massive demand for free bollywood movies onine. There are many websites that allow users to download free bollywood movies. There is also no dearth of websites to watch online bollywood movies. I have been trying to figure out [...]

My project for second hand mobiles is doing quite well. I have got more than 70 second hand mobile phones for sale already. While I await the second hand mobiles market to pick up, I am starting work on a price comparison site for mobiles.
As the first step of this new project, I was researching about [...]

I have been working on contacthello for the last 1 month. The basic idea of contacthello is very simple. It will allow people to  sell second hand mobiles   and  buy second hand mobiles online.
contacthello was very simple to build. Actually this consists of hardly 3 php pages only. The main challenge will be getting [...]

You might have noticed that this blog has not been updated in quite sometime. That is because I have been busy with developing my new website that will allow users to buy or sell used mobile phones in India.
I always refer to the used goods as second hand goods. Most of the people I know [...]

I am not sure if Techies in India have realized the oppurtunity that the iphone store presents to us. I think this is one ares that is begging to be dominated by us. Surprisingly I have not seen much enthusiasm about the same in the Indian blogosphere.
Think about it. The apps store has sold apps [...]

SMS prices might have dropped. However who does not like an option to send free sms messages? Here we profile some websites that allow you to send free sms in india. Bookmark this page now. You will need more than 1 of these sites as they have a restriction on number of free sms you [...]

Google adsense is a boon for many webmasters and bloggers like me. It allows us to monetize small, niche websites like this. I have previously talked about people who have earned million dollars through adsense. However I was really worried after seeing this post as it seems to suggest that making money through adsense is [...]

Have you ever thought that you need to be in a particular sector to get venture funding? If yes then take a look at the list below.
Instablogs is a network of blogs. It has been funded from Vishal Gondal, the Founder and CEO of Indiagames. Instablogs is the first blog network to get funding. [...]

This newyork times article compares mukesh ambani to mahtma gandhi. The comparison may be a little far fetched. However I recommend this article as it gives a really detailed view into the life of mr ambani and had a highly inspiring effect on me.

Negative questions are too powerful.
What if people upload porn? Youtube dies there
Why will people submit links and vote for them when they don’t get anything in return? death of digg
How will you ever monetize search while microsoft and yahoo have not managed it? google dies there
Do you think there is a market for maybe [...]

This essay is derived from a talk at the 2006 startup school at Stanford by Ycombinator.
Nice and inspiring lessons if you are serious for starting a startup.

Came across this wonderful interview (on Guy Kawasaki’s blog) with Darren Rowse who talks about making money with blogging.
I am sure you gonna get something out of it….

My friend Yathindran came across these links which keep a track of latest postings on some of the famous blogs related to startups and venture capital.
For startup news checkout
http://startups.alltop.com/
and for venture capital news checkout
http://venturecapital.alltop.com/
Even if you are not interested in this stuff, do give it a shot. You will sure find something of interest.

I have learned a lot in the last 2 days at Barcamp Bangalore. The most shocking revelation was the fact that twitter is hot in India. I have been aware of the popularity of twitter in US. However somehow I have been 100% confident that people in India do not use twitter that much.
Just in [...]

I am back from my first Barcamp. I had flown from Mumbai to attend the barcamp at bangalore and obviously I had high expectations. I was not disappointed at all as I met some fantabulous people.
However I was really disappointed to see a lot of sessions on trivial issues like Kamasutra, dating and Palmistry [...]

Many a times I feel like an alien in the normal world. I am sure it will be the same for most of other entrepreneurs as well. Hardly anyone understands our thought process. However at Barcamp Bangalore I realized that, I am not the only alien around. There is a world of aliens. The last [...]

When I talk about entrepreneurship and leaving my job to start something new, nobody seems to understand me. Everyone keeps wondering why the hell I want to leave a secure job and bright future to run after a stupid idea. Hence I could tatally relate to the following para on a blog
“…no matter what your [...]