Daily Archives: March 9, 2009

Many many moons ago , I did  market research on internet start ups (excluding HW/Embedded domains is here) from India.. I did this as I was hearing about web2.0 quite a bit these days and how many in India are jumping on the entrepreneurship wagon . Some interesting things I found out are :

1. Its imp to keep in mind that entrepreneurship is growing in India. While this is all good, I see that the main problem here is there aren’t many successful enterpreneurs in India and so there is very limited mentor ship going on there. One can definitely benefit to some extent from organizations like TIE (www.tiesv.org) , I wonder how many are really taking advantage of these ?
2. Most operate in vertical domains
3. Core development comp or disruptive tech only handful..
4. I hardly came across any companies which deals with energy and infrastructure..such a serious pb in India..
5.  I see way too many “me too” companies with no differentiation at all…
6. 99% are web2.0 or service oriented and are commn driven..

India Web2.0 Startups : Market Segments and Analysis

Click here for the list: web2_companies_india1. It might be outdated , poorly categorized and by no means its a complete list..but represents the trend.

Any comments? feel free to add any companies you know of by posting in comments section.