Upcoming Competitions, Awards and Challenges

Here is a summary of some interesting opportunities for our readers:
1.The Great Indian Developer Award: “The Great Indian Developer Awards 2008 recognizes trailblazing individuals, technologies, and organizations contributing to the evangelism, productivity and innovation excellence of the Indian developer ecosystem.” [Source: PluGGd.in] Go here to vote.
2. TIE-Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge 2008: “Canaan Partners and TIE, today [...]

Where India Fares on the Internet Access Ladder

comScore recently released a report entitled, Digital World: The State of the Internet, which provides information regarding worldwide internet usage trends.  Here is an abstract of the report:
comScore’s DIGITAL WORLD: The State of the Internet provides an indispensable reference tool for any marketer, website publisher, or investor who needs to understand how the Internet is [...]

Virtual Stock Trading Portal Launched in India

As mentioned in pluGGd.in, a new virtual stock trading portal named Khelostocks has just been launched in India.  Khelostock’s mission is as follows:
Khelostocks is a portal dedicated to educating and empowering retail investors.  Khelostocks helps budding investors to experience the dynamics of real time stocks trading at zero cost and zero risk basis. Here willing [...]

Op-Ed: Arrogance today, humility tomorrow

A curious micro-debate seems to be emerging in the blogosphere on what is more critical to a social entrepreneur’s success — their humility or arrogance. This is an interesting discussion, as both qualities provide varied paths to success and failure.
For example, often times organizations are inextricably tied to the charismatic, larger than life personalities of [...]

DhanaX-cellence?

A new Bangalore startup, DhanaX aims to be the primary lending platform for low-income borrowers. While at first glance it may look simply like a Kiva.org knockoff, with 70% of India still living in the rural areas and current access to such microfinance platforms still limited, another player in this field may not be that [...]