Manar Hussain wrote: [ on 10:48 PM 10/12/2006 ]
Would it be fair to say that: (1) these start-ups are mostly focused on india (where one presumes there is are plenty of opportunities)
No, approximately *none* of the startups around are looking solely at the India market. I would be very glad to be proved wrong on this.
(2) Word of mouth, catalysed through blogs, as a means of getting 10k-100k people to trial you is not a viable hope within India, and/or even if you make a splash through word of mouth online you are unlikely to get much local PR and media coverage?
You're assuming that "getting 10k-100k people to trial you" is a desirable state of affairs, which again implies that you have a set of assumptions about what kind of startups these might be. :)
That said, you're probably right that it's not that easy. Not impossible, though. I think we easily had 10k users from India before the "official" launch of unimobile.com, in 1999.
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