On 10/12/06, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Glad for emotive reasons? Or do you think the start-up sector is
missing a trick?
>(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.
And one would hope things have moved on since there. I'm just probing.
Would like to get my head round the environment. But I do think the
possibility for the right idea to cheaply and easily getting 10s of
thousand of users is a valuable cog.
Udhay
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