Comments on: MySpace Launches in India http://startupcentral.in/2008/04/myspace-crowds-in/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:01:06 +0530 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TS http://startupcentral.in/2008/04/myspace-crowds-in/#comment-160 TS Sun, 20 Apr 2008 11:02:19 +0000 http://startupcentral.wordpress.com/?p=153#comment-160 Hi Snigdha, Good to know that a blog as this exists :). I hope I got your name right? "....with these heavyweights are a bunch of startups...And all of them are expect to make money from advertising. I’m not seeing much light, at least for start-ups, at the end of the tunnel." You're right on spot. Infact, as per the Revenue Stats that I was presented with (a couple of months back), the Country's largest, and by far the BIGGEST Social Network, hardly touches the $1.5M revenue mark/year. VC's pumping in 10 times the amount to acquire 'em, makes no sense at all. And the ones, trying to make it big, just by COPY PASTING stuff, simply need to Shut Shop. I got some stuff over at TS.... kind of a spoof surrounding the latest Buzz (in the END).... :) Hi Snigdha,

Good to know that a blog as this exists :) . I hope I got your name right?

“….with these heavyweights are a bunch of startups…And all of them are expect to make money from advertising. I’m not seeing much light, at least for start-ups, at the end of the tunnel.”

You’re right on spot. Infact, as per the Revenue Stats that I was presented with (a couple of months back), the Country’s largest, and by far the BIGGEST Social Network, hardly touches the $1.5M revenue mark/year.

VC’s pumping in 10 times the amount to acquire ‘em, makes no sense at all. And the ones, trying to make it big, just by COPY PASTING stuff, simply need to Shut Shop.

I got some stuff over at TS…. kind of a spoof surrounding the latest Buzz (in the END)…. :)

]]> By: Himanshu Sheth http://startupcentral.in/2008/04/myspace-crowds-in/#comment-162 Himanshu Sheth Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:54:33 +0000 http://startupcentral.wordpress.com/?p=153#comment-162 Hey Snigdha, One thing which is most scary here is Venture Funding.For example: In your article, take away Sequoia from MingleBox and it is dead (: I still remember BCB2 when Kavita Iyer was there and she spoke about Minglebox, and guess what after nearly so many years(close to 1.5 years AFAIK), MingleBox is still in the Alpha Stage :) I have done testing on MingleBox(when I get time) and I tried this: Keep the Mouse Pointer in between any two sections like Me, Friends, Campus, Movies etc and the mouse pointer keeps on Toggling :) Terrible piece of design (: Yaari, dont think if it is a wesbite :) As you have told, it looks B Grade,just like a Mithun Chakrvarthy film :) Same is the case in Business Networking sites, One missing feature in LinkedIn and we have a LinkedIn+ (Like Naymz) on the internet.... Such websites get funded and many times, they even die out; So, they make the big news but except that there is nothing much in them :) -Himanshu Sheth Hey Snigdha,
One thing which is most scary here is Venture Funding.For example: In your article, take away Sequoia from MingleBox and it is dead (: I still remember BCB2 when Kavita Iyer was there and she spoke about Minglebox, and guess what after nearly so many years(close to 1.5 years AFAIK), MingleBox is still in the Alpha Stage :) I have done testing on MingleBox(when I get time) and I tried this: Keep the Mouse Pointer in between any two sections like Me, Friends, Campus, Movies etc and the mouse pointer keeps on Toggling :) Terrible piece of design (:

Yaari, dont think if it is a wesbite :) As you have told, it looks B Grade,just like a Mithun Chakrvarthy film :)

Same is the case in Business Networking sites, One missing feature in LinkedIn and we have a LinkedIn+ (Like Naymz) on the internet….

Such websites get funded and many times, they even die out; So, they make the big news but except that there is nothing much in them :)

-Himanshu Sheth

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