Best Business Blog Posts in India: Weekly Edition 3

The weekly edition is helping me learn so many new things and I'm sure it would be the same for you.

You can see the earlier editions here.

• Vijay Anand on why Indian startups need to factor in the environment, understand the chaos and find a holistic way!

• Rajesh Lalwani on how companies offering pro-biotic products in India are under-utilizing the Internet in general, and social media in particular

• Atanu Dey brings in new perspectives on the dot-corn food versus fuel debate

• Sudhakar Ram, CMD of Mastek, writes on wave three of Indian outsourcing

• Kamla Bhatt writes on the state of corporate blogging in India

You can find the weekly edition cross posted herer too: Gautam Ghosh, Gaurav Mishra , Rajesh Lalwani

Best of Indian Business Blogs: Weekly Edition 2

Weekly edition 2 of "Best of Indian Business Blogs" is here. A big thanks to readers for the response to our first weekly edition. The weekly edition will carry more weight now that heavyweights like Kiruba and Gautam are joining us for selecting the very best of Indian business blog posts of the week.

So here it goes:

1) Kamla Bhatt interviews ItwoFS's Karthik Srinivasan on plagiarism in Indian film music

Karthik has built a website with a missionary zeal and he is looks at it as a hobby. That's what makes it such an interesting website, especially for music buffs.

2) Maninder on what's wrong with Idea Rocks India's MSN microsite

Big brands also make mistakes. In the mumbo jumbo of MBA jargons, often we miss some very simple things that we should have taken care of. Maninder points out to one such mistake

3) A three part series on startup financing in India: 1, 2, 3

Essential read for startups where Kartik Varma takes you along the financial angle of a startup. While on startups, Snigdha Sengupta makes some interesting points about angel funding in India.

4) Guest Post by Mayank Bidawatka, Head of Marketing at RedBus.in.on Pluggd In this post, Mayank demystifies SEO and SEM concepts

SEO and SEM are important tools to figure out the complexities of the internet. Some guys like Afzal Khan and Mani Karthik provide support as Freelancers and offer services to many clients across, USA, UK, Australia & Canada.

5) Sudipto Majumdar on the rise of gaming cafes in India and Sashi Reddi on the Indian gaming business.

Other takes by fellow panel members: Gaurav Mishra, Palin NingthoujamMany times an investment goes wrong. People need to refinance to backup their plans. However putting up your houses for sale is certainly no solution, and neither is debt consolidation.

Happy reading and do spread the word around.

Best of Indian Business Blogs: Weekly Edition 1

When Gaurav Mishra came out with the idea of a weekly digest of best business blog posts from India, I agreed immediately. I am sure that my readers would be happy to see the very best Indian business blogs picked out after a bit of brainstorming by a panel of eminent Bloggers.

If you missed out on my previous post announcing the weekly digest, to be published every Monday, here's the dope. We are attempting to highlight and promote link-worthy posts from Indian business bloggers in the form of a weekly digest. The panel members in our network include:- Gaurav Mishra, Rajesh Lalwani, Veerchand Bothra, Palin Ningthoujam and Yours Truly.

So here goes the top posts for the week:

1. Interview of the four entrepreneurs behind CMYK Health Boutique who plan a nationwide network of Spas - Four Fountains Spa. Rashmi Bansal, in her inimitable free wheeling way, takes you along the journey of entrepreneurship and its nitty gritties.
   

   My key take away ( as a chronic fence sitter!) was when Anurag says, " Nahin karne ke bahut bahhaane hai. Naukri chhodo, everything will fall in place"
   

2. Continuing on Startups, read these posts that came as reactions to Jason Calacanis' (Mahalo.com)original post - how to save money running a start-up.

   It's at Venturewoods; Pluggd.in; Start Up Dunia; Aditya Mishra
   

3. Namrata Balwani's post on what ails online advertising in India - My reactions and take aways from the post: Actually the marketers are wary of the measurement metrics for internet advertising. Even though the measurement metrics for the mainstream advertising has also its problems, it is a known dragon instead of an unknown dragon that the online advertising is perceived to be.
   

4. Ajay Shah links to Vijay Mahajan post on 'waiver of mass debt (WMD): It's a contentious issue between Politicians and Economists and warrants careful reading.
   

5. Manoj Dawane, Mauj Mobile, talks about the future of Indian mobile VAS industry. Manoj takes you along on the possibilities of Mobile services in India. With 228 million subscribers as on December, 2007, the possibilities looks limitless!
   

The top five have been selected out of many more and I am sure you'll be benefited by reading the posts as much as we have learnt from them. Do spread the word around among your friends too.

Weekly Digest of the Best of Indian Business Blogs

The best of Indian Business Blogs is an initiative to promote business blogging in India. We will attempt to highlight and promote link-worthy posts from Indian business bloggers in the form of a weekly digest that we publish on our respective blogs. The panel members in our network include:- Gaurav Mishra, Rajesh Lalwani, Veerchand Bothra, Palin Ningthoujam and Yours Truly.

The other panel members are trend setters in their areas and I look forward to working with them to bring out the very best of Indian Business Blogs. The panel members are:

1. Gaurav Mishra who sells cars for a living and blogs about marketing, technology and social media is a budding Social Media Guru
2. Rajesh Lalwani is CEO of BlogWorks, Strategic Social Media and Mainstream Marketing Firm
3. Veer Chand Bothra is at the center of India’s mobile boom, as MobilePundit, as organizer of Mumbai Mobile Mondays and as VP at NetCore Solutions
4. Palin Ningthoujam is a Marketing Communications Consultant & Social media enthusiast
   
5. Ranjan Varma,(it's me!) Personal Finance 2.01, Creator, India's first online weekly on personal finance.
   

The weekly digest is planned for every Monday starting from tomorrow. I am sure you would like it as much as we enjoyed going through the best Indian business posts of the week.